Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera Review

January 28, 2007

Sony-DSC-S40 Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera Review Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera is going to be a trendsetter among the Cameras that are newly launched. It looks very rich in silver colour gradient. It is now supported with very new techniques in all the aspects of the camera such as, Resolution, Display screen, Slide Shows, and the three newly developed still image formats. This model is compact. The camera can be operated in O S like Mac, PC. Accessories like 2 nos of AA Batteries, Software required, USB Cable, Wrist Strap come bundled with Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera. The major advantage of this Camera is its Slide show feature. The play back magnification of the Camera is 5 x. It has an auto Self-timer of 10 sec. Auto Shut off facility enables you to shut it down automatically by time setting. It has a built -in microphone so that, you can record sounds also. Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera has a resolution of 4.1Mega pixels. The image sensor type is CCD with the size of 1/2.7 in. and is with a resolution of 1280 X 960 Pixels. The still image formats accessed in this Camera are DCF, EXIF 2.2, JPEG, and DPOF. It has 3 types of shooting modes. They are: Landscape, Twilight and Beach/Snow. Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera has a good compression mode. The digital, Optical Zoom facilities are of 6 x and 5 x respectively. The camera has two types of Focus system, namely, Multi-AF, and Single AF. The maximum Focal length is 15.3mm and minimum is 12 cm. The max Macro Focus Range: 900 Cm and the minimum is 12 Cm. The screen in is LCD with a size of 1.5 Inches, and a resolution of 76800 Pixels. The ISO system ranges 80, 100, 200, 400,and Auto. Both manual and automatic Exposure is available. The max and min apertures are F 2.8 & F 5.1 respectively. The Camera has two White balances, Automatic and Preset. It has different flash modes as Auto, Forced Flash, and Slow Sync. The memory storage capacity of Sony DSC S40 Digital Camera is 32 MB. The digital Video formats are MPEG-1, MPEG. The Video Capture Resolution is 640 X 480 Pixels and the Video Capture Speed is 30 Frames Per Second.