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Summary: What Sony should do...
Review: ... about the slow shutter issue. Embed a memory stick/flash card in addition to Cd-r capability. I suspect that the shutter issue is due to cd-burning limitations and therefore would be really hard to address on a portable device (it is meant for stationary platforms -- pc, stereos, etc.). If you embed a memory stick that flushes the data to cd-r, then you get the best of both worlds -- speed of flash memory and the portability of cd-r!
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Summary: Can I give it 6 stars?
Review: ... This camera is well worth every penny. I should know, I bought it for more than Amazon is charging now, and it was still worth the price. Consider that the other camera I wanted only comes with one 8MB Memory Stick, this has five 156MB CD-Rs included. To get the other 148MB on Memory Stick for that other camera, I would have had to pay about $300-500 more. Those 156MBs can be found for around $1.50ea in bulk. This camera has endless features, and takes awesome pictures. I should know, I took mine all the way to Korea to document a recent trip. I use it for everything....it even lets you do movies up to 1 minute long. Even at the largest digital image setting (1600x1200) you can save about 140-150 images on one disk. In film that would be about 6 rolls, at $5-6ea...Come on people, use some common sense. This camera will actually save you money. I have disks set up for all different occasions, family moments, architecture, the dog, Cardinal baseball games, Korea trip, etc....It's great, I can keep a whole library of disks, and switch them out as I go along. Everywhere I go, people ask me about it, what it can do, etc. What you don't have one yet????
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Summary: My Sony Mavica MVCCD1000 Digital Camera...Still is Best...!
Review: Although I have had my Sony Mav CD1000 for only a few months, I have learned several important things...It is very good for stills, but action shots are left better to chance. The shutter seems to be delayed about one second, therefore, your moving object will not be in the picture as you first saw it (in "Still" mode). Email format is good, while maintaining full JPEG file sizes. Still images are wonderful and the digital zoom is incredible. The cost of CD's is worth the trade whever you consider that you can skip the film processing. If you are wanting to "GO DIGITAL" and "PAPERLESS" the CD1000 is great. Data can be read by CDR-RW drives without "Finalizing" the disk...which saves time and space. If you really want to consider buying the CD1000, find someone who owns one, and take it out for a great day of picture taking. Thanks to Sony!
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Summary: too much money
Review: come on now. This shouldn't cost 1000 dollars! why would it. i can understand the high price for some things, but this is stupid! there is no "camera shortaged"!
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Summary: wow
Review: for 100 bucks less, you can buy pretty much the same camera by sony. the other outways this, not to many big features extra here
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Summary: Great camera.....quite satisfied customer
Review: Hi, I just bought this camera last week in Manila with the price of 625usd (included VAT) so I guess this is a good deal. I have been looking for a digital camera for a long time and after searching internet for quite a long time, finally, I got what I really dream of...for myself. This is my first digital camera and I love it... I have always loved SONY digital camera and certainly I am not disappointed about this camera at all. The only complaint is the bulky size of the camera...
This camera rocks...I also a little confused between other SONY digital camera such as DSC-S75 but I love the 10X optical lens of this one so... I picked CD1000 instead...
The writing speed of this camera is not that bad as a lot of people here mentioned. It take me around 2 seconds to write the images on the CD-R.
I have taken a lot of pictures of my 6 months old baby...
I love the quality except a little underexpose quality if your pictures taken with dim light (indoor).
I would certainly recommend this camera to everyone.
Andy
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Summary: After two years still haven't seen a better digital camera.
Review: How often do you buy an electronic device that is still "best of class" after two years? I will buy another digital camera when they make one. It hasn't been done yet. I bought this camera in October of 2000 based upon experience with two other digital cameras. (One was a Kodak and one was a Sony) The built in CD is important for two reasons. Large file size, 800k per photo, and archiving of original photos. Don't under estimate the importance of having access to the original image files. My daughter-in-law has a newer Sony 3 megapixel camera with a 3x optical lense. I get virtually the same quality of images using my 2 megapixel 10x camera. At close range, without using the zoom, I can get better results with her camera. In most situations that is not an option. It does have a nice feature for locking in the light settings. Even though this camera is not being manufactured any longer, I bought a second one for our office. Five different people are using the same camera, but we each have our own set of 3 inch CD's for recording and storing our photos. Using a ... HP Deskjet 940c printer I get photo quality, or better, 5x7 prints cropped from 50% of the original images. I won best of division for an 8x10 print of my grand-daughter in the local 2002 county fair using my camera. The digital print was in the running for best of show, but got beat out by a 35mm black/white photo of a sand crab. (Actually, I damaged the print while trying to mount it. I may have won judges choice if not for that.) I still remember one of the judges looking at me with a skeptical expression on her face when I entered the 8x10 print in the digital category. She didn't necessarily believe me.
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Summary: Best Camera I Ever Owned
Review: I absolutely love this camera. Aside from the convenient CD storage, the camera takes absolutely super pictures. This camera's possibilities are endless. Recently, I purchased a wide-angle lense with macro capabilities for this camera and I was able to photograph and read the microscopic print on the new bill. On the right bottom of President Lincoln's picture, the words "The United States Of America" are printed so microscopic that you cannot detect any text, let alone read it, with the naked eye. My camera with added lense took a very clear picture of the text.
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Summary: really a 3.5 star not a 4 star
Review: I agree with the first reviewer the delay is a killer for any action shots, and you can tell that the next model will address that problem. If it is in the cards Sony should include a night vision viewer for an idea of what the photo will look like in a low light setting. steve D, california
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Summary: A wonderful camera, stunning pictures
Review: I bought this camera mostly because of the CD recording system. The idea of little flash memory cards and a 10 month old in the same building gave me cold sweats. That said, the camera is fantastic. The pictures are sharp and clear, and the resolution is fantastic. The first real shot I took with it (my daughter covered in baby food) was so sharp, you could actually see the fine print on her baby outfit. I did have the same problem with the "press the button and the image freezes, pauses, and then takes the picture of whatever it's pointing at then." But, after searching the manual, I discovered the answer. If you press the button half-way down, the little green light flashes, and then goes solid. From then on, squeezing the button the rest of the way takes an instant picture of what's being shown. I have some great shots of my son playing baseball with the bat and the ball caught in frame. Admittedly, that fact should have been printed in big bold letters on page two instead of fine print on page 47, but that's the fault of the tech-writers. So far, my only complaint is that pictures seem to be dark indoors, and the flash tends to overexpose rather than illuminate. Most of this can be avoided with the "spot meter" setting though, so I can't complain too much. Overall, I would recommend anyone who wants a serious camera to get this one. With after-market disks at about 50 cents each, I just bought 50 disks that should cover my picture taking for the next five years or so. Now that's the kind of economy I like for cameras.
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