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#1 Photo Products - Sony Cybershot DSCT300 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot (Silver)
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Sony
Color: Silver
Connectivity: AV
Digital Zoom: 2
Display Size: 3.5
EAN: 0027242733695
Feature: 10.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
Floppy Disk Drive Description: None
Has Red Eye Reduction: 1
Included Software: Yes
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Maximum Focal Length: 29
Maximum Resolution: 10.2
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Model: DSCT300
Monitor Size: 350
Number Of Items: 1
Optical Zoom: 5
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2008-04-14
Studio: Sony
System Memory Size: 15
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Features
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10.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints
Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens; Smart Zoom feature
3.5-inch widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus display; Face Detection
Intelligent Scene Recognition; HDTV compatibility
15 MB internal memory; capture images to Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo media
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Good Product
Comment: Excelent Performance in pictures, and in the night pictures better than a lot of cameras. very happy with the camera.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: I really like this camera. the pictures are sharp and it easy to operate. I like the fact that I can write the names or places on the picture so that I can remember later who or what. I recommend it. The size is great and it fits the case that I also purchased, with ease.
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Summary: excellent camera
Comment: extremely light, feels good in hands while taking pictures, the screen is unbelievable, overall very pleased with the purchase of this item and the way amazon processed my order
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Summary: Love the camera, but serious problems ....
Comment: I received this camera in the mail last week and I love it! It's easy to use, does everything I want, and the picture quality is great.
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Well, as much as I hate to do this, I have to revise my review. After using this camera for about two weeks, the touch screen has stopped functioning. Most of the time, the screen is completely unresponsive. Occasionally, I can touch it and it will respond but it's as if I touched a different part of the screen. For example, I touch the MENU area on the bottom left of the screen and the Flash controls that are on the right side will respond. I am not able to open the MENU at all so I can't change any settings or even scroll through the pictures I have taken.
Besides all that, the camera still takes very good pictures. Just wish the touch screen would work because I'd hate to be without a camera.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressive, innovative, poor image quality
Comment: I bought one of these while on vacation, and thus I did not have time to perform my usual research. After 3 weeks, 1000 pictures, and an email exchange with Sony tech support, I returned it. I was glad to pay the $60 restocking fee.
The camera was not defective. The images of this 10 Megapixel camera simply have the detail of a 5 Megapixel camera because the camera is designed to automatically perform digital contrast and color enhancement. This is my conclusion after owning one, after reading every review I could find on the internet, and after owning two of the predecessors to this camera including the very first model - the DSC-T1.
This detail destroying "enhancement" makes the photos look prettier - until you enlarge them.
I was really looking forward to zooming in on one of my photos of ancient Native American rock art that I could not have captured with less than 5X zoom and 10 Megapixels. When I got home and enlarged the image to full size, I looked at the adequately enlarged space where the thin and faint lines of the rock drawings should have been.
It wasn't there.
Thin and faint lines are EXACTLY the kind of detail that contrast and color enhancement eliminate.
Pros: Image quality is the only serious defect of this camera, and of course, image quality is not necessarily the single most important feature of a camera. If you value a well-constructed ultra-compact ultra-cool camera with good low light capability and about 5 Megapixel resolution that has already been digitally enhance for beauty, then you would love this camera. Another truly valuable feature of this camera, is that it can zoom while recording video. I know of no other compact digital camera that can do this - including previous Sony models. Downloading photos and video to a computer is lightning fast, although I was using the more expensive high-speed version of Sony's proprietary memory stick that only works with Sony products.
Cons: This is a very expensive 5 megapixel camera. It has no USB port - you must use the bulky proprietary cable provided with it. You cannot charge it using the cable - you must remove the battery and place it in the charger unless you buy the cradle that is not included. The touch screen is the only way to switch between photo and video modes - which is as clunky as it sounds. It is easy to accidentally touch a button on the screen. If you make the screen bright enough to be usable on a sunny day, then the battery life seems like about 30-40 minutes. Like most cameras, the video format is not compatible with the iPod Touch. It uses Sony's proprietary memory stick that only works with Sony products.
Later this month you can choose from the new DSC-T500 or DSC-T700. The DSC T700 is actually slightly less capable (only 4X zoom) but is slimmer. The DSC-T500 is impressive because it adds stereo sound recording and 720p high definition video. It also moves the photo/video switch back to an actual physical switch.
I hope Sony improved the image quality on these new models, but their web site implies no such improvement. In fact I pointed out to Sony Tech support that their press release boasted that T700 images could be enlarged to 8X10, which is a tacit admission of poor image quality because a true 10 Megapixel camera should be capable of twice that. Sony subsequently changed their story to claim their images could be enlarged to A3 size - but did they improve these two cameras at the last minute - or did they simply change their marketing literature?
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Sony DSC-T300 offers excellent performance and an elegant, sophisticated design. It includes Face Detection technology to optimize focus, exposure and color for up to eight faces. The compact body houses 10.1-Megapixel resolution and a beautiful, wide 3.5" touch-screen LCD for easy operation. A Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens give you the power to get even closer to the action, a real benefit for distant landscape views and dramatic portraits. A huge 3.5" widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus 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. With high sensitivity of ISO 3200, you can shoot effectively in low light without flash to preserve the mood, while the Sony Clear RAW Noise Reduction system helps suppress the color noise that can degrade low-light shots. PhotoTV HD compatibility allows the camera to be connected to a PhotoTV HD-capable Sony BRAVIA HDTV via the optional HD output adaptor, for highly detailed, high-definition color images displayed in unprecedented realism and full HD quality in 16:9 High-Resolution Mode. 1/2.3 Super HAD(TM) CCD Shutter Speed - Auto (1/4 - 1/1,000) / Program Auto (1 - 1/1,000) Aperture Range - Auto (F3.5-F10) / Program Auto (F3.5-F10) Movie Modes - MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640x480 at 30fps), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640x480 at 16.6fps), Presentation Mode (320 x 240 at 8.3fps) Self-Timer - 10 seconds and 2 seconds Scene Modes - Beach, Fireworks, High Speed Shutter, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, and Smile Shutter Flash Modes - Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, and Slow Synch Operating System - Microsoft 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional, and Vista, Macintosh OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.4)
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