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Company : Sony List Price : $199.99 Amazon Price : $195.00 Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• 7.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 15 x 20-inch prints
• Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom lens; 2.5-inch LCD display
• High Sensitivity Mode (ISO 3200) allows for shooting even in low-light conditions
• In-camera red-eye reduction and retouching functions
• HD output; HD slide show with music feature

Product Description

Recreate the moment with the incredibly lifelike pictures you’ll take with the DSC-W80 7.2 Megapixel Cyber-shot(R) digital camera. Your friends will be impressed with its combination of high fashion and advanced performance. With features like Face Detection to bring out the most natural tones in faces and HD output for presentation, sharing pictures becomes an experience to remember. The convenient in-camera retouching and red-eye reduction expands your creativity while the double anti-blur solution allows low-light shooting without flash. And the Carl Zeiss 3X optical zoom lens lets you view the action very closely through the large 2.52 LCD screen. HD Output - view DSC-W80 still photos in spectacular high definition clarity and detail on your HDTV screen. HD Slide Show with Music - photos come alive on HDTV screens, accompanied by your choice of visual effects and any of four preset musical selections stored in memory or your favorite MP3 tunes downloaded from PC to your camera for use as background music. 9-Point Auto Focus - can measure auto-focus precision at 9 points on your screen. D-Range Optimization - preserves image data in bright highlights and shadows. In-Camera Retouching - lets you add creative effects to photos after you shoot ( e.g. - soft edge filter, partial color filter and fish-eye filter.) In-Camera Red-Eye Reduction Large 2.5 LCD Screen with optical viewfinder Simple Setup Controls 31 MB Internal Memory Built-in slot accepts optional Memory Stick(R) Duo or Memory Stick(R) PRO Duo media. 14X Smart Zoom® Feature Sony Smart Zoom - intelligently crops into the central portion of interest in your photo. MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode - Captures VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second)

Customer reviews

The perfect camera!
I love everything about this camera. It’s the right size, battery has a long life, menus are easy to navigate, video mode yields pretty decent pictures and sound (for a still camera). Takes beautiful still photos. Sleek brushed metal casing makes for strong and sturdy camera. Photo management software is easy to use too. Perfect for the “point-and-shoot” amateur. And it’ll fit in your front pocket too!

Sony DSCw80
Good Sony product. Handy small size, good photos. It is a fine compact digital camera that will fit in your front pocket.

BEST I`ve ever had, so far
I’ve only had 3 digital cameras including my K800i Phone and this camera is amazing. Take great photos in low light condition and very easy to use.

Great camera, great pictures
Highly recommended. Looks okay, but the pictures are fantastic thanks to a great lens. We love this camera.

“Underwhelmed” with this camera
We bought the SONY DSCW80 Camera prior to a family trip to Disneyworld this Fall. We wanted a smaller camera with the verstility to capture all of the excitement of such a trip. We left plenty of time to develop a feel for the new features and options that this model had over our older Olympus model. We mostly point and shoot, but hoped to have the versatility to customize shots when we had the time and calling to do so. Although we’re not a shutterbugs, my wife and I are not Techno-dunces either, (we are engineers with plenty of camera, microscope, and endoscopic experience). In part, we based our decision to buy this camera upon the favorable recomendations of a leading consumer reporting magazine.

I must agree with several other reviewers that this camera produces pictures that lack clarity and focus. It works best outdoors when shooting with a lot of natural light. Even then, action shots are always blurred - even when employing the faster shutter speeds available via selectable pre-programmed exposure modes. When the light begins to dim - pictures get progressively more grainy, blurred, and frustrating.

I was convinced that operator error was the main cause of our problems, but I have now passed the camera around at enough soccer games and basketball games to ensure this is not the case. I have read and re-read the users manual and found that nothing seems to help.

I hate to sound overly critical of SONY, but I would also add that the software that came with the camera was quite cumbersome. It took a long time to load and causes operating system errors with my IBM Laptop.

In simple summary, I would not recommend this camera to anyone. You can only imagine the frustration of having 400 images from a Disney vacation of which only 100 are worth printing. Many of the candid shots that would have been most memorable - on rides, at parades, during shows - have the worts clarity.

This camera was not the right choice. I will probably replace it with a similarly featured Olympus or Cannon Model.

JL