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Summary: ....
Review: ...I will say yes it loves batteries like any other but it only uses 2 AA not 4 like my old AGFA, Storing HUGE pictures you say? buy a higher memory card and use a lower resolution, I get 488 pictures from my memory stick (32mb) and thats more than enough., Who needs an image bigger than the screen? ... Example?: Went to NJ last week 100+ pictures on 2 Duracell batteries my Agfa woulda been about 6 sets of 4 AA's... Rob
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Summary: Several deficincies.
Review: 1. The price was too high after I invested in a battery and charger which should have been included in the purchase price.
2. The included 4MB memory stick is an insult. It will not even store one uncompressed image. The expensive 65MB stick should be included in the purchase price.
3. Flash pictures are almost invariably too dark.
4. Shots made at "Auto" white balance are almost never as true as at "Indoor" or "Outdood" settings.
5. I sent 3 e-mails asking for clarification of statements in the manual. After 7 months I still haven't gotten an answer.
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Summary: A Great Digital Camera
Review: After much research, I finally selected this camera as my second digital camera. I'm glad I did.Everything great to be said about this camera has already been said: lots of options, great pictures, reasonable price--overall a great value. I've always been impressed with Sony products and this camera is not exception. I use this with Windows XP and there are no problems downloading the images to the computer. Two gripes that have already been mentioned. First, the picture in the viewfinder cuts off part of the picture that's actually taken (ie--the actual picture covers more than that view). If you use the LCD display in back, it gives you an accurate picture, but that eats up the battery. Picture quality is terrific. The 1600x1200 resolution is more than enough, as is the 2 million pixel resolution. You really don't need that much power--especially if you're e-mailing pictures or posting them online (in fact, if you're emailing the pictures you probably want to select a lower resolution so they don't take up as much space). The second gripe concerns the power. Actually, this isn't really a gripe because this exists on ALL digital camera. The people that whine about this must not have researched/tested other digital cameras. They all eat up power. The oft recommended solution has worked for me: spend [$] on Energizer's rechargeable 4-pack (with recharger) and you'll never worry about power. I've left the camera on for almost 2 hours with sporadic use without having to change them. It only uses 2 batteries at a time, so keep the other pair charged and you'll always have a fresh pair. In contrast, I used regular batteries in them and they lasted under 15 minutes. Overall, a solid camera with plenty of features to keep the advanced-amateur happy.--JPN
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Summary: Great thumbnail features in viewscreen
Review: Ditto the rest on memory and battery usage... I get around 50 1600x1200 shots with my 64MB memory stick... and around 45 minutes from the lith-ion battery (using flash and the view screen on every shot)... My only criticism is the need to use the flash on every shot... Pictures are just too dark without it... I'm sure they would be fine with light directed at the target. But this is the same with every other camera I have seen... What really makes this camera stand out is the ability to view pictures as thumbnails in the built in mini screen... as well as some basic zooming and cropping features built right into the camera interface (no PC needed for this)!
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Summary: beautiful
Review: excellent camera, only i have to agree with the battery problem, figure this camera is $100 more than that price (for the accessory pack) but well worth it
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Summary: sony :o)
Review: I am a huge fan of sony, upon walking into my local store there was only 1 camera. Sure you pay like an extra 50 or so for it but you do with all sony products. You pay for the customer support, the quality of merchandise and of course the cool sony logo. The pictures are outstanding. Having tried a few other cameras at similar res. this one is fine, its taken a roasting over the high light levels it needs, indeed they do need to be high, but ive found most other cameras also do. The battery consumption is average-good for an LCD preview display camera, all those moaning should turn the LCD preview display off.
Its easy to handle, easy to transfer images the only thing i woulda liked is a small leather pouch with it. Next an Aibo ;o)
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Summary: Power hungery camera
Review: I am new to digital cameras; however, starting to use this camera required a new battery at almost every three pictures. It is easy to use and I like all other aspects. My computer does not have a USB port thus I am still trying to activate the floppy disc attachment in order to store and then print the photos. I believe these cameras should use less power with easy to use batteries.
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Summary: Great buy
Review: I bought this camera about 6 months ago. After reviewing some of this reviews I included the starter kit and more memory along with the shop. It's a little bit pricey buy but it's the only way to go. I have taken about 1700 photos so far and am very happy with the quality of the images. It`s very simple to use, and the fact that is mapped as a drive in your pc allows you to up-load images again to the camera. I have done this to show some previous photos to a group of friends using the video cable and a TV set (and some beers, of course). Great if you don't print to paper and do not have a PC around. Up-loading to the camera allows you other trick: I have used the camera memory to take some big files from the office to my home computer (pretty much as one of this USB disk are appearing now). I greatly recommend this camera.
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Summary: Great Value
Review: I bought this camera about two weeks ago and I have been very happy with it. The picture quality is very good -- esp. if your using it for web purposes. My only problems are as follows: True, the viewfinder is only about 70% of the actual picture size.
It eats batteries like *crazy*
It doesn't handle low-light pictures very well
Twilight mode -- you have to have a very still subject and a very still hand to take a decent picture in twilight mode (although I've gotten some really cool looking blurs) All in all it's a great camera for the price. I checked out some other more expensive cameras that werent' nearly as good as this Sony.
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Summary: Text mode disappointing
Review: I bought this camera for two reasons:
Taking snaps (friends, holidays etc).
Taking pictures of text (in books, like in a library).
For snaps: the pictures are quite sharp, but I feel you could
get more out of 2.1 mega pixels. I'd like to see a comparison
with a Canon D30.
The colors are quite saturated, especially
the greens, perhaps too saturated.
On the screen the colors look even more saturated. A Nikon 775
at a friends place looked a lot more neutral. Macro mode was quite impressive: no loss of contrast here.
It's great fun getting close ups of flowers etc... For archiving text: The "text" mode saves pictures as black and
white gif files (so quite compressed). However the camera becomes
so slow you might as well forget it. Something like 10 to
15 seconds between shots at high res. Besides which the result
was a lot less readable than the JPEG file. In fact I took
a picture of a page of printed text from an art book and the
result was unreadable in Text mode, and very readable in
JPEG mode. So what's the point.
As for eating batteries, I get about 2 hours with the Lithium
Ion battery (for which I had to shell out a lot more money).
A comparison of battery consumption in a mag showed that this
camera was rather average on that score. I thouroughly disagree about the remark on how difficult it
is to upload the pictures to a PC, in fact it's as easy as
copying and pasting files from one disk to another and looks
just like that on your Windows Explorer.
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