The A is a more full-featured, less compact alternative to the spritely PowerShot SD , though its position in the A series between the very similar 5-megapixel A and the 6-megapixel A seems to exist solely to fill the price gap between the two. You zoom via a jog dial that's concentric with the shutter button. Rotating the dial is easier when shooting with two hands; still, one-handed shooting is entirely practical.
The coarse, 85,pixel, 2. Canon's usual A-series mode dial sits atop the camera and, like the conveniently arranged array of buttons on the camera back, can be operated with your right thumb.
Together, these controls make the A responsive and easy to navigate. For example, you can spin the mode dial to switch between auto, programmed, manual, aperture priority, or shutter priority, plus scene modes including Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Stitch Assist, and Movie. Another 10 scene modes are available at the SCN notch on the dial.
Beginners and less experienced shooters will likely opt for program autoexposure, switch to full auto, or choose one of the scene modes.
Metering options include evaluative, center-weighted, or spot. It's accompanied by a print-sharing button and a Disp key that varies the amount of information displayed on the LCD.
Up and down keys toggle flash and macro focus modes, respectively. Intermediate and advanced shooters will love Canon's user-friendly exposure controls. The 35mm-tomm 35mm-camera equivalent zoom lens focuses to as close as 2 inches using lamp-assisted and one- or nine-point autofocus or manual focus. Finally, you can shoot movies at a maximum of x pixels at 30fps. In line with the A's enthusiast fan base, this camera supports add-on lenses that affix to a bayonet mount under the plastic collar around the lens.
Current options include 1. Its features include an It is able to take pictures in 4K 3, x 2,pixel resolution and record up to 3 hours and 10 minutes of video in high definition i resolution and has a 3. Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Show Other Languages. Author: Gordon Smith and 3 other contributors. Create a Guide I Have This. Replacement Guides Back Casing. Keep a forefinger on the zoom lever that encircles the shutter release button and the HXV powers through its 50x optical zoom range from wide angle to telephoto in around 4 seconds.
The alternative method is to use the manual zoom ring as already mentioned, though this is slower to respond than using the zoom lever. However the upshot is that it's slightly easier to arrive at more precise framing.
Next to the power button is a raised, ridged-edged shooting mode button with an action that is stiff enough to prevent the user accidentally slipping from one setting to the next in the thick of it.
There are 11 options on this dial. We get the creative quartet of program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual mode settings plus Sony's now ubiquitous Sweep Panorama function, whereby the user pans through an arc as directed by the on-screen arrows - the resulting elongated shot automatically stitched together in camera.
It's both very effective and very easy to use. Next to this setting we get two memory recall modes, marked 1 and 2, which, as the camera describes recalls registered settings and resumes shooting.
Also on the dial is a dedicated High Definition video mode for up to x pixels clips at 50 frames per second progressive capture, which complements the dedicated video record button top right of the backplate.
While a press of the latter begins a recording despite the fact that you might have a stills shooting mode selected on the dial at the time, a press of the Menu button when in video mode accesses a variety of options. Here we can not only adjust video resolution and vary the frame rate, but also switch from intelligent auto video recording to applying a specific scene mode, as we more usually can with stills photography. There's the ability to filter out external wind noise too, while another bonus is that full use of the optical zoom is provided in movie mode, as is automatic focus adjustment if you alter framing or swap subjects mid sequence.
Scene modes are up next and there are 16 user selectable options on the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HXV, covering everything from the usual portraits - including a separate DSLR-style 'background defocus' option - to shooting landscapes by night and even handheld; pet, beach, snow and fireworks mode round out the more usual suspects.
Rounding off the shooting mode options are both the scene and subject recognizing and thereby automatically adjusting Intelligent Auto mode, plus Superior Auto mode. The latter is, if you will, your in-camera version of Photoshop, adjusting images on the fly. This means that there is a little additional automatic processing happening in this mode, so it's slower to get an image from capture to card than when shooting in, say, Program mode.
But it is a welcome aid in trickier conditions such as low light and does allow the user to point and shoot rather than having to find and change the ISO setting manually. Incidentally the sensitivity range is broad and stretches from ISO 80 to ISO 12, with many incremental points in between. Our only moan is that we could have really done with a dedicated ISO button marked as such. There is a 'custom' button provided alongside the one for the 'Function' menu just behind the shutter release on the top plate, with a large choice of dedicating this to one of 21 different settings, including the ISO.
The new Function button provides quicker access to up to 12 of the camera's key settings, depending on the current shooting mode. You can also customise this menu to suit your needs.
With the shutter release button and the zoom lever that encircles it comfortably sloping forward at the top of the handgrip, that's it for the HXV's top plate.
This means that, whilst very useful in itself compared with a fixed monitor, it is best used for achieving those otherwise awkward low or high angle shots than anything more ambitious.
The alternative as mentioned earlier is to use the EVF ranged directly above the LCD, complete with a dioptre control for glasses wearers, though as this is both smaller and has a lower resolution k dots , we found it easy to overlook.
In terms of controls the back of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HXV looks slightly sparse mainly due to the small dimensions of the actual buttons, though in fact most of the essentials are here. A dedicated movie button is located to the right of the viewfinder, while a DSLR-like jog dial sits alongside that, where it automatically falls under the thumb of the right hand as the camera is gripped. Pressing the down button whilst in the Intelligent Auto modes brings up some on-screen 'photo creativity' options if the user is shooting in one of the auto modes.
Selecting this option on the pad, for example, allows users to darken or lighten the image by flicking the jog dial left or right. Colour can also be adjusted in the same manner and the picture effect options previously detailed can be flicked through via a virtual mode dial. It reminds us a lot of the Live Guide feature on Olympus Pen cameras; namely it allows newcomers to exert some personal control over the outcome of their shots without knowing anything about exposure values, aperture settings and so on, with adjustments shown on screen live and in real time before the shutter release button has even been pressed.
A press of the former opens a number of shooting and setup folders, with white text on a black background aiding visibility.
The seven shooting folders allow users to select image size, ratio and quality, plus features like SteadyShot, long exposure and high ISO noise reduction - all in fact activated as a default. The Settings folder allows you to tweak the HXV to your way of working, while the other four folders contain the various Wi-fi, Applications, Playback, and Setup options. You can choose where to transmit the images to either smartphone or computer and view them on a compatible TV.
You can use WPS Push to force locate a hot spot, access settings, edit the device name, display the MAC address or format all settings if you wish. Pressing the Function button when you're looking at the pictures you've taken allows you to quickly send images to your smartphone or tablet.
One cool feature of the wi-fi is being able to link the camera to your smart phone using the PlayMemories Mobile "Smart Remote" app. You can then use the phone as a remote so those outstretched arm 'selfies' will be a thing of the past.
The HXV is also the latest Sony camera to feature NFC Near Field Communication technology the same technology that's used for mobile payments , which allows you to connect it to a compatible internet enabled device or another NFC-enabled camera by simply tapping them together.
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