Sony Party-Shot Personal Photographer for Sony TX1 and WX1 Digital Cameras
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Sony Party-Shot Personal Photographer for Sony TX1 and WX1 Digital Cameras
Customer Review: I sent it back.
Summary: 3 Stars
While I was very excited to get the PartyShot, it just didn't live up to expectations. The problem is that it's only designed to rotate around randomly and use the camera's built in smile detection function. What this means is that:
1. During its random, round and round, up and down, zooming in and out hunting, it has to find a face, that remains in postion for the face detection
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2. While holding the position on that face, the person has to smile, and hold the position long enough for it to lock in and take the photo
So yes, the first day we had this, while everybody was interested in it long enough to stand there, wait for it, hold the smile, it would SOMETIMES take a photo, and then only about 30% of the time. The other 70% of the time it didn't seem to find the smile or be able to focus even though the person was standing there still holding a smile!
Even worse, once the novelty wore off, and people didn't feel like standing there, still, smiling, or if the camera wasn't used in a well lit area, it wouldn't take any photos at all. Plus, even though it uses the flash, if it doesn't have enough light initially to find the face and the smile, it's not going to work. So in the end, you'll get more photos AND better photos by just holding the camera yourself and taking the picture. Believe it or not, this accessory would probably be better if it just took photos when it finds a face without trying to find a face and a smile, which never happens when there is no photographer holding the camera. So as much as I wanted to keep it, it was too expensive given it was a relatively useless lazy susan. It's really too bad, because it seems if the engineers would have just thought about this for a few minutes, they could have made the product much more realistic and useful.
Customer Review: It's gadget geeks dream toy...but kills the party mood quickly
Summary: 3 Stars
There is a weird paradox here....its supposed to be a party toy, correct? Well, I have used it several times during a party but eventually had to shut it down because it makes people very very uncomfortable. If you mount it at right level, it does takes good enough picture but the creepy factor really is a deal killer. It's cool toy nevertheless but its practical value is questionable.