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Sony Cybershot DSC W220 12 1MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot Image Stabilization Black

This one’s got it all. The Cyber-shot DSC-W220/B combines point-and-shoot ease-of-use with advanced features in a sophisticated, compact body. Smile Shutter technology allows you to capture a smile the moment it happens, and the Carl Zeiss 4x optical zoom lens, optical SteadyShot image stabilization, and 12.1-megapixel resolution deliver crisp, clear images.A powerful 12.1-megapixel 1/2.3″ super HAD CCD image sensor helps you capture gorgeous images with superb contrast and clarity down to the finest detail. With 12.1-megapixel, you can create stunning, photo-quality prints up to A3+ size, or crop your images and still come away with high resolution shots.The professional-quality Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 4x optical zoom lens brings distant subjects closer for great outdoor, sports, and travel photos.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Sony Cybershot 12.1MP
After the camera shipped it was delivered in only a few days and in very good condition. It works just fine and is a great point and shoot camera. If you want a camera that is easy to operate and very good quality then this one should be considered.

3 Stars small internal memory
Question: is it just assumed that you buy a memory stick because the 15mg holds only three pictures? Our camera tells us the camera’s memory is full after just three pictures. Is this the case for everyone?

5 Stars Sony/Zeiss makes great combo.
I love the size, the lens and the on-screen and menu options. The photo display does not give the final photos justice, so you have to learn to adjust your expectations. For example, many of my distant mountain shots lacked definition and depth when I looked at the camera, but when I downloaded them into iPhoto, they were sharp, with great depth and detail. So I got a 4 GB card and I don’t delete anything until I see it on the computer screen later. You’ll love this camera.

1 Star Great little camera
Great camera for its size. Not quite the picture quality of a full size, but almost. Easy to use. Works really well in all light settings. I even dropped it once with no adverse affect. The zoom really works well. The memory stick is pricey compared to the SD type. Great product for the money. I highly recommend it.

4 Stars Great for the Price
I was looking for a pocket size point-and-shoot camera with image stabilization and good picture quality for less than $200. The Sony delivered exactly that for around $150.

I find myself taking lots of spontaneous photos because it is so convenient to carry and use.

When you adjust the mode wheel the setting are projected onto the LCD screen – easy to see and the icons are clearly labeled.

Good image quality allows considerable cropping of pictures without losing too much detail.

Is it perfect? No, but the compromises are ones I can live with:

No optical viewfinder

Somewhat limited zoom (4x)

On-off switch and shutter are a little small for me

Battery life is OK but not great (definitely recommend buying a spare)

Lacks manual control of aperature and shutter speed

All in all, this is a camera that begs to be taken along with you and used frequently. Have fun with it – I am!

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Canon PowerShot SX200IS 12 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3 0 inch LCD Black

Creating gorgeous images is more fun than ever with the sleek, impressively equipped PowerShot SX200 IS, elegantly designed in three new colors. Capture close-up, wide-angle shots with stunning 12x optical zoom. Experience the unprecedented image quality and point-and-shoot convenience of Smart AUTO, along with enhanced operability and an intuitive new menu. HD shooting at 1280 x 720 pixels with HDMI output lets you see all the beauty of your HD images and movies on your HDTV. HD movie shooting capability plus HDMI output for easy playback of video and photos on your HDTV Jpeg Compression – Still Image – Exif 2.2 (JPEG); Movie – MOV (Image – H.264; Audio – Linear PCM (Monaural)) Blink Detection alerts a shooter after a shot has been taken that a subject had closed eyes DIGIC 4 Image Processor has evolved Face Detection Technology that tracks the faces of moving subjects and lets the shooter enter the frame seamlessly with the Face Detection Self-timer ISO Sensitivity – Auto, ISO 80/100/200/400/800/1600 equivalent Continuous Shooting – Normal – approx. 0.8 fps; AF – approx. 0.5 fps; LV – approx. 0.6 fps (Large/Fine) Storage Media – SD/SDHC Memory Card, Multimedia Card, MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card Number of Recording Pixels – Still Image – up to 4000 x 3000 (Large); Movie – High Definition – up to 1280 x 720 (30 fps) Video Out – NTSC/PAL Power Source – Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery Shooting Capacity – Still Image – approx. 220 shots Playback Time – Approx. 360 min Dimensions (WxHxD) – 4.06 x 2.38 x 1.48 Weight – Approx. 7.76 oz

