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Summary: Great Digital Camera
Review: This is my first digital camera, and I just love it. What attracted me to it was the fact that I can use and reuse the inexpensive CD-RWs, its picture clarity and macro features. I took it on vacation and I use around town, and I love the clarity of the pictures. I don't think I'll be using my 35mm film camera. I've taken hundres of pictures in the two months I've owned it. I've displayed them on the computer & on the television and made CD albums. It has lots of features but it's not difficult to use. I saw complaints about its size but I don't find it too large nor too heavy. With no eye viewfinder, I've gotten used to the using only the LCD though. However, it is difficult to use in a very sunny environment. Overall, I rate the camera GREAT!
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Summary: Forget all that expensive flash memory
Review: Tired of just taking 20 photos and then having to go home and tranfer th pictures to you computer. Well the sun has finally risen over the horizon of digital cameras. This camera uses an 88 cent 8cm mini cd for its film. You get to take 99 pictures per disc at its highest resolution in the least compressed jpg mode. Each picture is around 1.2 megabytes in fine compression max resolution. You can even take uncompressed photos if you want maximum clarity at print sizes over 8x10 with only 9 megabytes used up per picture. Try that with a dimage 7!!! The ability to make 15 second 320x240 mpeg 1 movies is cute. the other format for moving pictures is a multi image gif file. sony calls it clip mode. point your web browser at it to see the frames fly by, just like all those moving ads do it After you buy this camera you should also get a S70 adapter, 52mm lens protector (UV filiter), and a 52mm lens cover (the one that comes with the camera is not 52mm. A .8 netural denisty would also come in handy for those wide apeture blured background shots in the daytime. Since this camera has such a fantastic manual white balance forget about buying the FL-D and the rest of the light correcting filters. just put in one touch mode, point it at your scene and volia the colors look ok. After using it for a few short vacations i discovered i prefered cd-r discs. With a cd-rw you can only reclaim space on the disc if you erase the last photo taken. otherwise its no different then a cd-r unless you want to wipe the whole thing clean with a format. the only benifit of cd-rw is with rotate which actually rewrites over the existing image rather than burning another. The key to night shots is to put it in manual mode a=3.5 s=30 is a good starting point. Its cumbersome to keep haveing to switch back to setup mode to change the preset scene mode to a different one. The cameras brain does not automaticly use the flash when you need a fill light. you will have to waste the first photo to notice you subject is a black siluette, and force the flash for your next shot. The mini cd's are becoming very popular as there are a ton of tiny MP3-CD players commig out which use em
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Summary: Unsupported on most mac internal drives
Review: Unlike what is suggested in the features ---- this is not properly supported for mac machines!!! THIS IS MAINLY DOWN TO THE SIMPLE FACT THAT VIRTUALLY ALL MACS
HAVE EITHER DRAWER OR SLOT LOADING CD DRIVES AND THE MINI CD
FORMAT NEEDS TO BE SPINDLE LOADED - LOADING A MINI CD INTO A SLOT
OR DRAWER LOADING DRIVE IS LIKELY TO DAMAGE THE DRIVE!!!! PS. this will also affect VIRTUALLY ALL Desktop PC Drives Having said that should be good for those with spindle loading cd drives
new iBook and most PC laptops or those with external drives designed for laptops
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Summary: Unsupported on most mac internal drives
Review: Unlike what is suggested in the features ---- this is not properly supported for mac machines!!! THIS IS MAINLY DOWN TO THE SIMPLE FACT THAT VIRTUALLY ALL MACS
HAVE EITHER DRAWER OR SLOT LOADING CD DRIVES AND THE MINI CD
FORMAT NEEDS TO BE SPINDLE LOADED - LOADING A MINI CD INTO A SLOT
OR DRAWER LOADING DRIVE IS LIKELY TO DAMAGE THE DRIVE!!!! PS. this will also affect VIRTUALLY ALL Desktop PC Drives Having said that should be good for those with spindle loading cd drives
new iBook and most PC laptops or those with external drives designed for laptops
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Summary: WOW!
Review: We researched digitals and wanted to stay away from memory sticks, but the resolution on the earlier Sony Mavicas (with a "floppy" instead of a CD) just was not good enough. With the resolution available with this camera (we can get prints up to 20 x 30 if we wanted to!), we knew this was our choice! At the highest resolution, we can get 73 pictures on one disk (still better than a roll of film!), and with each disk comes out cheaper than buying film! Another advantage, is with our 8 month old daughter, we don't have to wait to get film developed to see that we didn't get a good picture of a special moment. We love the timer for "family" shots and all of the options. If you're looking for a light weight camera to put in your pocket, this isn't it, but if you want to take great pictures (who needs to go to department stores to get "baby" pictures taken?!) this is the camera for you. Also, uploading pictures from the disk to Ofoto (Kodak's online website - best selection of prints in my opinion and great deals), does take the better part of a day on my computer with a 56k modem, If you had cable or DSL hookup, it would be faster. That's not the camera's fault, just computer technology. I just start uploading when I'm going to be away for much of the day and don't need the computer or the phone! This is a great camera!
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Summary: Sony Mavica 300 hits jackpot
Review: What can I say,,,this camera is the best. Just a pleasure to use. Great features, takes a bit to get onto remembering how to get to each function, but that is easily overcome once the camera has been used a few times. So quick to download, and the picture quality,,,UNREAL.... Anyone out there,,,...buy this camera,,you WON'T regret it!!!!!!..
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Summary: It doesn't get better than this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Wow! What a camera! Last week I was a not so great photographer & now I feel like a Pro!!!! Storing the pics on cdr's & cdrw's is very convenient & easy to access no matter what computer I'm using. It takes great pics in all lighting situations. bright & lo light turn out great! I took a pic in my kitchen with the light streaming in from the right & normally with my old camera I'd have never got the shot, it was one of the greatest pics I've ever taken. Portrait shots are wonderful too. I took another pic of my daughter that you would have thought was taken in a studio. & Printing the pics, Wow! these photos are beautiful on paper!! Even 8" X 10" pict turn out great! The camera is easy to use & once you get used to all the options it's very easy to manuver from one thing to the next. I've had a lot of fun using the mpeg movie & clip modes. They are easy to use & it's neat to play back right on the camera. Go ahead & get the Starter kit that comes with the camera. You'll want to have the extra battery, case, & discs. I've also purchased the portable battery charger. I like that much better for charging my empty batteries. when charging the battery hooked up in the camera you can't use the camera to take pics. I've been using offbrand discs, not the sony's & have had great success with them. Check out cdroutlet (online) for plastic sleeves (50 for 3 bucks) & jewel cases (30 cents ea) they also have cdrw's for 1.10ea & cdr's too. I have an old cdrom drive & was unable to read cdrw's but, it does read the cdr's. (it's about 4 yrs old, time for a new drive) I've tried my cdrw's in 3 other friends computers & they worked fine in theirs. When I'd heard a few complaints about the size & weight of the camera I was expecting it to be really big when I received it. On the contrary. I think it's fine, not too big & not really heavy either. All around you just can't go wrong with this camera, it's easy to use, takes fabulous pictures, & the media is so handy. Hope this was helpful. I think you'll love the camera!
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