Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-T70 is an 8 Megapixel compact with a 3x optically-stabilised zoom lens. Announced in August 2007, it features a number of gadgets including a 3in touch-sensitive widescreen monitor and the capability to not just recognise faces, but wait until your subjects are actually smiling before taking the shot.

Like earlier Sony cameras with touch-screens, the T70 uses its monitor for almost all operations beyond the power, zoom and shutter release; it also allows you to do some fun options like tapping on the area where you’d like the camera to focus.

The new Smile Shutter mode is the logical step beyond face detection and allows you to set a threshold as to how happy your subjects have to look before the camera releases the shutter and takes the picture. A novelty perhaps, but one which could ensure no more grumpy photos – and it is optional, so you don’t have to use it.

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