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Summary: Excellent product
Review: This is an excellent product with countless advantages. The picture quality is excellent -- ask anyone who is knowledgeable about optics and they will drool over the Zeiss lens. Like many Sony products, the camera has a tremendous number of fancy features, is easy and intuitive to use and has a beautiful feel and appearance. Sony is a quality manufacturer and their products instill confidence. The manual, occasionally a Sony weakness, is quite helpful. In addition, the price has come down considerably and it is actually a very good value at this time. There are a few disadvantages with the camera -- it's still superior to competitive products overall but these are things you should be aware of. Like most digital cameras in this megapixel range, the photos are not a perfect match to the 4x6 format and need cropping (I have heard that a higher megapixel camera may solve this problem if you don't have time for this "hobby"). The included Memory Stick is insufficient. Battery life is short. The movies this camera makes are grainy with a jittery auto focus but most people are aware that it doesn't make sense to rely on one device for both needs (see Sony's HC-40 for a great camcorder). In the final analysis, another home run by Sony.
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Summary: Compact package, big features!
Review: I wanted a camera small enough to put in my pocket for snap-shots of my kids while on the go, but I also wanted some big camera features to be creative with. This Sony is quite compact, yet I love it's big camera abilities, to numerous to mention here. The Carl Zeiss lens adds an incredible sharpness to every picture. The list of accessories for this model is outstanding and will allow creative expansion for the amateur and the professional alike. However, the picture managing software, 'Image Mixer', included with the camera from Sony is an absolute nightmare. I figured out most of the features of the camera before the image program, and now I just use Picasa.
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Summary: JUST AMAZING!!!!!!
Review: I bought the sony dscv1 about 3 weeks ago and I've already taken more than 600 photos with it. I have to say it is almost perfect... It's difficult to believe how this tiny little camera take superb photos with extremely true-live colors. This camera can work in fully automatic mode; scene mode where you tell the camera if you are shooting a beach, lake, landscape, snow scene, night scene or portrait night scene. If you want to you can work fully manual changing the aperture from f2.8 to f8.0, shutter speed from 30 sec to 1/1000 sec, and ISO (the image sensor's sensitivity to light) from ISO100 to ISO800. Other modes like shutter speed or aperture priority are available too. The nightframing function let you see through the LCD screen in completly darkness, so you see all with a green tone but when you press the shutter the flash pop up and record the image with natural color... if you want to you can also record images without the flash using the nightshot function. The hologram AF works pretty well, you just press the shutter half-way down and the camera produces a lasser pattern that "paint" the subject helping the camera's foccusing system and showing you what portion of the scene are you pointing. Another great function is the live histogram, this is a graphic where the camera tells you if the picture you're about to take will be under-exposed or over-exposed, so this is continiously changing as you focus on a different subject or as you change the shutter speed or aperture. You can get interesting effects changing the white balance from the factory pressets light sources or telling the camera what is white just framing a white subject under the lighting condition you are working. Other functions include:
- changing the focus operation from single focusing (you press the shutter halfway down to focus) to monigoring aF (you don't have to press the shutter to focus) and continuos focusing. - AE lock function. To measure the exposure of any portion of the image so after that you can recompose the picture and shoot with the exposure fixed to that especific portion of the picture. - You can record tv size video only limited by the memory stick capacity. - Can record pictures with sound. (Pretty cool function) - The camera can take 16 pictures in succesion each time you press the shutter with the multiburst function or If you want to you can record 3 pictures continuosly with the burst 3 function. You can also make animated gif putting together consective images. - You can record your images in tiff mode or as a jpg file. Tiff images are not compressed so the image quality does not deteriorate. The only bad thing about this camera is the 32 mb that come with it, since each 5 MP picture in fine quality will be at least 2.0 MB, so you will have to purchase another memory stick. I recommend the sony 128x2 (256 total) Well this is a great camera and it can work as a point and shoot camera, as a fully manual camera or even as a video camera. Thanks SONY!!
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Summary: Average Joe - Things that matter
Review: I bought this camera from Dell based on all the reviews here and dpreview.com and was excited to get a hold of it. Took a couple of pictures and immediately noticed that the zoom button and response were very poor. If you look through the optical viewfinder you immediately smudge the LCD with you nose.
