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Sony Cybershot DSCP100 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom| Manufacturer: | Sony | | List price: | $449.95 |
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| Sony Cybershot DSCP100 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom |
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Good camera! |
| This is a good entry level digital camera for those on a budget. But if you are a hardcore photography junkie then pass up this one. I bought this camera just for shooting. Film cameras are a dying breed and I could edit my digital pictures on my computer, not to mention how easy it is to send pics on e-mails. Well so far I had no problems with the camera, easy to point and shoot. There are many great features on it, my favorite is the candlelight setting, which makes pictures look soft when taken in a dim room. Overall this makes a great first digital camera, but for experts, not for you. |
| Sony Cybershot DSCP100 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom - Sony |  |
Great consumer-level point-and-shoot digital camera |
| If you are just an amateur photographer that is either finally switching from analog to digital or just want a decent camera to take on family vacations or school projects, this is a great camera. It is small, lightweight, and does just about anything you could possibly need it to do. It won't take pictures of hummingbirds feeding across a forest bed, but it will take a decent photo of the grand canyon. The quality of the 3x optical zoom is really good, but the picture is sacrificed slightly as you try to artifically enhance it with the digital zoom. The battery life is good enough to take on extended trips from your hotel or on a hike without having to carry around a charger or spare batteries. If you plan on taking lots of high quality large photos, you will need to get a larger memory stick (64 MB will work, 128 MB even better), but the memory stick it comes with will be enough to photograph your child's birthday party as long as you download the photos onto your computer afterwards. At 5.1 MegaPixels, this camera will pick up hairs on a persons head and it will even be able to define a flea in the hair. 5.1 MP is enough to make clear 8x10 prints. There are 6+ MegaPixel cameras out there, but at the consumer level there is really no point in spending the money on one (7.2 MP won't come in handy unless you are making 15x20 prints or are a student taking pictures through a microscope or a telescope--it is more of a prosumer level) All around, while Sony's camera lenses may not compare with Canon or Olympus, Sony makes up for it with their superior knowledge of how to make a great consumer digital device and turn it into a decent digital camera. It is a great value for the price. |
| Sony - Sony Cybershot DSCP100 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom | |
good, small camera |
I got the P100 (for free using Sony Visa bonus points), as a companion to a three-year-old F707, which is a wonderful camera (at the high end of the non-pro spectrum in its time) but sometimes too big to take on a walk with a toddler. I was in some ways pleasantly surprised. In every respect except of taking still pictures, the P100 is better. That's technological evolution at work: much nicer movie mode (excellent quality of video and sound!), a nicer directional pad/selector, a handy stand-alone delete button, faster picture taking, accepts MS Pro cards, nicer LCD. Photos aren't as good, especially indoors, but that is to be expected with the tiny lens and small flash of the P100--but tiny is why I got it, so I have no complaints.
Outdoor pictures can be excellent. Indoor pictures can be quite good if one is careful. As always, some pictures won't come out, but that's my fault as photographer. I am quite happy--for my purposes, the camera does the job quite well. It's not going to produce pictures that a high end consumer camera can (the 5MP spec is certainly not everything--the F707 is also a 5MP camera), but if one wants a small camera that one can carry around in a pocket and quickly fire up whenever something picture-worthy shows up, this is a good choice.
I particularly like the focusing spotlight, because it lets me know what the camera is pointed at without my having to look at the LCD/viewfinder, which for certain shots is nice. I wish it came with some sort of a case, but I guess people might want different ones. (I just use a draw-string little cloth bag that a flash for my F707 came with.)
I'd like to address two complaints in other reviews.
1. Focus issues. Some reviewers complain of focusing problems. My impression is that this is when one is taking pictures in multi-area focus mode, which averages out the data in different areas, and which can ensure that no areas is in focus. This is the only focus mode available in the easy-shoot mode (the one with the "camera" icon). I tend to switch to the program mode (the one with the "P") and set everything on automatic except make the focus be center-area only. Then I point to the part I want in focus, press the shutter half way, compose the picture, press the shutter all the way. One really does need to control which part of the picture is to be in focus--no camera can read one's mind! And outdoor this is a lesser issue because with more light the lens will tend to be stopped up more, and hence have a wider focus range. My impression is that the focus might still not be perfect in low-light conditions, but I haven't tested this thoroughly.
2. Ergonomics. Out of the box, the camera is hard to hold in one hand when taking landscape-orientation pictures. For portrait, I think it's fine, and it's fine for landscape with two hands (which one really should use for optimal stability anyway). For someone like me with big hands, it's easy to cover up part of the flash when holding with one hand, and the weight is inconveniently distributed. But there is a way of fixing the ergonomics: egrips (www.egrips.com). These are very grippy sticky things to keep electronics from sliding out of pockets, etc. If one applies them in the right places on the camera (I put a strip vertically along the rear right and two horizontally along the front, where the right hand makes contact with the camera), my grip became MUCH surer, and I could hold the camera reasonably comfortably without obscuring the flash. It seemed worth the ten bucks plus shipping for the egrips, as it fixed the ergonomic issue. (I have no connection with the people who make the egrips, but they're a good deal, I think. The camera kit comes with a lot more stickies than one needs for the P100 so there may be enough for some other uses, too.) |
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