1,600 x 1,200 top resolution
Professional Carl Zeiss lens: 2.5x digital zoom with high-speed auto macro capability
2.1-million-pixel CCD
New 2-inch, hybrid, LCD color monitor with brightness control
Memory Stick memory storage
This review is from: Sony DSC-F55 Cyber-shot 2MP Digital CameraThis ultra-compact engineering marvel has some cool features: MPEG capability and swivel lens that allows unobtrusive candids or even self-portraits. The high price would be more palatable if the flash had a red-eye reducing feature. Planning to photograph the family indoors in settings with low ambient light? Fuhgeddaboutit. Red eye appears more often than not. Other (less expensive )cameras I've used, such as the Olympus D-340R and Kodak DC260, offer nearly equivalent image quality and produce no serious red-eye problem. The difference? The non-Sonys include a pulsing red eye-reduction flash feature. The CyberShot does not. I thought seriously about returning this item after the first hundred flash photos. Sony owed me more for this much money. On the 'Plus' side, compact size and swivel lens allow unobtrusive candids from waist level. No one suspects you're about to photograph them! That helps produce more interesting shots than otherwise. No viewfinder, but it's not missed. Again, people are used to getting a visual cue before being photographed when the photographer draws camera to face. With the CyberShot at waist height, the photographer has the advantage. And as long as the viewfinder design prevails, it'll be easy to catch your subjects unaware of the pending 'Snap.'
This review is from: Sony DSC-F55 Cyber-shot 2MP Digital CameraI got this one instead of some other digital camera because it could take short movies in MPEG format and the image quality was excellent. (There was another camera that did MPEG movies too.. I think it was the Hitachi InternetCam or something.) There are some aspects of the camera that I do find lacking. For example, I can not control the exposure time and it does not come with different flash modes or zoom functionality. The exposure time isn't really necessary since the camera takes care of it very well. In low light I have to hold the camera still or else the image may be blurred. I usually do not use the flash with this camera because it is overpowering and I can usually get away without it (and adjust the image later on the computer). I don't usually photographed people so I haven't had a problem with red-eye. The movie capability is great and helps capture a whole scenery or environment that can't be conveyed with a still image. Unfortunately the software that comes with the camera really sucks and I have yet to find software to work with the MPEG format. Transfering the files off of the memory stick is a drag with the serial adapter so I prefer to use the PCMCIA card on the laptop. Another feature I really love is the ability to take macro photos of things up-close and they come out incredibly well. I don't need to use the swivel feature of the lens but I find it's flexibility useful when I do. The battery lasts about an hour and is rechargeable or you can use the AC adapter. The 4 MB memory stick that comes with camera will hold about 8-10 images at the maximum quality/resolution or about 3-4 movies at 320x240. It seems this is the "first" in a new series by Sony so you may want to wait until you can buy the next model, the F505, when it comes out in your area. I have seem a couple of these for sale on Ebay.
This review is from: Sony DSC-F55 Cyber-shot 2MP Digital CameraI used the DSC-F55's predecessor unit for two years before losing it, sadly, on a Christmas vacation trip to Mexico a year ago... it was a terrific unit, easy to shoot with, good capacity (about 50+ in medium resolution mode); with all its shortcomings on resolution, etc...it had two features that I personally consider critical for easy, spontaneous day-to-day use, especially on travel: extremely lightweight/small (fits in pocket) and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. When I saw the DSC-F55 this spring, I jumped! While expensive, it very largely retained the best elements of the small form-factor/weight and rechargeability elements that I was looking for while presenting significantly enhanced resolution and(!) MPEG video, to boot. This latter capability has been a tremendous boon --- I've picked up a 16meg memory stick (have 2 4Meg sticks in addition); agree with another reviewer that compared with downloading to PC over serial port, nothing beats using memory stick in a PCMCIA port adapter directly in a notebook -- since trasferring images to the PC has to be the most time consuming and least attractive part of the digital photography value proposition, make no mistake: direct memory stick insertion into a PC is the way to go (especially if you're using a Sony PC -- I'm not, so the only drawback is having to pay a usurious amount on a ...
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