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Summary: superb camera
Review: The camera has superb picture quality. It has SCN modes, that takes amazing pictures at night, snow, beaches, and in very bright condition. Live Histograms helps in taking good pictures and setting light focus. The camera also shows shutter time for its current setting. Its a good feature for doing good photography. P8 has MACRO mode that takes superb closeups. For the naive photographers, it has auto option. You can take movie of 640x480 with sound till you fill up your memory. It is a superb option. The movie is very clear in daylight. No other camera with this specification, in market can take better quality of indoor pictures as Sony Cybershots.
The camera is small and light in wieght. Sony has once again come up with the product that rocks in the market. I think its worth paying for this camera. Camera comes with lots of options that helps in taking good pictures at different times. I recommend you to take tripod and extra memory stick.
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Summary: Quality Camera!
Review: The DSC P8 is awesome. Just check it out and compare it to the others out on the market, and this hands down is the best (for its price and specs) out there. The competition is crushed. Why? Just take a look at it, and then take a look at the price for what you get. I personally like this product also because it's by Sony, and they put a lot of work into thier cameras. It's so detailed, sleek and cool looking!!! That's my main point. It's also very high quality and durable. On top of that, its most important part, its loaded with all the features for an average person, who wants to take simple pictures! You wanna take advanced pictures and movies with your camera also? SURE! It can do that to! It's packed basically. Why to get this camera: 1) Beats all the others on the market! (ok, that might sound a little redundant)
2) You get so much with this camera!
3) It looks so stylish!
And there are more I'm just too tired now... Bottom Line: If youre shopping for digi cams, go out and check all of them out and then take a look at this one (P8). You'll be stunned at how great it works and looks. GREAT CAMERA!! ZEE BEST!
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Summary: I purchased this camera in July 2003
Review: The DSCP8 is the first digital camera i have ever owned. This summer I made a promise to myself to buy a digital camera and a digital camcorder. I purchased the camera first and selected Sony because of goods reviews and because I have a Sony VAIO computer. For someone who knew very little about digital photography, it was surprisingly easy to learn how to operate this camera. All of the controls are easy to get at and to understand. The camera takes very good pictures and is not large and bulky like the DSC72,92 etc. However, it is not too small either. The software that is included makes it very easy to transfer images to my computer via USB. Using USB was not my first choice but I have to use it becuase my one year old Sony VAIO can only read regular memory sticks and not the memory stick pro format. I have found that pictures taken at the highest quality usually take up about 1.3 to 1.8 megs per picture. I really like the movie capabilities of this camera. You can take movies in two image qualities:normal and email. The normal .mpg file will be quite large. A 256 meg memory pro stick can hold one 10 1/2 minute movie and this file will be approximately 240 megs in size. You can transfer these movies to your PC or watch them on your tv with appropriate cables. The camera comes with a USB cable and an S-video cable for the tv. As you are watching the movie on the TV or viewing pictures, you can zoom in/out, pause, fast forward, rewind, etc using the controls on the camera. This has worked so well for me that I am no longer going to buy a digital camcorder. I purchased an accessory kit with the camera that included an extra battery (even though I have not needed it yet), a case for the camera and a case for memory sticks for another $79. I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend this camera to everyone. You may also want to look at the DSC10 which is a 5 megapixel camera for only $50 more and is the same size. I did not get that one because I had to buy a new printer and other things at the same time and had to stay on budget.
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Summary: Great Camera for its Price
Review: This camera is a good buy as long as one use it correctly
and properly. Almost of the pictures I've taken are good
except the one that I've taken under a bright fluorescent
light. But overall, I'm satisfied with its performance and I didn't regret buying this camera.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!!!
Review: This camera may be cheap, good, but lets get the story behind the company. One day my Sony stopped taking pictures. Physically it worked, the lens came out, the flash flashed, but no images! Warranty Hell! So, I ship it out, and get charged $30 for a warranty evaluation that says I have liquid damage that voids the warranty, and it will cost $500 to repair! Whats wrong with this pic??? Well after some bantering, we decided that condensation (I shot pictures in 30 below weather) could have been the cause. Well, the manual warns of condensation and tells you what to do, but doesn't come CLOSE to indicating it will damage the unit! But Sony, on the phone, insists it will. So, I request they do not repair it, figure its good for parts, or just to use the memstick and display, or maybe find someone else to repair it. Well, unit comes back, lens has a hard time moving in position. In a nutshell, worse than when I sent it. Sony refuses to acknowledge the fact, and refuses to do anything without $500 for a repair. Remember the Boston Tea Party? Someone should dump every shipload of their products and let them deal with water damage.
