Sony DSCF55 CyberShot 2MP Digital Camera

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Summary: Horrible red-eye effect
Review: The red-eye effect is enough reason to consider not buying this camera. If you take many indoor pictures in low-light situations every one of your subjects will have a red-eye! Silly for such an otherwise great camera. Much cheaper cameras have solved this simple problem! If I cannot find a way to reduce this effect easily through software, I will return the camera.

Rating:
Summary: Very nice "small" camera
Review: This thing is one neat camera. Talk about features in a small package. If your looking for a shirt pocket point and shoot camera I think this might be it. The only thing I dont like is the memory stick vs. smartmedia or compact flash. Not that it doesnt work but rather the others are are readily available from many manufacturers. I payed more but comparing it to other cameras I still think I got a good camera at a decent price.

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Summary: Compact, cool features, but produces excessive red-eye
Review: This ultra-compact engineering marvel has some cool features: MPEG capability and swivel lens that allows unobtrusive candids or even self-portraits.
The high price would be more palatable if the flash had a red-eye reducing feature. Planning to photograph the family indoors in settings with low ambient light? Fuhgeddaboutit. Red eye appears more often than not.
Other (less expensive )cameras I've used, such as the Olympus D-340R and Kodak DC260, offer nearly equivalent image quality and produce no serious red-eye problem. The difference? The non-Sonys include a pulsing red eye-reduction flash feature. The CyberShot does not.
I thought seriously about returning this item after the first hundred flash photos. Sony owed me more for this much money.
On the 'Plus' side, compact size and swivel lens allow unobtrusive candids from waist level. No one suspects you're about to photograph them! That helps produce more interesting shots than otherwise.
No viewfinder, but it's not missed. Again, people are used to getting a visual cue before being photographed when the photographer draws camera to face.
With the CyberShot at waist height, the photographer has the advantage. And as long as the viewfinder design prevails, it'll be easy to catch your subjects unaware of the pending 'Snap.'