Editorial Product Review:Item Description:Take stunning shots in a variety of conditions. The Sony DSC-W150 Cyber-shot(R) 8.1-Megapixel Digital Camera features an Intelligent Scene mode, which automatically selects the right settings for your environment. Smile Shutter technology lets you instantly capture smiles the moment they happen. A Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens and Sony's Double Anti-Blur solution provide crisp, clear images. Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, a 9-point auto-focus measures the focus at 9 precision points instead of 5 for a greater creative freedom to compose your image. A large, bright 2.7' Clear Photo LCD display includes an anti-reflective coating that provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight. Face Detection technology automatically controls focus, exposure, color, and flash to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eliminate harsh facial glare, so your photos bring out every expression on every face in every shot. A built-in optical viewfinder lets you compose your photos in traditional rangefinder camera style and helps save battery power by turning off your LCD display. Shutter Speed - Auto (1/4 - 1/1,600) / Program Auto (1 - 1/1,600) ISO - Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, and 3200 Flash Modes - Auto, Flash On, Slow Syncro, and Flash Off Scene Modes - Auto, Easy Shooting, Program Auto, Movie, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, and Underwater Movie Modes - MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640x480 at 30fps), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640x480 at 16fps), 320 (QVGA, 320 x 240, Approx.8.3fps) Operating System - Microsoft 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional, Macintosh OS 9.1, 9.2, and OS X (10.0-10.4)
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Poor picture quality
Purchased this from Amazon almost a month ago. I used it and compared it to a Nikon 5200 and Canon A610, both of which were 5 megapixel. What is shocking is the low quality of the pictures, which on close examination turn out to contain a high amount of digital noise and other signs of poor image processing. The Nikon has noisy images, but the Sony is noticeably worse than even that. The Canon is phenomenal in that area, with no digital noise and excellent shading in dark areas. The poor picture quality persisted even after setting the Sony's resolution to 5 megapixels (along with other parameters) to match the other cameras.
Even though the Sony has 8.1 megapixels, it doesn't show or matters. I can not imagine cropping and blowing up a section for printing (which might at times be the whole purpose of taking a high resolution image to begin with). The issue here seems to be another case of a camera maker cramming too many megapixels into a too-small sensor, resulting in poor images.
The camera looks very nice, is solidly built with a metal body, and is easy to use. It's actually one of the best looking cameras I've seen. But the picture quality is a huge negative. I'm not sure if the firmware is upgradable, maybe alleviating some of its problems, but even so, I've never found Sony to be too responsive in releasing upgrades in response to customer complaints.
I tried to like the camera, but unfortunately it's going back to Amazon.
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Sony Cybershot
Excellent product. Takes great pictures no matter what lighting or setting. Perfect for the beginning photographer or the expert!
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Easy to use, sleek and functional
I really like this camera, as I said, it's sleek and functional.
Ease to use as well.. I am very satisfied with this camera for the price and what I got. And it has the perfect size for what I need.
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Don't miss those moments
I bought this camera as a gift for my niece, who was upset that she was missing good photos of her 18 month old son, because her other camera hesitated before capturing the photo. She told me that the Cybershot snaps the photo immediately, and she doesn't miss anything cute that he does! And she loves the red color.