Sony HX90 stills/photo examples
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Several pictures takes with a Sony HX90. Some on the 'golden' Auto mode, some with Scene mode and some done with manual mode (M, S, H etc.).
I recommend taking badly lit or night shots with manual adjustments (M mode). It has the tendency to increase the ISO values too much with auto-mode, resulting in grainy or outright ugly pictures (such as 01:52 and 01:55). When in M-mode, you can select AUTO ISO and set the minimum and maximum ISO values (e.g. 80 min and 800 max) to avoid the blown-out and grainy shots. I always try to shoot at 80 ISO and adjust the aperture and shutter speed to achieve the best quality, but sometimes the ISO has to be bumped as well (starry shots). As the final few pictures indicate, the camera is not the best (neither is the video of course) with poor light on auto-mode. The candle one (01:48) was taken with manual adjustments, the rest on auto. But overall, don't expect miracles with badly lit scenes with this sensor. Especially for split-second low-light shooting.
Small tip: disable the auto-on feature when releasing the viewfinder (and all other auto-on ones). I have had multiple instances where I'd accidentally release the viewfinder in my pouch when storing it, resulting the the telescopic lens coming out and hitting/stopping against the pouch walls (do that too often, and I guarentee you that it will damage the motor)
Several pictures underwent post-processing, only to correct for incorrect resemblances of the scene and how it actually looked by eye.
It can happen that you also take lesser quality images with the 'golden' Auto mode (when time for a photo opportunity is short, this is a great preset), but I'd say most of them are due to overexposure and can sometimes be fixes with post-correction (even though it does not shoot in RAW format).
I'm using the M manual mode more and more nowadays due to that over-exposure reason (mostly with video), but it unfortunately results in somewhat grainier images. So still some tweaking to do.
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