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Summary: Sony MVC-CD200 -- A breakthrough in digital cameras
Review: I researched digital cameras for six months before buying the Sony MVC-CD200. The CD is what sold me on this one. I didn't want to have to deal with USB connections and special software just to view my pictures. I was also worried that whatever digital camera I bought might become quickly outdated. I don't think that's going to happen with the Sony CD cameras. This is an absolutely incredible camera for both serious and casual photographers. I'm an artist and had wanted to be able to take daily pictures of my work in progress, as well as reference photos. For me, this is the ultimate. The 2.1 megapixels provide photos that are actually superior in many ways to the ones I've taken with my film cameras. For instance, I can see thickness of paint, brush strokes and a full range of color in my paintings. I haven't even bothered to install the software that Sony provides with the camera. All I do is finalize the CD, pop it into the CD-ROM and pull up the pictures either through Microsoft Publisher 2000 or Quark Express. One disc easily stores 70 pictures shot at maximum file size of 1600-1200. I don't think I'd really want more than that on one disc because it makes looking through all of them faster. I print them on an HP Deskjet 1220C using their premium photo paper. I've been amazed at the results I've been able to get indoors with no flash. For instance, I took one of the light from a single lamp in a room on an overcast morning. Gorgeous. The camera is very easy to use. I would recommend going through the manual at some length to take full advantage of all it can do. I really think the Sony CD cameras represent a breakthrough in digital photography for a wide range of people.
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Summary: If This Camera Were A Man I Would Marry Him
Review: I simply cannot say enough good things about this camera. I got it for a three-week trip to Europe (took 700+ photos without a hitch, you can't say that about other digital image storage devices) and now I find that I am taking it everywhere! I did not find the problems one previous reviewer had with vibration during "finalization" of the cd's. I finalized on a train, and worried about the vibration of the moving vehicle, but did not have any problems at all. Maybe Kitty should be kept out of the room during the process (which takes only a couple of minutes!) I have enjoyed all aspects of this camera in the past three months that I have had it. The ease-of-use, the relative cheap expense of the storage device (I forgot a CD on a recent junket and just bopped into a local office store to purchase a disc for about $3) and the optical quality of the camera makes this a great investment for someone who wants a good, solid camera to accompany you across town or around the world.
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Summary: Great !
Review: It's great Camera. Cool, compact, smart and unexpensive ! I want it !
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Summary: Great Pictures When It Works
Review: Okay so the price IS a bit steep, but there are plausible reasons and results. First the 2.2 meg resolution will give you a SHARPER photo that will allow you much better results and allow for much more versility in enlarging and editing. second (and this is a point that I have had one Hell of a time tracking down what is possibly the best reason, I wanted a "format" that would allow for the sharpest image to be easily transfered to my PC. now the Mavica FD series using the floppy disk was where I started, but the resolution wasn't very good,then I moved on towards memory sticks and the like, but that necessitates the use of USB 's etc. where there are the usual complications and time downloading, a slight loss(?) of image sharpness and so on. Now this camera uses a 3-inch miniCD which supposedly (as it turns out) you merely stick into you CD-ROM tray and download directlyinto your PC!!! My piece of cake. The only improvement that I can see would be the next higher model with its 3.3 meg resolution, but I simply don't need THAT much for [that much money]. (oh, make sure you get the starter bag/kit!!! And make sure you get at least another 3 disks for whatever!!!)
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Summary: need digital stills for professional setting?
Review: Okay so the price IS a bit steep, but there are plausible reasons and results. First the 2.2 meg resolution will give you a SHARPER photo that will allow you much better results and allow for much more versility in enlarging and editing. second (and this is a point that I have had one Hell of a time tracking down what is possibly the best reason, I wanted a "format" that would allow for the sharpest image to be easily transfered to my PC. now the Mavica FD series using the floppy disk was where I started, but the resolution wasn't very good,then I moved on towards memory sticks and the like, but that necessitates the use of USB 's etc. where there are the usual complications and time downloading, a slight loss(?) of image sharpness and so on. Now this camera uses a 3-inch miniCD which supposedly (as it turns out) you merely stick into you CD-ROM tray and download directlyinto your PC!!! My piece of cake. The only improvement that I can see would be the next higher model with its 3.3 meg resolution, but I simply don't need THAT much for [that much money]. (oh, make sure you get the starter bag/kit!!! And make sure you get at least another 3 disks for whatever!!!)
