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A: According to a search on the Sony site, only the TX5, TX7 and TX9 have iSweep.
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Scotland Scenery: Panoramas Shot With Sony's iSweep Technology ...
Like most elements of photography, using the iSweep panorama function is easy to learn and hard to master. All you have to do is set the camera to iSweep, press the shutter button down half-way and then move the camera right to left (or left to right — your choice) in a semi-circle about 258 degrees. If your movement is too fast or too slow, it won't work. You can figure out the desired speed pretty quickly though. As you move the camera, it shoots 100 photos and then stitches them together in about a second.
Where you begin and end the panorama makes a huge difference in the end result of the photo. A lot of trial-and-error is involved with this function — good thing it's fun to spin around. Check out these two photos (the one directly above and the one above that) of St. Andrew's Castle in St. Andrews, Scotland. I was only standing a few feet away, yet the photos look remarkably different.
The ruined castle at St. Andrew's is a photographer's dream. I had less luck at Edinburgh castle — mostly due to the crowds and the gray sky. Neither is Edinburgh castle's fault, of course. And even non-crowded places, it's hard to have a 258-degree vantage point without any people. In many of my panoramas (that I chose not to picture here), I felt frustrated that you can't use the zoom with the panorama. But in this case, I had the opposite problem in that I couldn't find a way to avoid cutting off the very top.
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via isweep panorama MSG 12/14/11
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One of the Sony WX300's features that is pretty much a ubiquitous feature of many similar digital compacts today, is the Intelligent Auto mode. In essence, "iAuto" is able to recognise the scene you're about to shoot and adjusts the camera settings accordingly without you doing a thing. And nine times out of ten it works really well, it is just that the system is a little slow when choosing the "correct" mode; it defaults to basic point and shoot mode if it cannot decide what to do.
The Sony Cyber-shot WX300 backs up its iAuto mode with a "Superior Auto" mode, which does a similar job to iAuto but is able to recognise if the subject is moving and can then set the AF system to track it to keep it sharp. However, why Superior Auto is not built into the iAuto system I don't know.
Other modes include another common bit of technical trickery in the shape of iSweep Panorama where, as the name suggests, you "sweep" the camera around to grab a long thin panoramic of a scene. There's a set of neat artistic effects, which can be applied to both images and videos. If shooting portraits, then the Sony WX300 can be set to automatically remove problem skin such as spots or blemishes.