That's because more of the surface area can be devoted to light-gathering, as the circuitry has been moved below the active layer of the sensor. Sony has selected a generous still-image sensitivity range of ISO to 12, equivalents, but for movie shooting, the range is a much narrower to 1, equivalents, with the ability to extend to ISO 2, maximum.
LCD monitor. Images can be framed and reviewed on a 3-inch LCD panel with , dot resolution, or x pixels, with each pixel being comprised of separate red, green and blue dots. There's no optical or electronic viewfinder on the HX30V.
Video capabilities. As well as still imaging, the HX30V can also capture high-def p aka Full HD; 1, x 1, pixels AVCHD video at a rate of 60 progressive-scan frames per second, or 60 interlaced fields per second, and movies include stereo audio. There are also three reduced-resolution options: either high-def 1, x 1, pixel that plays back at aspect ratio, but with reduced resolution on the x-axis, high-def p 1, x pixel or standard-def VGA x pixel.
The other reduced-res modes are all MPEG-4 only, and are captured at 30 frames per second. Two different stabilization systems are available for video: either the standard Optical SteadyShot used for still imaging, or a more powerful Active SteadyShot mode that combines optical and digital stabilization, with a resulting increase in the focal length crop.
Translation: wide-angle video is harder to achieve with this enabled, but you can manage an even greater maximum telephoto. Zoom lens. The Sony HX30V is based on a powerful 20x optical zoom lens that protrudes telescope-like from the front of its solid body. The HX30V's lens bears Sony G branding, and when shooting still images in its native aspect ratio, yields 35mm-equivalent focal lengths from a generous 25mm wide angle to a powerful mm telephoto.
Thankfully, the HX30V includes Sony's Optical SteadyShot image stabilization, to help fight blur from camera shake at the longer focal lengths and in low light. Interestingly, the HX30V can save 13 megapixel still images during movie capture, without interrupting the video feed.
This is achieved using Sony's "By Pixel Super Resolution" technology, a variant of digital zoom that uses both interpolation and pattern-matching to resample the low-res video frame to a much higher resolution. This allows photos and movies to be tagged with the capture location and bearing.
Connectivity and storage. No standard-def composite video output is provided. Pricing and availability. The only body color for this model is black. I grew up a Sony fanatic, dating back to my first Walkman and who from that era didn't fall head over heels for the Walkman?
Subsequent decades brought us the Sony portable CD player, the best top-of-the-line portable DAT player from the audio industry and all those sweet Handycams. The trend Sony embraced was producing great things in small packages, and often in quite innovative ways. The HX30V promises more great things in a small package, and while a bit on the heavy side, it still slips comfortably into a vest or jacket pocket. I was surprised by its weight when picking the camera up for the first time.
I worried about this for only a short time, because the more I shot with the HX30V, the more I came to appreciate how solid it feels in my hands, and the added heft feels a lot more comforting when composing shots, especially tricky ones. I grew to think of it not as bulky, but more like a little tank -- solid and packed full of features. Controls : To each his own, but I am admittedly old-school when it comes to the controls on a camera: I like knobs, buttons and dials, and I am not fond of touchscreens.
I realize many photographers do like them -- and more power to you -- but luckily manufacturers like Sony are listening to both sides.
So while you see plenty of new, modern, sleek types such as the Sony TX20 , so too are we seeing a continuing return of retro looks and physical dials on other cameras. The HX30V just feels good to me, with its faux leather rubber protruding front grip, its textured indentation on the back for your thumb, and yes, real controls at the ready. From a design standpoint Sony didn't change much about this model physically compared to its predecessor, keeping a similar shape, grip, weight and control features, and this is a good thing considering how much we thought of the HX9V.
Look and feel. I didn't find myself shooting much one-handed, but either way these touches go a long way towards enjoying the feel of the camera. As there is no viewfinder, and with a fixed LCD monitor, I found composing shots was best accomplished with my thumbs supporting the bottom and my forefingers the top.
