Sony H9 Photos

#1 Chris

Aah, Chichester and Bognor!

Are you local?

4:30 pm - Monday, May 7, 2007

#2 Mark Goldstein

Nope, just a day visit

4:32 pm - Monday, May 7, 2007

#3 rob

I wonder which settings are used.
Some photos show a lot of compression. Not very sharp.
I am doubting about the Sony and the Canon S5 IS. Waiting for more test results.

9:32 pm - Monday, May 7, 2007

#4 Rick

I can take photos in total darkness now with my D70s & SB600 and they come out great. Nothing new there.

12:03 pm - Wednesday, May 9, 2007

#5 Don

They are truly terrible pictures. I could say that the person who took them did something drastically wrong to get them that bad but I doubt that, it is a very poor camera. Images I have seen so far lead me to believe Sony have taken a step back 4 years. I still use the Sony H1 and the pictures taken with that camera are clearly light years ahead in quality. I would gladly mail examples to ANYONE who says my claims are rubbish. Check out a well known review/ forum and look at all the recent H1 postings, the H1 is leaving the H9 standing. This of course should not be the case, that much is obvious. Sony, like many maufactures are cramming too many pixels on a small sensor with the results you see, degrading of picture quality.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/485273583_eda4038c23_b.jpg
That is a quality, H1 picture, one you could never get with the H9. because camera is not good enough.

7:42 pm - Thursday, May 10, 2007

#6 Simpson

Well, what to say!?!?!? Those pix are horrible and don't really show the quality of the H9!!!! I got better results with my old P72!!!!!!!

I mean, even with "everything-auto"-settings, a total rookie would be able to get better results!!!!

I love the H9! You really get a good quality for an alright price!

I don't know what went wrong here, but try it again!

11:09 pm - Thursday, May 10, 2007

#7 Ruud de Graaf

They are indeed really the worst pictures I have seen of this camera on the net. I hope Sony does not save money on monitoring the manufacturing, because this unit must be defective. I you do not agree, look at the pictures without scaling them down for your screen width and compare that with the samples of Sony in Japan! There are also reports about units with more than normal CA on the net. So buyers, don't think too soon that you are a bad photographer when you shoot pictures like here, but swap the darn thing! And for Sony: increase the end check with 100% please!

12:05 am - Friday, May 11, 2007

#8 Itai

The full-review of the H9 is up at Neocamera. There lots of crops and a few pics there, so you can see what else it is capable of. See:
http://www.neocamera.com/review_sony_h9_more.html

3:30 am - Friday, May 11, 2007

#9 mic

Hahahaa, who take those sample photo's?
Not a photograper... LOL
Try it again, please... These are not sampels idd...
Hahahaa. Please take them away from this site.

9:17 am - Friday, May 11, 2007

#10 Chris

To see my whole article go to: http://sydneysnaps.blogspot.com/2007/05/sony-dsc-h9.html

Conclusion:

Well, okay, here is the box and dice, if you have a later Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax DSLR unless you want Nightshot and a movie mode this isn't going to be for you. If you have a Lumix and hate the noise or want to see what a good picture is, its worth taking a look at the H9. I for one won’t look at another Lumix until the CCD has changed, no matter how many megapixels it has. If you’re a Sony H5, Olympus 550 or recent Canon S3 user and just want to feel good that you just didn’t waste you’re money, there’s probably not enough here unless you have a bit of spare cash to warrant a change. But there are some reasons for the change, Click to capture is good, ISO is excellent, Stabiliser works but not as good as I had expected. However if you’re new to the game this is the best balance out there that raises the notch that little bit better especially in the area of point and shoot and excellent image reproduction. The higher shutter speed with a decent ultrazoom is going to do most things for you at half the price of a Canon twin lens kit DSLR.

I just hope though that Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Konica Minolta realise that there are people out there that know they can make a better product and it’s a matter of the first to jump and deliver what is technically achievable now to get a new generation of brand loyalty. They’re close but protecting a burgeoning DSLR market where prices on lens kits, diffusers and other accessories will get them more money is a short term vision of something that is begging convergence.

4:32 am - Monday, May 14, 2007

#11 Mark Goldstein

The sample images were taken with a brand new H9 supplied by Sony UK, using a mixture of Aperture Priority, Scene and Auto modes. ISO was changed to suit the lighting conditions, with settings such as contrast, colour etc left at the default settings.

6:23 pm - Monday, May 14, 2007

#12 robert needham

Insufficient info on the ISO , aperture shutter speed and focal length in use. It would have been useful to see some shots taken at ISO 1600. The colour fringeing looks really bad. The zoom range is too ambitious for the price, Can't we be content with 30 - 150mm for example?

9:09 pm - Saturday, June 30, 2007

#13 rob

well after all: the super zooms do not offer the image quality I am looking for.
So no H9 and no S5IS either for me.
I bought a Canon G7.

8:06 am - Sunday, July 1, 2007

#14 sony dsc h9

Hello,
I recently bought a new sony dsc h9 with 4gb memory stick. when i take photos after some time there is messgae displays.
"reinsert memory stick"

after tht i have to fomat the memory card and then it again starts to work.

please help what could be the problem.

Brgds
Pankaj Sharma

4:27 am - Saturday, November 10, 2007

#15 Ruud de Graaf

I can only think one thing when I read your message: Use your warrenty! I would start to try another memory card and that should be preferrable of a known brand. If the problem stay's you should try to get yourself another H9! Don't wait too long with returning the camera, because otherwise it must be repaired and it could be that you are waiting for months...

Succes and please inform us about the developments!

4:14 pm - Saturday, November 10, 2007

#16 Jamie

The individual that took those photos is obviously not a photographer. They all have motion blur and the ISO seemed to be set a bit too high on some. My 7 year old cybershot 3.2Mp takes clearer pics than that.
Also, humidity on the lens may have been a factor, it looked like a rather gloomy day.
The H9 is a spectacular camera.

3:39 pm - Tuesday, December 18, 2007

#17 Ruud de Graaf

Hi Jamie,

You are ofcourse entitled to find the H9 spectacular, but I'm glad I switched it for the Panasonic FZ18...
No more oil paintings and purple fringing for me...

6:34 pm - Tuesday, December 18, 2007