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Summary: Poor Auto White Balance ( Blue Cast)
Review: The Phil Askey / dpreview.com review of the Sony Cybershot DSC-V1 concludes that the camera's auto white balance is "poor" in "outdoors indirect sunlight" conditions. I decided not to buy this camera.
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Summary: nice cam! what's up with software
Review: I had the SDC v1 for 3 week.
PROS:
-Nice design/very stylish
-The auto mode picture quaility is excellent. I had canon s30 and the dsc v1 blows the canon away in auto mode.
-controls are nicely mounted
-power on and youre ready to shoot in 1 second. other digi cam can take 3 sec or longer to shoot.(like canon) -With so much functions on this camera. you will not find a camera this compact with this much cool functionsCONS;
-the software IMAGE MIXER which comes with the CAmera is very cheap. I had Caonon s30 software which was excellent. This sony software stinks bad. I paid 600 dollars for the cam. It should come with proper software to match the camera of this magnitude.
-The flash being pop up is mentioned in many reviews, however, i was ok with it as long as i knew not to put my fingers on top of it.
-The manual is poorly made. the canon came with 2 diffrent manual for the cam and software and 2 more in spanish. Sony dosnt even give a manual for their software. HOW SAD! You may think this is simple but, NOPE!!!
-I have to turn on the camera before i'm able to upload, with canon this was done in automatic.
-charging your battery is a joke. you have to buy a seperate battery charger. ohterwise, your camera becomes the charger.(YOu can only charge the batter by hooking up your camera to an adapter) SOny trying to save money in the wrong place. CONCLUSION: this camera is an excellent camera for anything you want to do. however, I am very upset at SONY not the camera it self.THis being the reaons for only 4 stars. SONY dos not take detailed consideration when makeing accesories that comes with cam.
I would recommend this cam. its nice camera,but thats all youre going to get.
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Summary: Excellent little camera
Review: The camera's not exactly pocket sized, but it is fairly small. It takes great pictures both indoors and outside. The macro is fairly good. Overall I would say that it's a great camera for an enthusiast. I, so far, have no complaints other than the proprietary battery and storage medium.
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Summary: Excellent color balance and resolution, poor battery life.
Review: I have an SLR that I use for "serious" photography, and a couple of small pocket sized film cameras that I use for "street" photography. This Sony is my first digital camera. I use it in a digital workflow with Adobe Photoshop 7 and a Canon i950 photo printer. The color tonality and resolution from the Carl Zeiss lens is spectacular. Prints through the digital workflow easily match the best I've made from my Nikon SLR with prime (non-zoom) lenses. Photoshop makes it easy to edit the pictures, fixing light reflection spots, framing problems, etc. Drawbacks: the battery life is not great. I quickly exhausted my battery on an afternoon-long shooting expedition. I've since bought a spare battery. The camera is small and somewhat hard to hold steady. Also, if you are in your 40s or older, it's hard to see the LCD screen without bifocals. The standard 32MB Memory Stick is a joke. Get a larger Memory Stick Pro - they come in sizes up to 1GB. But don't let the nits distract you. If you are a serious amateur photographer, this is an excellent camera for you. I can't overemphasize how happy I am with the quality of the prints made using this camera and the Canon printer.
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Summary: A fantastic camera with only one serious drawback
Review: The Sony DSC-V1 is my first digital camera and I absolutely love it. I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I have so far only one serious complaint. I bought a Sony camera in particular because I wanted to be able to take short mpeg movies as well as photos. The Sony apparantly is the only camera that can take mpeg movies of longer than 3 minutes. However, this camera only offers two movie sizes: 160 (for e-mailing), and 640 (full size). The 160 size is so small it's hard to see -- when enlarged to 2x in Real Player, it gets very fuzzy. The 640 is lovely to look at but the file size is HUGE. I recorded for 16 minutes and was close to filling up a 512 mb memory stick! That size just isn't practical for anything -- I can't take a movie small enough to e-mail, or even burn onto a CD -- I'd have to buy a DVD burner to burn even the shortest movie in this size. What I really need is the 340 size movie, available in other cameras (my cousin's Canon has it). That is my only really serious complaint with this camera. The other things (position of the flash, hard to find good grip for left hand, expensive memory, and reds do seem to be a little bit extra-saturated) are workable.
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Summary: It's a Sony.
Review: Excellent picture quality, I am no expert, yet I can easily see the diffence between my pictures and my friends' Canon and Kodak cameras. Size is pretty decent, I carry it everywhere in my pocket ( that's if I don't mind a bulky pocket though ). The night vision makes people go aaaawwww, but is not as practical as it initially sounds. I got a 256Mb pro stick for movies, and I am pretty happy with it. I could use a stronger optical zoom, and certainly a different location for the built-in flash. Bottomline, I love my camera. It's helping me store my memories in better quality than ever.
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Summary: Excelente cámara, magníficas fotos y sorprendentes funciones
Review: Esta es una excelente cámara digital automática.
1 La óptica de Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar Lens es excelente, inigualable, felicitaciones a Sony por la alianza.
2 La resolución de 5 MP es más que suficiente para las fotos familiares.
3 El tamaño es muy conveniente, ya que cabe en cualquier parte
3 Los videos con sonido son espectaculares
4 La función de visión nocturna y el holograma láser son sorprendentes para una cámara tan pequeña y de gran utilidad.
5 Las baterías son muy duraderas
6 Algunas críticas que no le quitan méritos: el encuadre a través del visor es ligeramente más pequeño que el real visto por la pantalla de la cámara; las fotografías son numeradas en orden sucesivo y no incluyen la fecha en la numeración.
En pocas palabras: Excelente
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Summary: I Love this camera, but you need to read the small print
Review: Up to yesterday I was not happy with the battery in this camera. I bought it in December of 2003 and by July of 2004 the battery would not take a charge. The second battery (at $70.00) charge up to a week before Christmas and then would not charge either. I read through the reviews yesterday looking for someone with a similar problem and found none. This sent me scratching my head back to the owners manual. What I found was a message in very small print on page 10 about cleaning the DC plug on the charger or your battery won't charge. I did, and they did! I now own two very fully charged batteries. My review yesterday was 4 stars for the camera and the 5th deleated for the bad batteries. I would now like to make my review a very happy 5 stars.
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Summary: Hold off
Review: This camera really had all of the potential in the world, but sadly, it hasn't lived up to my expectations
Yes, when done under daylight, the pictures are beautiful ---- but the indoor and nighttime performance is what disappoints me
The flash is WAY TOO STRONG, thus overblowing many of the nighttime shots
In addition, I often set my own aperatures with this camera, but in having a mind of its own, the camera will re-adjust the aperture, right as I take the shot
ugh
I love Sony products - but I recommend staying away from this one
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Summary: Title
Review: I have not noticed an extra special feature on the descriptions. It's a real pro one. Buttons work randoom. Oh yes!, I am VERY satisfied with my camera. How couldn't I be ? Sony tested it ONE HUNDRET TIMES before I bought it.
Honestly... the other features make an excellent camera.
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