Sony DSC-S600 Review

Note: The S600 is not equipped with a video-out port. As a result, our screen captures are not up to our usual high standards.

Playback screen has icons for battery condition, image size, picture number / total number of pictures. Across the bottom is the folder name, image file number and time and date.

Pressing the Monitor button toggles the display of the exposure compensation, aperture, shutter speed, flash and white balance settings. Press it again to clear all of the overlay information. There's no video-out port, so images can not be played back on a TV screen.

While viewing a picture fullscreen you can toggle the telephoto zoom control and zoom-in to the image in multiple steps up to 5x. Once magnified you can scroll around inside of the image using the 4-way selector.

Playback index mode, nine thumbnail size images are displayed per page. You can quickly search through the stored images and display one full screen.

Movie clip playback screen, audio is replayed through built in speaker.

You can also Divide a movie in playback. This allows you take a larger movie and separate it into two or more smaller ones, which is very useful when wanting to send them via email.

Still image playback mode options:

Folder - Change the current image folder

Protect - Protect/unprotect images from accidental erasure

DPOF - Attach DPOF printing information to image(s)

Print - Print All In This Folder, DPOF image, Select, or This image

Slide - Start slideshow, set interval time between images

Resize - Resize image to 5.0M, 3.1M, 1.2M or VGA

Rotate - Rotate portrait mode images for TV display

Divide - Divide MPEG movie clips

Images can be resized to smaller resolutions.

SETUP options - CAMERA:

AF Mode - Single, Monitor

Digital Zoom - Choose from Precision (8x) or Smart zoom

Red Eye Reduction - Enable/disable the flash Red-Eye mode

AF Illuminator - Auto or Off

Auto Review - On/Off, allows you to view an image immediately after it has been captured

SETUP options - Memory Stick Tool:

Format - Format the memory card (Memory Stick or CF Type I)

Create Rec. Folder - Creates the folder in which captured images will be stored

Change Rec. Folder - Allows you to change from created folders

Copy - Copy files between Memory Sticks

SETUP options - Setup 1:

Beep - Camera "beep" sounds: Shutter, On, Off

Language - Set the Menu language

Initialize - Reset to default

SETUP options - Setup 2:

File Number - SERIES (sequential auto number) or RESET

USB Connect - USB protocol: PTP, Mass Storage, PictBridge or Auto

Clock Set - Set the internal clock