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I've had the Sony DSC-S50 for a few weeks now and I love it. It's my first digital
camera, though I've played around with some other d-cameras before. It's full
featured for a really good price. The photos are very clean and good quality. even
when using the "User is dumb as a brick so do everything automatically" mode. I
get good pictures under most lighting conditions in the automatic mode. And there
are lots of controls for the folks who like setting things manually.
I noticed that several people mentioned a hard to view LCD screen. I had this
same problem also, till I discovered that there also is an LCD brightness control on
the setup menu. Mine was set REALLY low so I brought it up to a bit under the
half way mark and now it is nice and bright.
A couple of other notes: You can force the camera to pre-focus/balance the
picture by partially depressing the shutter. Once the green dot stops flashing
the shutter will respond very quickly after being tripped. Normally I don't need
to do this, but when trying to take a picture of my 19 month old daughter I
might have only 1/4 second to see the perfect shot, and take it.
When in MPEG mode set to the higher resolution, for much better quality movies.
I love the fact that this camera allows sound with the MPEGs. We almost bought
a cheaper Sony that didn't have sound. That would have been a mistake!
I picked up a demo model with a 32MB memory stick, plus a spare battery for
$540 out the door (no sales tax in Oregon). But I'm getting a $50 rebate from
Sony and a $50 rebate from the store so my effective cost is $440! But I'll probably
put the rebate towards another memory stick, not that I've managed to even
begin to fill up the first one. I'd like to try some hi-res shots and they suck up
more memory.
Problems:
Still don't like the Sony menu system that's on all their cameras. It's functional, but
not as clean as it could be.
Wish it had an optical viewfinder, but I have taken shots with the LCD flipped backwards
in the off position and even they came out fine, though not framed as well as they
could have been.
camera, though I've played around with some other d-cameras before. It's full
featured for a really good price. The photos are very clean and good quality. even
when using the "User is dumb as a brick so do everything automatically" mode. I
get good pictures under most lighting conditions in the automatic mode. And there
are lots of controls for the folks who like setting things manually.
I noticed that several people mentioned a hard to view LCD screen. I had this
same problem also, till I discovered that there also is an LCD brightness control on
the setup menu. Mine was set REALLY low so I brought it up to a bit under the
half way mark and now it is nice and bright.
A couple of other notes: You can force the camera to pre-focus/balance the
picture by partially depressing the shutter. Once the green dot stops flashing
the shutter will respond very quickly after being tripped. Normally I don't need
to do this, but when trying to take a picture of my 19 month old daughter I
might have only 1/4 second to see the perfect shot, and take it.
When in MPEG mode set to the higher resolution, for much better quality movies.
I love the fact that this camera allows sound with the MPEGs. We almost bought
a cheaper Sony that didn't have sound. That would have been a mistake!
I picked up a demo model with a 32MB memory stick, plus a spare battery for
$540 out the door (no sales tax in Oregon). But I'm getting a $50 rebate from
Sony and a $50 rebate from the store so my effective cost is $440! But I'll probably
put the rebate towards another memory stick, not that I've managed to even
begin to fill up the first one. I'd like to try some hi-res shots and they suck up
more memory.
Problems:
Still don't like the Sony menu system that's on all their cameras. It's functional, but
not as clean as it could be.
Wish it had an optical viewfinder, but I have taken shots with the LCD flipped backwards
in the off position and even they came out fine, though not framed as well as they
could have been.