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Summary: Should have bought the zoom...
Review: I really like this camera, but I'm wishing that I had spent the extra $ to get the P51 with the zoom. I would return it for an exchange if it weren't for the 15% restocking fee. Think about it long and hard. I think the extra $ would be worth it.
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Summary: I love my Sony DSC-P31 Cybershot
Review: I recently purchased this camera through Amazon and I absolutely LOVE it. I am a student and literally have no money. So, being able to make a second-hand purchase saved me a lot of money and I have been having a lot of fun with it. It's so small that I can literally take it everywhere with me. In terms of battery use, the first thing I did was to purchase an additional 4 rechargibles and a battery charger that charges in less than 4 hours. So far, I have had to change them once in the last 3-4 weeks. For the entry-level, cost-concious photographer, this is the one. I anticipate not having to upgrade until I graduate.
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Summary: like a charm
Review: I sympathize with the W2K buyer, since I had similar meltdown with an HP printer & XP. But no problems with XP and this little baby. No software to install. Just plug in USB, XP installs, you re-boot, and just as others say, your camera is a disk drive. Don't buy a PCMCIA adapter! Having used CF etc, I beg to differ with the motorcyle guy--memory stick is better (as most Sony storage devices are). Works as expected. Very light. Fast (no optical zoom to wait for--or bump into). Wish it had ISO800 equivalent and 1 cm thinner, but it fits in my pocket. Also, will not turn on accidentally as my Canon S10 did. And it does not have a proprietary battery that sells for US$100 like my Canon has. The NiMH's seem to go a lot farther, too. If you want a camera you will actually take along, this should be high on your list.
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Summary: Could be better
Review: I wont bore you with the same info as everyone else.
The camera is nice, BUT the pictures could be sharper.
Close up shots are nice, but farther away shots are not as sharp as they should be.
NO editing software is included, big bummer.
Batteries last very nicely, I get way over an hour with it on and taking shots.
Other than that it has nice features and easy to use.
Small and nicely built.
Check out other reviews on the net.
I would say its probably better than the 2.1 HP or Kodaks. If you get it on sale, I would buy it.
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Summary: Great Camera, but the zoom is terrible.
Review: If you are looking for a simple, point and click camera for good quality, no frills pictures, this is your camera. The pictures, for the most part, are great. However, if you want to zoom in, to get certain angles, upgrade to the sony with a zoom lens, the p-51, I think.
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Summary: Great Camera, but the zoom is terrible.
Review: If you are looking for a simple, point and click camera for good quality, no frills pictures, this is your camera. The pictures, for the most part, are great. However, if you want to zoom in, to get certain angles, upgrade to the sony with a zoom lens, the p-51, I think.
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Summary: Great Option.
Review: Im really happy with this digital camera... It tooks great pictures in the dark and its so easy to use... If you dont know what camera want to buy I really suggest this one.
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Summary: Customers Running Windows 2000 Pro Beware!
Review: Just got the Cyber-Shot DSC-P31 from my wife for our anniversary. I was really excited with the present until I started using it. I took about 100 pictures mainly outdoors and when I was ready to upload the pictures to my Dell P4 computer running on Win2k Pro, the nightmare began. I followed the very basic instruction manual and installed the USB driver in order to upload the pictures. With any standard driver installation, InstallShield asked if I would like to restart the computer so the driver will work, I clicked restart and after the startup sequence Win2k Pro arrived at the desktop and immediately I got 3 error messages with Explorer.exe. I shut down the system and restarted again and right away got the same error messages. I restarted the computer once more and this time it gave me different error messsages about memory allocation error and svchost.exe error, sysfader error, csc notifications error. Also at this time I noticed that the regular icons in my Task Tray at the lower right corner (drivers for my printer and Palm) failed to load on start-up. Throughout the day I tried everything from uninstalling the driver to booting in Safe Mode to no avail. I called SONY's absolutely useless tech support and the guy was absolutely clueless and simply pointed me to SONY's even more useless support website. This tech support guy then told me that the latest driver is on the support site and download that and everything will be fine. I went to the site and downloaded the driver and then did a properties check and found the "latest driver" to be about two years old and the driver was created for the older SONY cameras! I continued to try to fix my computer on my own with help from my brother who is a computer systems engineer and he tried everything and nothing worked. As the day went by my computer just became more and more unstable with truly scary and strange error messages. I called SONY again and got this tech support gal and this woman was rude and obnoxious. Before I even finished describing my problems she cut me off and said it is not SONY's problem and it is my computer's fault. I told her I have used computers all my life and installed many drivers and this lousy SONY driver is the only driver that ever created havoc with my computer. She became very rude and told me that it is not her problem and not SONY's problem. She said that as long as I am not an owner of a SONY VAIO computer with this camera she is not going to help me. I asked are there documented cases with SONY's support group regarding Cyber-Shot driver issues with Win2k Pro, she of course denied that there is no such thing, what a flat out lie. After I hung up the phone with this useless SONY tech dope, I used my Macintosh to surf the Web and found hundreds of message board psotings on the horrors of the Cyber-Shot USB driver.... I ended up calling Dell and Dell's awesome tech support walked me through many more elaborate diagnostic routines. After an exausting 2 days calling non-stop to Dell's tech support and Dell's tech support finally threw their hands up and gave up (this includes Dell advanced support for Win2k). The only solution was to reformat my 60 Gig HD and reinstall Win2k from scratch to get rid of all the residual pieces of [junk] that the SONY driver had installed on to my system and causing havoc. So before you buy this camera, please consider the consequences I suffered by a lousy 20 second SONY USB driver install that led to two full days of horror and no support from SONY. I am so appalled that SONY shipped such lousy driver and on top of that such [junky] and useless tech support to boot! Buyers beware!
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: My first digital camera and it is great! Everything I wanted. I am very happy.
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Summary: Not disappointed!
Review: Not disappointed by this camera at all. I was talked into buying it, as I normally run away from Sony products, especially those using Memory Stick. It takes great pictures and connects nicely to my laptop computer. Sure, the 13-hour charge is a drag, but part of that is due to the 1750 mah capacity of the batteries. That's a powerful battery for NIMH AA-size. I've had the camera 2 weeks, shooting all over the place, and am still on the first charge of the battery, filling up my 64 Mb card twice. Maybe the next version will have a built in MP3 player to take advantage of the new 512 Mb memory sticks that will soon be out???
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