What a pathetic company!
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Summary: Great little device
Review: This is a great camera. I took 2 weeks deciding between Canon A70, S400, Nikon Coolpix 3100, Kodak 6340 and this P8 and finally decided to buy it. It is very similar to the A70 but has a Lithium battery rather than AA and is about 100 grams lighter (and also 100 Euro cheaper in Turkey). The picture quality is very good and even an amateur like me can figure out how the use the camera in 10 minutes without even looking at the manual and start shooting great photos. The USB connection and the software included in the package is very convenient although it is not the fastest available. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Good camera.
Review: This is by far the best camera I have ever owned. The camera is jam-packed with features and can take great pictures in almost any conditions. I recently took it with me on a trip to Disneyland with a 128 mb. memory stick which was plenty of room (about 80 pictures, or 5 min. of video on highest quality settings). The detail in the pictures was amazing and the color was impecible. I highly recomend this camera to anyone looking for a digital camera, it's quality and functionality seem to be well above most cameras in the price range. I also find the video mode to be a very nice plus, as it is very high quality as well.
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Summary: amazing pictures
Review: This is by far the best camera I have ever owned. The camera is jam-packed with features and can take great pictures in almost any conditions. I recently took it with me on a trip to Disneyland with a 128 mb. memory stick which was plenty of room (about 80 pictures, or 5 min. of video on highest quality settings). The detail in the pictures was amazing and the color was impecible. I highly recomend this camera to anyone looking for a digital camera, it's quality and functionality seem to be well above most cameras in the price range. I also find the video mode to be a very nice plus, as it is very high quality as well.
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Summary: Great price, excellent results!
Review: This is my first digital camera, however before I purchased it, I did a lot of research and tried the various ones available in the market. Ok first off, if you are not planning to enlarge the picture greater than 8" by 10" [inches], then you dont need a camera with more than 3 MP[mega-pixel] resolution. The greater the MP, the more you can enlarge a digital picture without causing to blur. Just for comparison, the 'old' film [35 mm] camera took a 1 MP picture, so practically with a 3 MP camera, you can enlarge it about 2-3 times without causing it to blur, so make sure you keep that in mind before going for the 8 MP camera. Next, the zoom....consider only the optical zoom of a camera to get a great picture. The digital zoom, is a computer enhanced image, which is not so great.
Having said all this, this camera is unbelievable! The results are incredible. It allows you to take pictures in an email mode, which stores two copies of the same picture, one for emailing and one for printing[full size]. Also the flash is quite extraordinary. The best is the result with movie mode. The movie is with sound which is also incredible. However you would need at least 128 MB memory stick to get a 4 and a half minute video. Dont get fooled by the 90 min video advertisement, that is only in VGA mode, and quite unacceptable for viewing or showing it to friends. Other than that, the camera works great, results everyone will enjoy and you will cherish. Sony ROCKS!!
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Summary: The Ferrari of Digital Cameras
Review: This is the Ferrari of digital cameras! Why? It's powerful, stylish, fast, and has a great performance. This summer I took 2 trips, one week long camp, and the other to Europe. I would have to say I didn't know how great this camera was until I was on those vacations taking snapshots of everything! First was the response I got. Almost everyone in my campsite or tour group said, "Whoa, nice camera!" No surprise though, this IS a nice camera! On top of it, when I compared the camera and photo quality other people had on their digital cameras, I noticed mine was sooo much better. Not to brag, but the P8 really did the job and impressed others. This camera is worth every penny, and works like a dream. In a way, it has kind of spoiled me. This is my first digital camera, and really makes me optimistic about digital cameras, when in reality, not all cameras are as good as this one. Man, I had some great vacations with a few hundred great pictures to remember it by with this amazing, compact, stylish camera! This is the Ferrari of digital cameras! The Rolls Royce! The Mercedes Benz! THIS is a Digital Camera!
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