Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-WX9 with 5x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens

The Sony Cyber-shot WX9 is a slick new compact camera, announced by Sony at this year’s CES trade show. It’s packing a brand new sensor, a glorious 3-inchLCD, and 1080/60i video recording… all for an MSRP of $154.99. When the WX9 lands in our labs later this year, we’re hoping the camera’s performance does justice to its specs.

                                                                                   Original Price: $199.00

                                                                                  Amazon Price: $154.99

Features:

Pros: 25-125mm zoom range; iSweep Panorama; 3D capture modes; Full HD movie modes; Fast autofocus.

Cons: Slow operation in certain modes; Poor print quality; Soft corners; Lens is blurry all across the bottom of the frame.

Price and Availability: The Sony WX9 digital camera began shipping in the US market from March 2011. Initially priced at US$ 199.00 but Amazon has since dropped the price to US$154.99. Available body colors include black, silver, and red.

Look and feel. Aesthetics have always been an asset of the Cyber-shot line, and the Sony WX9 is no exception. The slight frame weighs in at under five ounces and is offered in multiple colors: Black, Silver, and Red. The strawberry-red WX9 is the most attractive option, while the brushed black frame assumes a sleeker, more covert presence.
Extending just 3.72 x 2.22 x 0.78 inches (94.6 x 56.3 x 19.8mm), the Cyber-shot WX9 is essentially a thin rectangle with rounded corners. The camera is tall enough to sport a large 3.0-inch LCD screen, but slim enough to easily slide into a pocket. Typical of sleek point-and-shoot designs, the Sony WX9 omits a grip or textured material to support your shooting hand. The weight is well balanced, allowing you to support the camera with your thumb and index finger resting on the shutter button and navigation wheel (on the top and back of the camera, respectively). A small power button is just left of the shutter button, and two holes for the microphone are left of that.
There are minimal buttons on the Sony WX9's exterior, with the majority of controls grouped into a vertical cluster along the right portion of the back of the camera, accessible by your thumb in shooting position.



LCD. Like most contemporary point-and-shoot digital cameras, the Sony WX9 opts for a larger LCD screen and omits an optical viewfinder. The 3.0-inch screen has a whopping 921,600-dots, rare for a low-priced pocket camera, and is viewable from a wide angle. There is also a five-step control to brighten or dim the screen to accommodate glare or difficult viewing conditions.
In use, the Sony WX9's screen supplies adequate contrast and a wide view. The LCD's color reproduction is a bit oversaturated – particularly warmer colors – making both the viewfinder and captured image appear more saturated than the actual captured file, particularly anything with a hint of red or brown will become vibrantly red.
The screen resolution is one of the more impressive elements of the Sony WX9, though the level of detail the monitor displays shows some of the image quality flaws (for better or worse). Softness in the corner of the images is a major drawback to the WX9's recorded images, a defect that is noticeable in Playback if you zoom in on image details near the edges of the frame. This allows you to check and determine how soft particular objects may appear in the printed image; however, there is no correction for it.



Lens. Sony touts the Cyber-shot WX9's 5x zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar-branded lens, noting the image quality it can produce when paired with the camera's CMOS sensor. The 25-125mm equivalent zoom lens doesn't live up to its billing, however, producing images with soft edges and occasionally glowing lines around objects.

The design of the Sony WX9's lens is better than the results it produces. The collapsing 5x zoom is effectively stabilized by Sony's proprietary Optical SteadyShot image stabilization system, and is a bit faster (brighter) than most lenses on point-and-shoot cameras at full wide angle, opening up to a large max aperture of f/2.6. The large aperture helps to produce images with less visual noise in low light conditions when shooting at full wide angle.
Lens speed, however, slows significantly across the 5x zoom range, closing to a max aperture of f/6.3 in full telephoto. This means it's likely that low-light images shot at full zoom will be noisier and less defined than photos captured at wide angle.
Ultimately, the configuration of the Sony WX9's Zeiss lens holds promise, though its output falls significantly far short of expectations.


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