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Summary: Easy to use Camera
Review: This is my first digital camera and so far I love it. I think it's very easy to use compare with other camera in this range. The price is consider reasonable for Sony brand also. What I love the most about this camera is the Nimh rechargeable batteries. They're very affordable and you can find them every where. ...
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Summary: Great pics, but 'delay' can be very frustrating!
Review: This is my first digital camera. I bought this to 'test the waters', before plunging into Nikon D/Canon EOS D series. Sony DSC P71 is a fabulous camera when it comes to color accuracy, clarity of pictures,ease of use, and good features at this price level. It comes with an international charger and NiMH batteries. Noise at ISO 400 is noticable, yet the indoor night time pics are very warm..Now over to the undesirables..!
1. The digital zoom is practically useless. Picture looses clarity. I have disabled this feature. 3x Optical zoom is great. 2. 16mb is a joke - suggest you purchase a 64/128 mb. 3. The most frustrating thing about this camera is the shutter delay. i.e the time it takes the camera to record the scene after you click. That one+ second seems like an eternity. If you have a two year old, forget taking a good picture in one shot. I usually end up taking up 10 pics to get a couple right. The other 'delay' is between pictures. I am not sure if this problem is isolated to Sony or all digital cameras in general. Just this annoyance has convinced me to put off buying a more expensive digital camera for a while. I switch back to my SLR when this 'delay' gets to me! If delay would not bother you, go for it! It is one impeccable camera.
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Summary: Great Product
Review: This is my latest camera and I'm using it for web purposes. The picture quality is great and the zoom is also very useful. What I love about this camera? Fast when taking a new picture, great flash option. What I don't like is the noise that the camera does when you start it and the zoom moves in and out, so you can't take pictures without somebody notices you.
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Summary: Great camera..
Review: This is my latest camera and I'm using it for web purposes. The picture quality is great and the zoom is also very useful. What I love about this camera? Fast when taking a new picture, great flash option. What I don't like is the noise that the camera does when you start it and the zoom moves in and out, so you can't take pictures without somebody notices you.
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Summary: Fast, sharp pics, lightweight, great deal
Review: We went from our old, bulky, slow digital camera to this camera and couldn't be happier. We used it today for pictures while we were hiking. Some pics under redwoods were a bit dark, but a little adjusting in Photoshop worked wonders. Almost all of the pics are perfect the way they are. The controls are easy to use. The batteries seem to last quite a while. We haven't run out of battery power yet, so I don't know how long they will last. I took about a hundred pics while testing it over several hours, the battery display was still at a half. The included charger is slow, so we're going to get the starter kit. ASIN: B000066HU8 The tripod mount is metal, our old camera had a plastic one...which got stripped easily. The eyepiece helps save battery power , and also helps with taking pics in poor lighting conditions when we can't see the screen too well. The time it takes the camera to be ready after turning it on is only about the same as most point and shoot cameras. It is very quick between pics also.
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Summary: why the screwy batteries?
Review: What I can't figure out is why Sony makes this camera such that it works only with NiMH batteries. If you buy this camera you should also buy a dozen NiMH AA batteries and a fast charger. You'll need it.
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Summary: Great Value! Exceptional Camera!
Review: When I went out to buy a digital camera, I figured that a traditional camera brand, like Canon, Nikon or Olympus would make the most sufficient digital cameras. I was intending to purchace the Nikon Coolpix 3.21MP digital camera for [$$$], when I noticed that there was another camera with the same features and the same optical zoom as the Nikon, except it was only [$$$]. It was the Sony DSC-P71 Cyber-Shot 3.2MP with 3x Optical/ 2x Digital Zoom. I decided to take a gamble and I purchaced the Sony over the Nikon. When I took this baby home, I was very very pleased with the performance of this camera! The pictures I took, both indoor and outdoor photos were of a lot more quality than I once expected! I have owned the camera for only 10 days, and I already took over 700 pictures, and filmed over 30 short MPEG movies! The 21"X16" photos I took with my camera, both indoors and outdoors look completely realistic! Not to mention, there is myriads of options and ways to enhance your photos! You need a camera with many options and settings to make tasteful and unique photos. Picture taking becomes jejune if all the photos you snap are standard color photos. I'm a junior photographer at 14 years old, and for you other young photographers looking for a HI-RES. camera for a great price, I strongly suggest the Sony DSC-P71.
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