Sony DSCP150 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver)

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Sony DSCP150 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver)

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Sony DSCP150 7.21 MP

This is a great camera on land and while scuba diving. Although they don't make the water housing any longer you can still purchase it online through a few different vendors. I have really enjoyed the small size which makes it more likely to just throw it in your pocket and take a picture when ever the need arises. As far as a dive camera it's been awesome. I would recommend this camera to anyone looking for a good, fast and totally functional camera. It also displays the current battery life so you know how many minutes you have left until your going to lose your power.

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Sony DSCP150 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver) - Sony

Defect negates my love of this camera!

I recently purchased this camera at Sears. It was the demo model, so it had some scratch marks on the bottom where it had been attached to the "holding post". The serial number had also been removed. I knew that I was taking my chances, but I bought the camera, found the accessories on line, and started taking pictures. I was really pleased with the sharpness of detail, and experienced relatively few blurry pictures - usually of our pets. The colors were clear and realistic, the pictures were just good overall. It was only when I examined the photos that I discovered that many of them had a single brown blurry blob that certainly detracted from some great photos. I tried cleaning the lens, but it was no use. I also tried gently tapping on the top of the camera, but no luck. I discovered that the darkness and size of the blob changes with zooming in or out. When I zoom in, it becomes smaller but darker. I am wondering if it is some dust between the lens layers. I now have less than a week in which to decide what to do - do I return the camera - a great deal, but sadly one with a frustrating defect- or do I work around the blob? I have put my Olympus C-4000 aside because it is much larger and slower (though still functions perfectly). I'll check with Sony and a local camera repair place. If you do buy this camera (and maybe this goes for other digital cameras as well), make sure that you examine your photos carefully so that you don't end up with flaws on what could be gorgeous photos.

Sony - Sony DSCP150 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Silver)

Great consumer-level point-and-shoot digital camera

If you are advanced consumer, or thinking about prosumer, that is either finally switching from analog to digital or just want a decent camera to take on family vacations or school projects, this is a great camera. It is small, lightweight, and does just about anything you could possibly need it to do. It won't take pictures of hummingbirds feeding across a forest bed, but it will take a decent photo of the grand canyon. The quality of the 3x optical zoom is really good, but the picture is sacrificed slightly as you try to artifically enhance it with the digital zoom. The battery life is good enough to take on extended trips from your hotel or on a hike without having to carry around a charger or spare batteries. If you plan on taking lots of high quality large photos, you will need to get a larger memory stick (64 MB will work, 128 MB even better), but the memory stick it comes with will be enough to photograph your child's birthday party as long as you download the photos onto your computer afterwards. At 7 MegaPixels, this camera will pick up the fuzz on a bee head as its sitting in a flower. 7 MP is enough to make clear 15x20 prints. All around, while Sony's camera lenses may not compare with Canon or Olympus, Sony makes up for it with their superior knowledge of how to make a great consumer digital device and turn it into a decent digital camera. It is a great value for the price.

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