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars This thing is awesome…
I read all the reviews of this camera here on Amazon, as well as seeking out photography websites looking for recommendations for the best small point and shoot camera. Despite a few bad reviews here, everything else I saw was pretty positive, so I decided to go for it. I am SOOOOO glad I did.

From the moment it came out of the box, it was love at first site.

The display is large and clear and crisp.

The photos is takes are wonderful. I have seen low reviews talking about “noise” and “blurriness” and the only thing I can guess is that these people never took 5 minutes to figure out how to USE the camera. Set to the indoor setting, pictures taken inside are clear, crisp and brilliant. No noise. If you use the Kids&Pets mode, motion shots are almost always perfect and without blurriness. If you try and take every picture on “Auto” you are going to get a mixed bag of shots on ANY camera, that is why the camera comes with different settings.

I’ve also seen complaints about where the flash is and how hard the camera is to hold. It is true that when turning the camera on, the flash has bumped my finger a few times. But this is hardly a deal breaker. So it bumps you – it isn’t as though it is causing injury to the camera or to you, for goodness sake!!!! So it bumps you and you move your finger – big deal! I cannot fathom why anyone would care about this. As far as being hard to hold, maybe if you had the hands of a 7 ft NBA player or a 350lb lineman, it might be a bit small in your hands and hard to handle – but so would ANY small camera. But both my husband and myself have had no issues holding on to it. If you are worried for some reason, that is what the camera strap is there for. Personally, I love the fact that it EASILY slips into a pocket so I don’t walk around looking like a tourist, or have my hands full of camera while I want to be site-seeing.

The function section of this camera (SCN) is SUPER fun. You can take pictures where you turn everything in the photo black & white except selected color(s). This yields some AWESOME artsy shots with no effort (seriously, take pictures in candlight, where the color of the candle light is the only color – AMAZING!!!!). You can also swap colors to take wacky, fun photos. People will think you are a photography genius, and all you did was point and click. There is also a straight B&W mode, and sepia mode, like most cameras.

All in all, I CANNOT imagine having chosen any other camera.

1 Star Flawed camera.
Had the camera for about six months now. Very happy at this point that I bought an extended warranty.

Anyway, I’m not sure if its a problem with just my camera, but from day one I have had problems with the camera not focusing correctly. If anything is in motion at all the picture is blurry. Even staged portraits often come out blurry. I love the zoom ability of the camera, but couple it with the focus problems and it is darn near useless. When the pictures do come out, they come out very nice, but this camera does have problems with low light situations. Additionally, the battery life sucks. I shot around 100-120 pictures in around 1.5 hours and had to change the battery… sounds like a lot of pictures, but really its isn’t when half of them are out of focus.

Last weekend, the camera started having other problems. You look at the display on the back and the image on it shifts left and then right over and over again. I mean big jumps that could take half your subject out of the frame. Put an ear to the camera body/lens and you can hear it constantly adjusting when it is doing this. So, returning this piece-o-junk today… not going to get another one if I can help it.

4 Stars Canon SX200 IS
I have only had the camera for a few weeks and haven’t had much time to play around with it, but it’s quite simple to just pick up and start taking pictures. So far I have been very impressed with both the still picture and video options.

The one drawback that I have noticed is that when I am taking pictures, if I am holding the camera with one hand instead of both hands, I frequently hit the “play” button which displays the pictures already taken. There have been many times when I am about to take a great photo of our kids and then it switches to the play setting and I lose the opportunity to take it. The button is just in a bad place on the camera. That is the only drawback I have found so far. Other than that, I am very satisfied with the camera.

4 Stars Very Nice Camera
This is my 2nd Canon Digital Camera. Overall, i am very satisfied with this product. The pictures taken in sunny, outdoor settings are stunning.