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Summary: This camera is a winner!
Review: This camera has my vote for one of the best cameras made by Sony, or for that matter anybody! The largest I enlarge my pictures is 8 x 10 and it's perfect for that! When you figure what is the size most people think of for a picture, its 8 x 10, what else! The control of this camera rivals 35mm, and then the camera is adaptable to various filter systems. Who could what anything else!...Julian Gang
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Summary: This camera is a winner!
Review: This camera has my vote for one of the best cameras made by Sony, or for that matter anybody! The largest I enlarge my pictures is 8 x 10 and it's perfect for that! When you figure what is the size most people think of for a picture, its 8 x 10, what else! The control of this camera rivals 35mm, and then the camera is adaptable to various filter systems. Who could what anything else!...Julian Gang
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Summary: Great Pictures When It Works
Review: This camera takes very good pictures and has a great concept for storage that is by far cheaper per picture than most digital cameras, but it is UNRELIABLE. My camera has been broken with the same issue THREE TIMES in one year. The issue is a bad power module. Sony Customer NO Service was not helpful in resolving this issue the first time after I had the camera for 1 week. It took them 6 weeks to return the camera, eating up the 90 day labor warranty and causing me to have to purchase the extended warranty so I would not have exorbitant labor charges if it needed to be fixed again. Do not purchase this camera if you want to be sure to get pictures at those important times in life. If you do, please have another camera on standby so you have another way of capturing the moments.
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Summary: An amazing camera, if only it was a little smaller.
Review: This is the second digital camera I've owned. It takes great pictures and you can store a ton of them (I get ~300 at 1200x1600) on a cd. It takes great pictures in automatic mode but being able to kick it into full manual (shutter speed, focus, aperture) means you can get pictures in circumstances that the point and click mode would choke on. The fact that you don't have to worry about uploading images off a memory card makes it the perfect camera for long trips. I took it and a couple cds to Thailand for two months and came back with a ton of great pictures. Best of all I didn't have to take a laptop or ration my picture taking. I also took it on a month long bike trip and it worked great. The long battery life and fast charge time are also strong features in it's favor. It's solidly constructed, a year and a half later it's still clicking away. One reviewer was complaining about drivers. HE IS TOTALLY WRONG! It sounds like he didn't have a USB port, you don't ever have to take the cds out of the camera. The device is a USB CD/RW drive, you plug it in and it shows up as a cdrom drive. I've used it with Win2000 and 98 and it's fine. No [bad] program to use to get the photos off, you just drag a copy off the cd and onto your computer. With a little poking you can plug it into your computer and actually burn the cds (though they are the little ones). As I said in the subject the problem with the camera is that it's just too big. The cd drive makes it a funny shape that's kind of a pain. Also the lack of an optical viewfinder [is sort of bad], it's a sacrifice to the cd drive. That said I'd buy this camera again in a minute.
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Summary: Full features, & full flexibility for a not so full price.
Review: Wow! Leave it up to Sony to show that just as the digital camera market had just appeared to "flame-out", no, wait, there's still new directions to go. Though you may never use them all, this camera has every feature you ever wanted in a camera for a price that stays below four figures. My one question though: Why didn't Sony just come out with these instead of the FD Mavicas? Not that there's anything really wrong with them (they seem to come from a similar philosophy, after all), but it makes you wonder. With that out of the way: This is a great camera, well worth the price tag. I also reccommend getting the CD Mavica starter kit, primarily for the extra battery & carry case, because once you get it, you'll never want to leave it behind you.
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