Were it just a plain, ordinary, ultracompact digicam, we would call the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3 a responsive digital camera with good overall performance. Lens quality is about what you’d expect from any ultracompact, with some softening in the corners at both zoom settings, and moderately high chromatic aberration.
Low-light performance was only marginally better than we found with the DP1, with a severe loss of colour in long exposures that was reflected in both JPEG and raw files. Noise and colour shifts became increasingly obvious from ISO 400 on and 15-second exposures shot at ISO 800 were almost unusable.
If this was the first product of a company that is just starting up, I would probably hail it as a promising start – but an established and respectable manufacturer like Nikon should do better, even if superzooms are still something of a novelty on its product palette.
Yuri Arcurs shows off his sweet stock photography studio in this lastest video from Crestock.com. As you can see, stock photography is big business for Yuri.
A guided tour in Yuri Arcurs’ studio at Aarhus in Denmark – see how he works and organize his sets and get a unique look behind the scenes at one of the most successful and productive stock photography studios
Additional features including sensor-shift image stabilisation, scene recognition and tracking AF, as well as some minor image quality tweaks make the S1500 a worthwhile upgrade over the S1000fd.