A review of the Sony T10 digital camera
Sony have created another wonder in the Cybershot T10. It has great style combined with fantastic features and is a great fashion accessory in a range of vibrant and trendy colours. Design |
| The Sony T10 is a cool and extremely stylish upgrade to the T9 with very minimal changes to the aesthetics look. It is a very solid camera for such a slender and slim model and feels quite sturdy with dimensions of 89.7mm (w) x 54.9mm (h) x 20.6mm (d) and a weight of 165g fully loaded, it fits very snug in the palm of your hand. Front on it looks very different to the average digital compact camera with the non-retractable lens being really small at the top right corner and the slim flash next to it. There is a raised silver brushed chrome panel that horizontally dominates the front with a vertical groove on the left side which acts as a finger grip. This is the lens cover and slides up and down to power up the camera. On top is the shutter release button and the power button. The back is where most of the action is, with the 2.5” LCD dominating the space with its impressive 230,000 pixels. The mode selector switch is just above the screen with the zoom rocker to the right hand side, the menu and LCD buttons are just below with the d-panel underneath. There are four separate directional buttons on the d-panel rather than a circle of buttons which we prefer as you can often press the wrong option, with the ok button in the middle. At the bottom there is a delete button and the print button. The memory card and battery are inserted under the flap on the right side. On the whole a solid and ultra-compact digital camera and easy to slip into any pocket or clutch bag! The T10 is available in 4 colours: Silver, Black, Pink and White. |
| Features |
| The Sony DSC T10 has a great line up of features with it’s 7.2 mega pixels and 3x optical zoom you can be assured that you will achieve some great snaps. Sony claim that there is double ‘anti-blur’ technology on board with Super SteadyShot Optical Image Stabiliser and High Sensitivity so images should be of a high standard with clarity and sharpness. There is 56mb of internal memory so when your memory card is full you can switch to use this instead. It is more than the average camera so make the most of it. Movies can be shot at 30fps and using the LCD makes it easy to frame them and follow the subject whilst filming. In shooting movie mode we noticed the zoom to be impressive and moves very smoothly. |
| Performance |
| Quite a quick mover with the startup to shoot time being around 2secs which meant as soon as you’ve slid the lens cover down your on your way, and you don’t have to find the power button either. Although it doesn’t have many manual controls, it does have a range of ISO settings, however don’t set them too high as image noise does tend to creep in at around ISO 400 with ISO 200 being the highest with clarity. The flash is very powerful and does tend to wash the subject out if too close and the macro setting does provide some great results. With the software included you can produce calendars and postcards so the possibilities don’t end at great snaps, you can share your images in many other ways. |
| Overall Opinion |
| A great digital camera for a great and reasonable price and we saw some great results from it. There are similar digicams to the Sony Cybershot T10 with more manual controls, but on the whole it does a good job and for a reasonable price. |
| By Hayley Malyon |
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Pros + 7.2 mega pixels + SteadyShot Stabiliser + Great slimline, stunning body |
Cons - Lack of manual controls |
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Picture Quality 8/10
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Battery Life 8/10
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Setup Simplicity 8/10
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Build Quality 8/10
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Ease of Use 8/10
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Overall Rating 
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7/12/2006
at 4:10:10pm
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