Sony DSC-S70 Digital Camera

Although the S70 does offer focus control besides the built-in auto focus, the focus support is rather weak. The macro mode is useful when photographing images at about a distance of 3 centimeters away. The problems come when one attempts to adjust the focus any more. Unlike the smooth manual focus of other cameras, the S70 offers only five manual focus modes, being: .5m away from the subject, 1.0m away from the subject, 3.0m away from the subject, 7.0m away from the subject and an infinity focus mode. These auto focus modes are pretty much worthless and we would much rather see a continuous manual focus option

The final creative feature of the S70 is its ability to alter the colors of a picture before it is taken. The five modes that can be selected are: solarize, black and white, sepia, negative art, and off. Below are pictures of our test image with each of these picture effects enabled.

Solarize. Click here to enlarge	Black and white. Click here to enlarge.
Sepia. Click here to enlarge.	Negative art. Click here to enlarge.
The normal picture. Click here to enlarge.

One feature we were looking for in the DSC-S70 that it does not have is an ISO adjustment. No camera specs tell us what the ISO equivalent for the S70 is, but we suspect that it hovers around the 200 range and is variable depending on lighting.