SONY CYBER-SHOT DSC-T700
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The Cyber-shot T700 is a solid, sharp, and uniquely designed camera in Sony’s T series of compact digital cameras.
I remember that it was a time when the negative effects of ultra-small pitch CCD sensors in almost fully automatic compact digital cameras were being loudly talked about.
When this camera was released in 2008, I personally used the LEICA M8 and OLYMPUS E-1 and had little interest in compact digital cameras, but I was drawn to the design and bought it.
The focal length starts at 35mm, which is the standard for this era, but it’s not wide enough for wide-angle enthusiasts.I’d like to see a successor model that starts at 28mm or 24mm, but a functional successor model has been released, but it follows the design. It is a pity that the model was never released.
The lens is a Carl Zeiss, but ghosts appear when there is backlight, and due to the limitations of the sensor, the resolution of the images taken is not particularly high, so you can hardly notice it.
The back is occupied by an LCD display and there are no buttons. The display is a touch panel, and shooting settings are made here.The poor response of the touch panel is a sign of the times.
On the top of the body, there are a minimum number of buttons: power button, shutter, playback, and zoom. It’s a difficult camera to hold, so I wouldn’t say it’s easy to use. When you lower the front slide cover, the power turns on and you can take pictures.
With a 10-megapixel CCD sensor, the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO sensitivity are basically left up to the camera, so there’s almost no room for adjustment, and even if adjustments were possible, I don’t think I’d want to actively use them with this touch panel.
The image quality is decent during the day and hopeless at night, which is the standard for compact digital cameras of this era.
At ISO400, there is a lot of noise that is difficult to see.
The built-in memory is ample at 4GB, so you don’t need an external storage medium, but if you want to use it, you’ll need to prepare a Memory Stick Duo. Sony’s proprietary memory card is one of the storage media that lost out to SD cards.
I got this one when it was on sale, and it’s in pretty good condition, and I still like it. A while back, I saw one with lots of scratches in the junk section of a camera store, but I rarely see it these days. It’s a camera I’m glad I kept instead of selling it. When this camera was released in the 2000s, compact digital cameras were undergoing model changes every six months, which was a scary time. Among them, I think the T700’s exterior perfection is by far the best.
Specification
| 項目 | 値 | 備考 |
| Camera Effective Pixels | 10.1-Megapixels | |
| Lens | Vario-Tessar (Lens construction: 12 elements in 10 groups (4 aspherical lenses/1 prism)) f=6.18-24.7mm（F3.5-4.6） | 35mm equivalent 35-140mm |
| Image sensor | 1/2.3″ CCD sensor | |
| View Finder | – | |
| Back LCD Size | 3.5 inch | |
| Recorded Media | Memory Stick Duo | Built-in recording memory 4GB |
| Battery | NP-FD1 | Compatible battery*1 |
| Size(mm) | W x H x D 95 × 58.4 × 16.4 | |
| Weight(g) | 約160(including memory card and battery) |
- Model History
| Model name | DSC-T1 | DSC-T100/200/300 | DSC-T700 | DSC-T900 |
| Focal length | 38-114 | 35-175 | 35-140 | 35-140 |
| Sensor Pixels | 510 | 810/810/1010 | 1010 | 1210 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.4 | 1/2.5(2.3) | 1/2.3 | 1/2.3 |
| Back LCD Size | 2.5 | 2.5/3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Back LCD Pixels | 21.1 | 23 | 92.1 | 92.1 |
| Battery | NP-FT1 | NP-FG1/NP-FD1 | NP-FD1 | NP-FD1 |
| Recorded Media | MS Duo | MS Duo | MS Duo | MS Duo |
| Release date | 2003 | 2007/2008 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Body color | Silver Black | Silver Black Red | Silver Gray Red Pink Gold | Silver Black Red Brown |
Options
- Plastic hard case
- Strap
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- 2024.04.10:Update
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