I've bought this little camera a few months ago. In the mean time I give it to a family member.
For me the camera was too small and not easy to handle.
The IQ looks great (nice colors,..) but 18mp for such a small sensor is way overkilled, I find there is lots of smearing and smudging going on, certainly in the shadows or with overcast skyes (It was the same with my HX9V). I don't like sony's jpg-processing engine (only exception is my RX100). After the W300 sony's jpg engine going downhill.
When you look at the images on your monitor, they look OK, but when you look at them at 75 à 100% you know what I mean.
But this camera was good for landsape pictures and portraits outside, not so much for indoor pictures and lowlight (with or wthout flash), with flash pictures look way too overexposed.
This camera is not the fastest one in startup time.
For me the camera was too small and not easy to handle.
The IQ looks great (nice colors,..) but 18mp for such a small sensor is way overkilled, I find there is lots of smearing and smudging going on, certainly in the shadows or with overcast skyes (It was the same with my HX9V). I don't like sony's jpg-processing engine (only exception is my RX100). After the W300 sony's jpg engine going downhill.
When you look at the images on your monitor, they look OK, but when you look at them at 75 à 100% you know what I mean.
But this camera was good for landsape pictures and portraits outside, not so much for indoor pictures and lowlight (with or wthout flash), with flash pictures look way too overexposed.
This camera is not the fastest one in startup time.