Sony Cybershot DSC-S700 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Sony Cybershot DSC-S700 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: Love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I absolutely love this camera. The pictures are of really good quality and its super easy to download them to my computer.Customer Review: Camera review
Summary: 4 Stars
Great little camera, ready to go out of the box, SONY quality, basically point and shoot.Customer Review: Sony Cybershot S700 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Summary: 4 Stars
I got what I want!! I am satisfied with the qaulity of service and product qualityCustomer Review: Easy to use, but beware
Summary: 3 Stars
Sony Cybershot S700 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical ZoomOK, here's my impressions of this camera. I have never owned a digital camera before. I just wanted a simple point and shoot to take pics for Ebay. I do not care for bells and whistles. I just want to do what a point and shoot is for. I want to take it out of the box and take pics. There are many things to like about this camera. I dropped it twice on a wooden floor from a height of 3 feet and no damage, so it's built tough. The buttons are not very intuitive, but the manual is easy to read and understand. It is easy to load and use the included editing software. I especially like that when you plug the usb cable into the camera, the editing software automatically pops up and asks you if you want to download. Very handy! Someone mentioned it's easy to accidently delete pics. No it's not. You have to first hit the disp button, then the delete button, then tab up to highlight delete, then hit enter. It would be very hard to accidently delete a shot. There are several cons with this camera. One, the usb protector cover is very flimsy rubber, and it's only a matter of time before it breaks. There is little in camera editing available. You can rotate, resize, or reduce red-eye, but that's about it. The included software lets you do this as well, but only has a few more editing tricks. You can adjust brightness, sharpness, tone, or crop. There is an automatic feature which is somewhat usefull. If you're serious about your pics looking their best, you will need a professional software program. Here are my biggest dislikes, which is why I give it 3 stars. A camera should take good pics right? Well, this does but only if you have surgeons hands. There is no image stabilizer in this camera. My hand shakes slightly, and most of my pics have been blurry because of this. I thought a tripod would help, but the tripod dock is on the left. This makes it easy to tip the camera over when using this, which is how mine got dropped twice. It should be in the center. The shutter button needs to be pressed half-way to focus, and then fully to take the pic. This requires too much pressure, which again makes a steady shot difficult when your finger moves the camera. The low iso setting is useless for close-ups. Pics were dark and grainy. It would only be good for long shots where the flash won't work. I will be trading this camera for one with an image stabilzer. Since even most entry-level cameras have that these days, I'd say the DSC700 is seriously outdated. If you have steady hands, and can get this really cheap like I did, it's a good entry-level camera. But unless you have surgeons hands, I'd look elsewhere.Customer Review: OK-but could be better-Be prepared for blurry pictures here and there!
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this camera 3 weeks ago. Overall, I rate it as just ok. Here are the pros:
-easey to use
-takes AA batteries, which you can find anywhere as opposed to having to charge the camera ( which I most likely will forget to do!)
-slim classy look, can fit in a pocket
-nice sized LCD panel
-Movies from the camera came out very nice :), although you have to hook camera to tv or download movie to computer to view. Cannot view on the camera itself ( at least I couldn't)
Now the cons:
-Picture quality is inconsistent. When pictures are printed, you can see shadows around objects in the pictures, strange colors ( green) and some noise
-File sizes are HUGE , depending on setting. Right now, I am using 3.1, the pictures are over 1 MB each. Have not experimented with the other settings yet.
-NO IMAGE STABILIZATION-THIS IS A BAD THING! I am occassionally frustrated because some of the pictures ocme out blurry, or I have to take pictures over and over. The "vibration icon" comes on to the screen many times. My advice would be to get a larger memory stick and be prepared to take at least 4-5 pictures in a row so you can get at least one good shot hopefully --Oh, and a VERY patient subject to be photographed will definitely help.
I researched for quite a while before purchasing this, and the price was definetly good for the ease of use. But if I could, I would take it back and buy something else that had image stabilization, cause this is the main thing I don't like about the camers. Loved being able to use the AA batteries. Battery life seems to be ok, no complaints here-but I keep spare ones in the case.
ONE MORE IMPORTANT THING: If you take the memory card out and take it to the drugstore to one of those self-print photo kiosks, PLEASE NOTE that the pro duo media will not fit the the slot that says " memory stick" because it is too small ( especially those at Walgreens and Walmart) It may fit in a Kodak Kiosk, cause they have a small slot. make sure that you have a SONY ADAPTER when you go to print your pictures, or it will be a pain. I made the mistake of not doing this, and stuck my card into the memory slot only to find that I had the most difficult time at getting it out of there, and the store was closing at the time. I finally fished it out with a cardboard. Save yourself the frustration and buy an adapter ( you can buy them separate right here on Amazon or it comes free with the Sony brand only of memory sticks).