Thin and ultra-compact, the new Sony DSC-W70 digital camera(and its siblings the W30 and W50 models) updates the Cyber-shot line with convenient portability and fully automatic exposure control in a compact, rugged metal case. The W70 offers the excellent resolution of a 7.2-megapixel CCD and 58 megabytes of internal memory, as well as a large 2.5-inch color LCD monitor and useful range of preset exposure modes. Though the Sony W70 doesn’t offer any direct manual exposure control, the camera’s extensive LCD menu system does offer quite a bit of creative control with image contrast, sharpness, and color options. The 3x optical zoom lens zooms across a range equivalent to 38-114mm on a 35mm camera with a maximum aperture ranging from f//2.8 - f/5.2, and the camera’s Macro focus mode gets exceptionally close at just two centimeters. The Sony W70 boasts an extended ISO range, with equivalent settings from 100 to 1, 000. While the 800 and 1, 000 settings do allow you to capture brighter images under dim lighting, they also bring with them much higher image noise as a consequence. Still, the wide range of ISO settings is a plus for a point-and-shoot digital camera.