720P HD videos shooting is easy and quaility is very good. Camera Software user interface is very intuitive, and has some advanced editing features as well.

Here is some short-comings I’ve noticed:.

(1) if you takes a lot of pictures with kids playing sports where your subject is in motion, this camera is not a good fit. The continuous-shooting mode is slow. (~1 shot/second range)

in addition, the LCD “blanks” out for a 1+ seconds after each shot so you have a hard time following your subject while in continuous-shooting mode. The “Servo AF” mode tends to over-compesate so i general turned that off.

(2) If you would like to take picutres using the camera’s 12X optical zoom, pls make sure you use a tripod since very small hand motion at that range can make the shot producing a lot of noise (”foggy” pictures).

(3) The “Auto” mode in indoor setting doesn’t always detect the current light condition. It’s best to put the camera in “Program”(P) mode and manually select light condition and sensitivity.

In general, this camera does not take good pictures in low-light conditions without the flash.

1 Star A shame
I don’t really like this product!

I find that is not comfortable the pop up flash.

The lens retraction is really TOO slow the same as the shooter (easy to lost THE moments).

The auto setting MANY times fails (really bad), you can’t trust on it to take a good picture… Is better to use manual settings.

The light capture is deficient the most of the times (it’s a shame, maybe the worst).

It was a big deception for me.

Canon PowerShot SX200IS 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-inch LCD (Red)

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Kingston 8 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card SD6 8GB

Kingston Technology’s Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) memory cards are fully compliant with the new Secure Digital Association 2.00 specification. They are a new performance class of SD memory cards designed to meet the storage demands of high-quality digital still and video cameras and other high-resolution image recording devices.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Excellent Product
This product is reliable, fast and convenient. The “Kingston” name is recognized as a quality product and performs as expected. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for quality and reliability at a reasonable price.

5 Stars Nice 8 GB Kingston Flash Memory Cards for Cameras
Why spend more on 8GB Kingston Flash Memory Cards when you can save more than 50% at Amazon Market Place? You take digital pictures, load your pictures from the memory cards into your computer, erase the images from your memory cards, use the fresh memory cards with your camera again. In fact, you recycled the memory cards which became merely a vehicle to load and dump the pictures. Whether an expensive new one or a cheap used one does not make a difference.

5 Stars Works Great, No Problems
I bought this for a Nikon L20 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera.

It works fine and I’ve had no issues.

I’m not sure what the high speed gets me since I am not using all that sophisticated of a camera, but it seems responsive enough.

The only downside I have discovered is that the SD card reader in my two-year-old Dell PC is not SDHC-compatible. Meaning it will not recognize a card of this capacity. It’s kindof a bummer, but I have a newer laptop that reads this 4GB card fine. This is not the card’s fault, but you may want to verify what your computer will handle before you move up to SDHC.

All in all, I am satisfied with Amazon service and pricing, as usual. I recommend the Kingston 4GB Class 6 card without hesitation.

5 Stars Quality, Compatible, Fast (for me)
As is always my experience with Kingston they make quality products at a middle price. You can find cheaper as well as more expensive cards with the same storage and speed. I feel they are more consistant than many of their peers.

As for compatibility I have never had an issue.

I have used this card in the following:

Nikon DSLR’s

Nikon point & shoots

Canon DSLR

Canon point & shoots

Panasonic Lumix Cameras

HP Computers

Sony Vaio Notebook

Dell Computers

IBM Computers

For me their cards have worked as they should in a wide array of products I own. I think the read/write class 6 are fast and at the moment class 6 is the industry standard.

If you purchase any SD card off Amazon, test it in ALL the items you may use. If any or all of them are NOT compatible you can return it. Amazon has a great return policy and you usually have 30 days. Test the SD card and if you have issues return it and try another or another brand. PNY, Sandisk, Transcend and many others that I have used also worked in all of the above products I listed.

2 Stars constantly get file errors
crap…constantly get file read erros.. ive lossed dozens of pictures or couldnt take a video because it would crap out and then freeze my camera… my cam works great with other memory card.

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