Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T500

The Cyber-shot DSC-T500 paves the path for future HD movie capture-enabled T-series to follow and we certainly hope to see better image quality then.

Quality of pictures taken at ISO 80 to 200 was still acceptable. Noise reduction handled well, although it was clear that at ISO 200, details were smeared. At ISO 800, the images were not very sharp and, needless to say, at ISO 1600 and 3200, we could barely make out words in the test chart.
Unlike other HD video capture-enabled snappers which record in AVI format, Sony has opted for MPEG-4 instead. A 35-second recording on the T500 chalked up about 42MB which we found to be small, compared to the 30-second, 100MB clip on Samsung's NV24HD.
The 10.1-megapixel T500 is Sony's venture into HD-quality video capture on a point-and-shoot. So naturally, this was one of the aspects we tested heavily. Audio-wise, the T500 supports stereo recording.