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Summary: Fragility, portability, durability
Review: As an avid photographer, I wanted a digital camera that had the complicated lense features of a regular SLR without the complications of the various storage disks/cards/drives that plague most other digital cameras. This camera looked like the one. It burns to a mini cd, and therefore the orginal images are available immediately on disc without software or cords. It has mini video functions as well as other high tech possibilities.Nice idea, but it failed. This camera is still relying on new burning technology, so the camera is still extremely fragile and definately not portable. I've had the camera 10 months and I've had to fix it three times. First the burning lense broke... any slight shake or bump will cause it to go off course, making the entire camera non-usable. As there is no harddrive within the camera, if you cannot burn to cd then you cannot take pictures. Then the photo lense got jammed (over the course of a month--so photos picked up a blur after a little while) and was unable to function, although I was still able to view pictures. After paying to REPLACE both parts (in excess of $150 each) the burning lense broke again after two months. If you're planning to only take the camera out on special occasions, fine, but if you're planning on doing any sightseeing with it, putting it in a bag and taking it anywhere, it won't hold up.
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Summary: Sony MVC-CD400
Review: Best I've ever seen so far for clearity, ease of use and ability to edit or modify pictures with photo software. Truly enjoy this one, especially the automatic focus, flash, and transfer to my desktop. I'll never use all the space on the cd and if I do, big deal, less than 50 cents a piece for a new cd-r. My photo paper costs more.
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Summary: Sony Makes It Easier
Review: Great camera. Easy to use for beginner and enough to make a pro happy. Very thoughtful to use CD's for storage medium - very convenient, efficient, and love the DD R/W flexibility. Only wish would be to have a variet of auto settings like many of the Nikon series.
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Summary: Great camera!
Review: Having upgraded from the Sony Mavica FD73, the CD400 was quite a jump! Big 4.0 megapixel pictures, with lots of adjustable settings make this camera hard to beat. The only downside is no zooming in on videos (but you can set the zoom beforehand), but then again, you bought this for its still camera capabilities, and not its video capabilities, right? It will even autofocus in complete darkness.
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Summary: Great Camera But Consider A CD300 For Less $$
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: Effective and Efficient !!!
Review: I am a trades person and I take alot of before and after pictures. It's nice to be able to get good shots the first time out. I can't tell you many times I've taken usless pictures of jobs that I could use for future work.
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Summary: Best digital yet
Review: I am an amateur photographer in Florida, and this camera gets incredible wildlife shots and adjusts to all light conditions with excellent color. Saving photos on CDs is SO much better than dealing with memory sticks that only hold a few photos, as I can get 170 shots on a CD at the HIGHEST RESOLTUION, and the CDs are cheap too. It comes with a CD adapter that lets you slip it into your CD drive, but frankly, the adapter is a pain as you have to put the CD in it JUST SO. I use the USB port it comes with instead, and it is much faster. The camera is a little bulkier than most, but it is so well designed, I don't care. The is the first camera I am in love with!
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: I am new to digital photography. After doing internet research, this is the camera that I selected to purchase. It is feature packed, easy to use, and takes beautiful pictures. I highly recommend this camera.
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Summary: powerful
Review: I formerly used a point and shoot 1.3 MP camera that had no LCD screen. I am absolutely amazed at the capabilities of this camera and it continues to impress me. The battery is robust. The discs have ample room for recording an entire vacation (about 200 pictures). The "movie" mode is a bit primitive and I wish I could have more control over bracketing exposures. I also think the time delay between pictures (because they are "recorded" on the cd) makes this not a good choice for the action or sports photographer. I spent some fun time this morning with my wife and kids looking at pictures fed from the camera onto the TV screen as a "slide show"!
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Summary: Great All-Around Camera
Review: I have owned my CD400 for nearly one year. I have never been disappointed with capabilities, quality, user-friendliness, or results. This is a fantastic all-round camera. Use Sony discs, as recommended. Other media is unreliable.
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