This also made it easy to switch back and forth between settings with my right thumb, and easy to extend the camera outward and away from me so that I could see the LCD while composing shots.
I also love the way the HX30V looks. It's a bit more rugged than your typical point-and-shoot. And yet the rounded corners are a nice touch for a square camera note to manufacturers: a "pocket" camera should never have sharp edges. The 3-inch LCD is bright and crisp, and has five brightness settings to suit your preference or shooting situation.
I found the default '3' setting to be good in most any situation. Of course, no camera is perfect, and the HX30V has its share of operational pitfalls as well. For starters, I find the menu system confusing at best. For instance, in order to find certain creative modes you have three different places to search to hunt down the one you're looking for.
Fortunately the creative modes themselves are quite good we'll talk more about those in a bit , so once I adopted to the awkward menu layout I didn't have to worry much about it anymore. The printed manual is very little help and mostly confusing, and the same goes for the online User Guide. I did love the custom button, which allows you to configure it in three different ways -- controlling EV, ISO or white balance -- depending on your preference.
In the field. The Sony HX30V is a fun camera to shoot with. Along with its solid, comforting feel comes a fast and accurate autofocus system, as well as a very well-designed zoom system that's a pleasure to use.
The camera's AF system produces lightning-quick results, and the HX30V also gives you a "tracking focus" feature, where you identify the subject by pressing the screen to put the target on that subject, and then you're free to recompose the shot, even change distances, and the camera will keep your target as the point of focus.
Program Auto is the basic old-school style auto we all know and love, allowing you to change basic settings and letting the camera do the rest of the thinking for you. Intelligent Auto tries to guess the scene you're shooting and choose the best settings for you on the spot. If you have the display settings turned on, the LCD will show you the scene it has selected for the shot. This is good because on the rare instance the camera chooses the wrong one, you can go into "scene" mode and select the right one more on scene modes in a bit.
Superior Auto is a different animal, and one I grew to really enjoy. It also takes a best guess at what you are shooting, quickly snaps between two and six shots and then bakes them into one image meant to be clearer, sharper and just better overall.
The Bionz processor is fast and generally delivers the result within seconds, and I found on most occasions that it did deliver better results than you'd find in the other two auto settings -- I found the images richer, with more dynamic range and more detailed -- so I relied on it quite a bit. However, it's definitely not a shooting mode to be used for every shot, but rather to add a little more drama to everyday scenes as desired.
Zooming is addictive. The Sony HX30V's zoom functions as two different animals, with optical zoom going to a full 20x and digital zoom extending all the way to 40x. I used to cringe when I heard anyone talking about digital zoom, as it used to be a terrible thing to have to see and endure. But Sony has created Clear Image Zoom technology, intended to improve on traditional crop-and-interpolate digital zooms, and has also stabilized the lens with Optical SteadyShot IS.
There's even a 3-way Active IS mode with horizontal, vertical and rolling correction designed to advance IS capabilities during video capture. Still, when you zoom way out you greatly magnify the effect that even slightly shaky hands have on an image, so I was really curious to get out and test all these in combination.
Until now I've never been a big fan of long telephoto shots , preferring to be fairly close to the subjects I want to shoot. The Sony HX30V changed that for me to a degree , and I found myself becoming a bit of an overnight zoom junkie. It opens up shooting possibilities that I have not explored much, and the more I used it the more fun it became. Low-light shooting. I have never been a fan of built-in flashes on point-and-shoot cameras, as to my taste they flatten the subject matter and also tend to take away the warm glow of a comfy room or evening outdoor setting.
But unless you're shooting a landscape with a tripod, it's hard to produce good results without a flash for handheld shots of moving subjects in low light with a point-and-shoot.
Cranking up the ISO to compensate has traditionally yielded images with too much noise and too little color. Cameras with larger sensors than the HX30V like, say, the RX can pull this off rather well due to a bright lens and larger pixels, but cameras with smaller sensors have generally failed here. This was welcome news to me, but the proof is, of course, in the pudding -- or in this case, the birthday cake!
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