Sony Bloggie Touch MHS-TS20

Colour (9.49)

The Sony Bloggie Touch performed well in our colour accuracy test, which is noteworthy for an ultracompact camcorders. Many similar models—like the Kodak Playsport and the JVC series of camcorders—struggle mightily with this test due to their poor auto white balance systems. The Bloggie Touch did run into this problem at times, but for the most part it was able to produce accurate colours in our bright light test, hence its strong score. (More on how we test colour.)

Colour Accuracy Performance
Colour Test Chart (above), Colour Error Map (right)
The Sony Bloggie Touch produced a colour error of 3.69 and a saturation level of 80.45% in our bright light colour testing. (The map on the right is a diagram of the colour error. The length and direction of each line indicates how the camcorder processed each particular colour.)

In camcorders that struggle with white balancing properly, we often see orange or red hues associated with our bright light test image. You can see this in the colour comparison table below with the comparison models. The sample image from the Bloggie Touch, however, looks quite good. According to our colour error map, the Bloggie Touch did very well rendering brown and certain blue tones, while it had more trouble with green, yellow, and purple colours.

Sony Bloggie Touch Colour Modes
Auto	100% Crop

Sony Bloggie Touch Colour Comparisons
Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport
Sony MHS-CM5	Picsio GC-WP10

	Close-Up Colour Comparisons
	Ideal	Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport	Sony MHS-CM5	JVC GC-WP10
Red
	Ideal	Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport	Sony MHS-CM5	JVC GC-WP10
Green
	Ideal	Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport	Sony MHS-CM5	JVC GC-WP10
Blue
	Ideal	Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport	Sony MHS-CM5	JVC GC-WP10
Skin Tone 1
	Ideal	Sony Bloggie Touch	Kodak Playsport	Sony MHS-CM5	JVC GC-WP10
Skin Tone 2

The Sony Bloggie Touch MHS-TS20 definitely had one of the best colour accuracies we've seen from an ultracompact camcorder. This is just based on our testing, of course, and results do vary quite a bit depending on what kind of lighting you shoot under. Outdoors, under natural light, most ultracompact models produce fine colours. It is when you're inside, with mixed lighting, that you'll see problems like what we saw from the Picsio GC-WP10, Kodak Playsport, and to a lesser extent the Sony Bloggie MHS-CM5 as well.

Colour Score Comparison		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Kodak Playsport
		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Sony MHS-CM5
		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Picsio GC-WP10

Noise (10.97)

Continuing its strong performance in our bright light testing, the Sony Bloggie Touch managed some very good results in our noise test. The camcorder averaged 0.5% noise, which is less noise than we saw on its predecessor, the Sony Bloggie MHS-CM5. This is a strong overall score, and only the Picsio GC-WP10 measured slightly less noise out of the camcorders shown below.  (More on how we test noise.)

Noise Comparisons
Sony Bloggie Touch 100% Crop	Kodak Playsport 100% Crop	Sony MHS-CM5 100% Crop	Picsio GC-WP10 100% Crop

The Bloggie Touch records 1080p Full HD video, but its recorded image didn't appear any sharper than the competition. In fact, when you look at the crops above, you'll see the Bloggie Touch has a less crisp image than its predecessor, the Sony Bloggie MHS-CM5. We chalk this discrepancy up to the fact that the CM5 has a better lens (with optical zoom) than the Bloggie Touch, which can help produce a sharper image.

Noise Score Comparison		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Kodak Playsport
		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Sony MHS-CM5
		Compare the Sony Bloggie Touch to the Picsio GC-WP10