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hey guys Mike Roman here for TechnoBuffalo and I want you to say hello to my little friend this is the sony cybershot DSC TX 66 one of the smallest digital cameras in existence how did this wafer thin little rascal do in my full review let's find out after this awesome TechnoBuffalo intro hello and welcome to my review of the sony cybershot DSC TX 66 this thing is one of the smallest digital cameras I've ever reviewed Sony touts it as being about as thick as a double-a battery we'll just jump right into it with design check it out next to an iPhone it's a little thicker than an iPhone but the iPhone towers over it now check it out next to a stack of business cards it's about the same size how about Vincent van Gogh it's even smaller than Vincent van Gogh I got one more test here Don Mattingly Don Mattingly golden globe-winning Don Mattingly smaller than Don Mattingly the TX 66 is very swanky because it has this faceplate on the front that could be shoved downward and it powers the camera right on the other nice thing about the TX 66 is that the back houses a 3.3 inch o le d touchscreen capacitive touchscreen LCD with a resolution that's over a million pixels so this thing is just really really refined beautiful the only other external controls to speak of there's an on/off button but you'll never use that because you'll take advantage of this nice sliding faceplate action there's also a shutter button and there's a small awkward rigid zoom toggle which is not very great another note is that this camera has a very small battery pack so expect limited battery life and it runs on micro SD cards it records images and videos to micro SD cards they're a pain in the Kiester but with a camera this small what do you expect now perhaps one of the best things about the cyber-shot TX 66 is its features the technology of this camera far surpasses most cameras in its price range and its menus are far superior first off there are two separate auto modes there's an intelligent auto mode which recognizes up to 36 scenes and then there's the superior auto mode which actually takes up to 6 images in different scene modes and at different shooting parameters the TX 66 also has a nice sweep panorama mode however with Sony's you've got to be careful because if you don't pan fast enough it won't record all of the image and they'll get this black portion at the end so you really have to twirl quickly even though that's gonna make you dizzy and you might fall off a cliff I was really impressed with the scene selection there are things like backlight correction and HDR there's night scene there's handheld twilight there's pet the TX 66 has excellent auto focus and it's blazingly fast face recognition is awesome because the prioritizes adults and children and the TX 66 has one of the best playback modes on any digital camera zooming in on an image is so smooth you can also swipe from side to side you can tap you can drag and you can also apply effects and fun filters in playback mode the menu system and the touch screen sensitivity is fantastic with the TX 66 this is what a menu on a digital camera should be but one of my favorite modes on this camera was the picture effect mode now here you could do things like HDR painting illustration there was watercolor you could do miniature as far as features go the only hang-ups I had with the TX 66 is that it's a little bit slow especially when you power the camera on and sometimes rifling through menu options it's a bit slow also some of the scene modes are a bit gimmicky so you're going to want to stick with auto or program or if you want to do some picture effects now while the design is really nifty and the camera features technology out the wazoo I wasn't that crazy about the image quality but there's a caveat here this camera has an 18 point 2 megapixel sensor those are some big-ass pictures and obviously most owners of this camera are not going to be blowing up 18 point two megapixel posters you're gonna be throwing pictures on Facebook and Flickr and things like that so that's why I think Sony went with this giant pixel count when you size these images down they look really good especially on the O LED screen they look amazing now the cybershot DSC TX 66 has AVC HD video 1080 60 i that means interlaced it's going to output as 30 P so while I would have liked to have seen 60 p on this camera the quality of the video is pretty impressive you can also shoot in mp4 as well the only downside to the Tx 66 is that it's low-light performance and video mode is really not great while we're talking about low-light quality with still images you're gonna have to rely on the flash a lot and the high ISO scene modes for night so overall image quality with the TX 66 is good I've seen better in this price range but because of that big pixel count when you size them down they're gonna look fine for most shooters so what's the buffalo call with this 18 megapixel stack of business cards I really love this camera for its diminutive size I love the technologies involved in this camera the menus are awesome it even comes with a freaking stylus the image quality is not the best at full resolution but like I said most people are going to be sizing these images down to a fraction of what they are they're gonna look fine I think the cyber-shot TX 66 is going to be a very popular camera if you could find a TX 55 from last year you should be fine as well because not much has changed for the entire sony cybershot DSC TX 66 review go to TechnoBuffalo comm I'm Mike Pearlman and I'll see you guys later blimey it's even smaller than tinky-winky