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Summary: MVC 250 Great Camera User Friendly
Review: ... I like the ease of use, I can view the pictures as I take them and delete them if I want. With the included cables I can view the pictures on my TV or download through a USB port. I have been happy with the battery life, I did buy an additional AC charger, and a 2nd battery($...). Normally you use a cable to charge the battery in the camera. It tells you in the viewfinder about how long you have left on the battery in minutes of useable life. I would not hessitate to recommend this camera to any one, at 2.0 +/- megapixel it takes great quality pics and movies. Buy the big carry case for all the extra cables and stuff.
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Summary: compatibility with Mac
Review: Don't be fooled into thinking this camera is easily compatible with a Macintosh. You cannot read the CD's on a SuperDrive. You cannot read the CD's on a Mac running anything prior to OS X. I am still looking for a fix for this, but as of this time I am not able to use the CD's on my old PowerBook, which unfortunately does not have a USB port either. I like using the camera, though.
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Summary: Awesome Camera
Review: Don't miss this camera. This is the greatest camera. Everyone I ever shown this camera to has loved it and some has even brought it. It has everything that a person who is not a pro would want!!!! The CD is easy to do, transfer, and send pictures. The resolution, even at the lowest setting, is great. The CD could hold as many as 640 pictures. One of the wonderful features is having a different CD for every group of picture I take to keep them organized. (For example, family, band, church etc.)
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Summary: Super Digital Camera
Review: Have used this camera in my classroom for the past year, picture quality better than any other camera in the school. Easy to use by studetns and teacher. Love the ease of CD storage
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Summary: Finally A Digital Solution That Works On All Levels
Review: I am a professional radiographer and photographer (25 years now) and I used both the CD400, CD300, as
well as a Nikon Coolpix for this year's field research season x-raying mummies in Peru. This means the cameras
were pushed hard.....blowing sand, huge contrast ranges, high resolution radiographs needed, fast manual
control of radical light conditions, etc.....essentially most of the tough conditions and imaging requirements you
can imagine. Here's what I found: The Sony Mavica CD300 beat them all. It's not the most expensive or the best resolution but we all thought it
did the best job. Mavica CD400: best resolution but extremely slow recording time made it impossible to work with most of the
time....the CD300 often got 3-4 shots while the 400 was recording one. Mavica CD300: not the best resolution, but now that I've done some prints for publication from it's highest res
setting I will not be buying any more 400s....just not a significant enough difference, plus it's not as heavy or
bulky. Nikon Coolpix: not in the running by comparison with the Sonys....although it is more lightweight....we are
buying mini CDs for 33 cents each in bulk... and getting 140-180 high res images per CD.....they are so easy to
format, initialize, and copy on any CD burner that I can't believe we even considered using memory stiks, or
USB downloads. The best features are common to both the Sony Mavica CD300 and 400 series though.....manual control of the
images, excellent close up abilities, decent wide angle (which can be enhanced with add-on lenses if necessary),
and both rapid video and automatic functions with night focusing for flash, etc., etc. Finally! There is a great digital camera.
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Summary: Don't buy this camera
Review: I bought this camera for the convenience and portability of the writable CD, but the laser was thrown off just 3 months after I bought the camera. Apparently, this camera has a high failure rate (1 in 10) because of the delicacies of the CD writable construction. One other negative aspect of the CD media is that writing to the CD is slower than to other memory devices and reading the CD (when previewing images in the camera) is also slow. I think there's more value in the Canon G2 - most of the same features, but with 4.0 Megapixels and a more solid construction. That's what I traded in my Sony MVC-CD250 for...
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Summary: Mavica 250, excellent
Review: If you want a versatile and functional digital camera that gives
you unlimited storage this is the one. The 3" CD .jpg storage format can be read on any computor with cdrom drive. You are not
limited to usb although it too is available. Print out with a standard printer useing photo paper is good through excellent! I've done portrait work with it as well as landscape, and have been very satisfied with the results.
The storage media is resonably priced and available. A package of ten cd-r's is under [$$] at [local stores]. The function menu is resonably easy to understand and use. It does well with landscapes, snapshots of the grandkids, portraits and doe's very well with closeups. I've used it to record and print documents as well.
The only draw back I've found is the auto-focus delay and the record delay, which is common with most auto-focus cameras and digital; And I would like to see an add-on telephoto lens for longer shots; though the 2x3 optical,digital zoom does quite well. I have recommended this unit to several people as a first camera for snapshots, landscapes or portraits.
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Summary: Mavica 250, excellent
Review: If you want a versatile and functional digital camera that gives
you unlimited storage this is the one. The 3" CD .jpg storage format can be read on any computor with cdrom drive. You are not
limited to usb although it too is available. Print out with a standard printer useing photo paper is good through excellent! I've done portrait work with it as well as landscape, and have been very satisfied with the results.
The storage media is resonably priced and available. A package of ten cd-r's is under [$$] at [local stores]. The function menu is resonably easy to understand and use. It does well with landscapes, snapshots of the grandkids, portraits and doe's very well with closeups. I've used it to record and print documents as well.
The only draw back I've found is the auto-focus delay and the record delay, which is common with most auto-focus cameras and digital; And I would like to see an add-on telephoto lens for longer shots; though the 2x3 optical,digital zoom does quite well. I have recommended this unit to several people as a first camera for snapshots, landscapes or portraits.
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Summary: IT LOSES PICTURES!!!
Review: Not sure if anyone else in this reviewer pile has seen this, but I have had several "life events" including birthdays, my son's sonogram, and others that the camera shows upon review through its display the pictures you have taken. However, upon connecting it to the USB interface, they disappear. Disconnecting from the USB cable does not get the pictures back. Can you believe that Sony would release a product like this? I bought this device for the ease of use, USB capability, and the CDR/CDRW format. However, for anyone wanting a reliable camera buy a $12 disposable! You can only rely on this unit giving you permanent digital pictures 91.2% of the time. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't buy this unit. There are far smaller units at a fraction of the price with 100% reliability. Granted, some of them don't use CDR/CDRW technology but memory sticks are fine with me it they don't lose pictures (and the cameras are quite smaller).
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Summary: IT LOSES PICTURES!!!
Review: Not sure if anyone else in this reviewer pile has seen this, but I have had several "life events" including birthdays, my son's sonogram, and others that the camera shows upon review through its display the pictures you have taken. However, upon connecting it to the USB interface, they disappear. Disconnecting from the USB cable does not get the pictures back. Can you believe that Sony would release a product like this? I bought this device for the ease of use, USB capability, and the CDR/CDRW format. However, for anyone wanting a reliable camera buy a $12 disposable! You can only rely on this unit giving you permanent digital pictures 91.2% of the time. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't buy this unit. There are far smaller units at a fraction of the price with 100% reliability. Granted, some of them don't use CDR/CDRW technology but memory sticks are fine with me it they don't lose pictures (and the cameras are quite smaller).
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