Sony HX5 vs Sony HX1

2010-6-1 17.10
The battle of the Xes

macro close up both in AI mode, the HX5 (always the left picture) used the macro sweet spot at 2.4 x.
The sweet spot from the HX1 is 1.5 x, what does not give you more magnification on the contrary to the HX5 but gives you some more distance from the object what otherwise nearly would touch the lens (see more details on my HX1 blog also with the skeleton watch close ups).
The crops are lossless, that means you see the original quality.
As you can see the HX5 has a wider depth of field (DOF).
Cameras were sitting on the table.

Hand held

Cameras were sitting on the table.

Hand held macro zoom
Tha HX1 was maxed out at 19 x from this distance

Cameras were set to P mode and spot focus.
In P mode my HX1 is set to DR+, NR+, Color Mode vivid and Sharpness+
Lossless Crop, focus was on the Bougainvillea

Cameras were set to P mode and spot focus.
In P mode my HX1 is set to DR+, NR+, Color Mode vivid and Sharpness+
Full zoom, focus was on the spider in the net

Cameras were set to P mode and spot focus.
In P mode my HX1 is set to DR+, NR+, Color Mode vivid and Sharpness+
At this shot I noticed that the HX1 has a better display. The HX5 did show the sun drenched pink part of the carriage in the same color as the shadow part.

Cameras were set to P mode and spot focus.
In P mode my HX1 is set to DR+, NR+, Color Mode vivid and Sharpness+
Focus was on the tower

Cameras were set to P mode and spot focus.
In P mode my HX1 is set to DR+, NR+, Color Mode vivid and Sharpness+
Full wide angle

I had the pleasure getting a few New Yorker magazines from the late 70th, so here I test how good are both cameras as a copy machine.
Both at maximal wide angle and I shot with a border around to check for distortions.

HHT


HHT crop original quality


HHT crop Post Processing and re-compressed


AMB


AMB crop original quality

I had to re shoot the HX5 AMB because it was blurry. In this low light situations it is always good to take several shots to be on the save side.

P Mode
 
both cameras choose ISO 400 and the shots where unusable.
both cameras set to ISO 1600

P Mode crop original quality


HX5 medium zoom F=5 1/6 sec
HX1 medium low zoom F=4.5 1/5 sec, all image processing settings to standard
All shots handheld

HDR vs DRO plus

HX1 all settings to neutral

HX5 EV-2 Post Processing until the colors were pretty close

the shirt is black and the Homer tie is dark blue