I took some pictures and noticed a blue pixel in all pictures taken (viewed at full resolution on screen). AAah! can be easily fixed but you expect perfection out of the box. I exchanged it. The replacement had a white pixel bang in the middle of all pictures. Called Sony heard some crap about it being a high precision system and this was acceptable. Promptly returned the camera. None of the Olympus and Minolta 5 MP cameras friends have exhibit dead/stuck pixels when new. Maybe I was just unlucky... But what is worse is that Sony thinks imperfection out of the box is OK! Must add that the pictures were good though...
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Summary: Best of the best.
Review: When you really compare those pics that were taken with different brands of 5 MP DCs do you realize how perfect the Sony dsc-v1 machine is. But be careful of its white balance adjust, use it wisely.
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Summary: Que cámara más extraordinaria!!!
Review: Recièn he cambiado mi Sony dsc-p10 por la Sony dsc-v1. Que buena decisión!!. La Sony dsc-p10 es una muy buena cámara e incluso mas pequeña y delgada que la dsc-v1, pero que en situaciones de poca luz se comporta muy mal. La dsc-v1 tiene varias característica que aventajan a la dsc-p10. Una de ellas es que la dsc-v1 posee las funciones Nightshot y Nightframing. Nightshot te permite disparar a objetos en lugares oscuros como escenas al aire libre por la noche o a animales o plantas en situaciones nocturnos e inclusive en total obscuridad. La función Nightframing te permite enfocar un objeto en la noche y grabarla con sus colores naturales usando el flash. La calidad de las imágenes es superior a la dsc-p10, èsto gracias a su lente Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar. Otra cualidad que hace de la dsc-v1 muy superior a la dsc-p10 es que tu puedes elegir el mètodo de disparo entre: 1)modo automático (el enfoque, la exposición y el balance de blancos son automáticamente ajustados lo que te permite una facilidad de disparo...èsta es la única función que posee la dsc-p10) 2) disparo automático programado (tu puedes cambiar la combinación del valor F y la velocidad de disparo) 3)prioridad de velocidad de disparo (esta función te permite disparar un objeto en movimiento rápido congelándolo) 4) modo de prioridad de apertura (èsta función te permite cambiar la profundidad del enfoque brindándote ambos, el objeto y el fondo dentro del enfoque o disparar a un objeto con un fondo borroso. y 4) modo de exposición manual (tu puedes manualmente ajustar la velocidad del disparador y los valores de apertura lo que te permite disparar en situaciones de acuerdo a tus propósitos). Lo que yo podría decir en contra de èsta extraordinaria cámara es una falla de diseño al colocar el flash (que salta) en el lado donde normalmente tu colocas tu dedo izquierdo para disparar pero creo que nada es perfecto y con el tiempo aprendes a agarrarla correctamente. Otras cualidades en contra y que muchos ya han mencionado (propias de todas las cámaras Sony) son: 1)la poca duración de la batería (que se compensa adquiriendo una de repuesto) y los 32MB del memory stick que es una broma y que tambièn se compensa adquiriendo uno de 128MB ó de 256MB. Espero sea de ayuda. (En español es mejor!!).
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Summary: thank you
Review: I bought this camera about a month ago and have enjoyed the freedom of having a digital camera immensely. I spent a significant time comparing different cameras and the reviews written on amazon convinced me that this was the camera for me. I really appreciate all those who wrote in because otherwise I probably would have bought the olympus with a 10x zoom. After comparing them and reading the reviews I think hands I got the camera that fits my needs better.
Thanks for your help in picking a great camera.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: I purchased this camera to eliminate the use of my film camera. It was worth it. The picture quality is just as good if not better than my Canon Elph APS camera. If you are a point and shot photographer use the Auto mode. If you like more control over your shots, you can do that also. My only complaint is the 32 MB card that comes with it. Get a larger memory stick.
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Summary: Its Superb
Review: I went shop to buy Canon G5 and the shop keeper showed me this camera. And i have taken Sony-DSC-V1 to my home. I have used Canon G2 which was also very Good, but the sony model is more handy and ith less weight. I feel it is superb.
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Summary: Nice camera
Review: I bought this camera to replace the Sony s85 that I lost a few months ago (which i loved). V1 has great construction, design, button are better functioning but i have to say that the flash is oddly placed. The flash pops up even in a well lit room and pushing down the flash is another unnecessary hassle. I expected the picture quality to be better than the S85 but it is not the case. I wouldve choosen the Canon G5 but I have many memory sticks and didnt wanna switch to CF. I regret getting the V1 slightly.
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