So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing first look and practical test
of the Sony Cybershot DSC tx5 camera so
first of all let's do the boring specs first of all second of all it is
waterproof that's not boring but it is a spec next it is 10.2 megapixels it has a
4X optical zoom and a 25mm wide angle
lens which is 35 mm format okay it comes
with one battery pack but you can also get an optional one and it
records oh that's a very strange way to advertise that well it records still
images in full 1080p HD but it does way
more than that obviously cuz it's 10.2 megapixels but it actually records video
in 720p so here on the back there's a bunch of other stuff let's just get this
open pretty much I just want to get to the part where we actually um put it
underwater so we find first of all our one-year warranty card then we have a uh
notes on waterproofing oh okay this might actually be worth having a look at
uh damage caused from misuse is not covered uh closing the corners properly
closing all the or the corners the covers properly cleaning it after the
camera is under and near water okay so these are all important steps to make
sure that the camera stays waterproof then we've got a driver disc then we
have uh a registration offer we got a notes
on using the camera underwater personal some kind of accessories brochure then
we have a users manual which is in uh
English and French for Canada okay then
we find the actual camera itself so we got a charger we got our battery battery
goes in the charger just a little something like that then we have a oh
boy what is this I have no idea what this is so yeah
then we've got a couple included cables I hope no one is closing that door
behind us cuz then we're going to be stuck out here I've got One USB data
cable as well as a composite video out
cable so that plugs into the camera and then we have the camera itself so you
can see you got your basic specs here it is waterproof up to 10 ft it is shock
proof from 5 ft although we're not going to be doing that particular test it is
dust proof I mean you can assume anything that keeps water out is also
going to keep out dust and then it is also Freeze Proof so it can be operated
down to -10° C or 14° fhe it has
intelligent sweep Panorama as well as outstanding low light performance okay
there's your 4X optical zoom has a Carl ice lens and Optical steady shot so it
has Optical image stabilization that's pretty cool there's your flash and uh
here let's uh see if we can figure out how to put okay so here we can open the
bottom this way oh this is quite tricky
to remove actually oh there we go okay so you got your uh your seals around
here probably somewhere the battery goes in right here and I wish I had an SD
card because now we're not going to be able to actually do the test on camera
but what I can do is I can um just turn it
on okay turn it on H so far it's not turning on that
seems like a bad sign doesn't it maybe I put the battery in wrong no I did not so
we'll put the battery in again close it up yeah okay and then we're going to
turn it on yeah there we go that time it turned on excellent so let's see if it
has any internal memory uh no no it doesn't have internal
memory oh it does have a touch screen I should have mentioned that so it's got a nice big touch screen which actually
we're even out here in direct sunlight right now and I'm able to see it quite
easily can you see it on the camera uh cameraman says no yes so I'm not really
sure exactly what he's getting at there but yeah so we can go through the menu
we can set whatever it is that we want to set we're I think we're in
720p uh fine recording quality right now
so why don't we just do this there that
was our test it's underwater and it's
still working uh lens is a little dirty so I'm
going to just kind of you know clean it like this it is still working can you
can you see that through the bin I don't know if you're going to be able to see
that but can you see it from the top here you can come look from the top so
we've got the camera in the Water right now and it is still functioning so I can
go ahead and press buttons and stuff like that it's still telling me the
memory card is required but the touchcreen is fully operational even
underwater and I'm not having any difficulty using it so besides not
knowing how to use this camera so handheld Twilight oh hey here's all your
little movie or picture adjustments cool
okay so you know what what I actually think we were trying to achieve
here today we have achieved we have tested it on underwater let's make sure
it's shock proof too let's just whack it a little bit yeah it's all good Okay
cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Sony Cybershot DSC tx5
waterproof camera