My Gear

This is my gear.


Oh come on, what I meant was my current gear for my photographing. Here is it, my Sony Cybershot DSC-W110.

This is not a review on W110 but my personal introduction about my personal camera.

DSC-W110 is a pretty cool black simple consumer camera from SONY.


The famous Cybershot is a line of digital camera made by Sony. The Cybershot is well known for its proprietary lithium ion battery pack, the trademark Carl Zeiss lenses and it's awesome aesthetics design. All Cybershot models have a DSC prefix in their names, which is an acronym for "Digital Still Camera".

Here are some of the key features of my DSC-W110:

7.2 Mega pixels.


Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar, from the famous German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices founded in 1846.


4x Optical zoom. Not very useful except you want to shoot some birds in the sky BLURRY.

2.5'' lcd monitor, which is big enough for photos viewing after shots.


Very High Sensitivity of ISO 3200. As you can see there are 2 photos taken in weak fluorescent light. ISO of 3200 results sharp but NOISY image.


Face Detection. It recognizes faces in picture, automatically adjusting the focus, exposure, white balance, and flash setting in order to obtain natural portrait. This is quite a useful function during portrait shooting. But, to ensure that this function work perfectly please shoot at something with FACE. Otherwise, it won't work. Here's an example.

Never shoot at FACELESS VOID.


Smile Shutter. It automatically throws the shutter (even when in standby) when your subject smiles. The key point is just make sure your subject is smiling. Here's a very good example.

Now you know how powerful the President of USA is. His simple facial expression can even change the decision of a camera.


The quality of photos from this camera is average. They are okay and acceptable under normal condition. With user friendly interface and functions, W110 is really a nice camera for consumer who doesn't care much on the photo quality. The data transferring is also pretty easy with MemoryStickProDuo or simply a USB cable.


However, for me, it's still not a good camera.

First of all, the color tone of the photo is a little bit soft. I prefer a higher contrast photo.

Even the tasty chicken wings become so pale to be eaten. :-S


And, there will be blueish indoor photo under fluorescent light under normal (auto) white balance setting. Another white balance setting such as "natural fluorescent light 2" may produce better images but for me they are still SUX.

Seeing this photo, you may think that my room's wall is painted in blue color. No, it's white.


Poor outdoor photo, especially under strong sunlight.


However, these all can be forgiven as it's just a compact consumer camera. It's for simple and normal use for any consumer from any level. Actually, it still catch my eye of it's light weight and also it's pretty simple and nice appearance design.

Especially with the FREAKING tripod.



P.S.: Thanks Ichibansheng for assisting me in most of the product shootings of my W110. Thanks!