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 Fun to use but picture quality lacks July 31, 2010
Isa1
I bought this camera a little over a week ago and really wanted to love it. It is such a fun camera to use and the touch screen is a no brainer to figure out. The large screen is what really sold me, love to review the photos taken and show to others on the big screen. The anti-blurr feature really works! Took photos traveling in the car at 60 mph and they came out amazing! I wanted a small camera I could take anywhere and although not the smallest, it is small enough to put in a pocket or small purse. Like I said before, it is so fun to use, felt like I had a new toy, BUT, the drawback, is simply the quality of the photos. I bought the tiny little Canon SD1400is and took comparison photos with it and the Sony, side by side. The Sony, if it needs to use the flash, distorts the color, making people come out much redder than they are, sometimes their faces come out natural enough but their shoulders and chests would be very very red. Also, low light photos just do not come out well at all. The Canon outperformed the Sony by far when it comes to natural looking photos and good flash. If you just want a scenery camera and aren't that concerned about photo quality, then this camera is great. Although, if I wanted a camera primarily for scenery, I would get one with a lot better zoon than this one. I ended up returning the Sony and keeping the little Canon, which I am going to buy a waterproof housing for with the left over money from the return (along with an extra battery!). Sony needs to do something about the over saturation of color on this camera and it would be worth the money but as it is right now, I was very dissapointed. The Canon lacks the big screen and anti blurr but has fun features like black and white, sepia, or black and white with one color options. Sony should have put that on their $400 camera as well. I have always loved my Canons but was willing to give this fun little Sony a shot, guess I will stick with Canons for now, even though I had to sacrifice with a smaller screen.
 good function, high quality, good lens July 22, 2010
C. L. (SF,CA)
good function, high quality camera.
the wide angle lens is much better than other average point and shoot cameras.
low light shooting is superb, anti-blur, and hand-held twilight functions are remarkably impressive.
Really love it July 17, 2010
Beau
I based my decision on this cam from redban's review. Pictures are decent quality, the video quality was more than I expected. I intended to use this cam for pictures while having the ability to take video. However, the video quality is so good I've been using it to make videos instead. The stereo mic sounds fine, I think the mic is too insensitive. For example if I'm playing guitar with the volume cranked, in the room its loud as hell, but the videos with cam being 4 feet away it is not even close to the same level. My other cam doesn't have this "problem" if you want to call it that. The limited 4x zoom really sucks but you can't have everything. Also I didn't need the software from the CD to pull the pics and videos off the cam like other people have mentioned. Both in linux and windows xp I was able to directly pull the data.
Sony TSC-DX7 Camera July 17, 2010
Alfred W. Schreiber (Worden, IL United States)
We have only had this camera a short time but if our limited usage is any indication then we have made a good purchase. The camera has all the features we were looking for.
 Sacrifice Picture Quality for Size. July 14, 2010
Steggy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What I liked:
Video pros. The video was amazing, superb color, great sound, and blu-ray quality. PC playback descent but washed out, which may be something to do with my computer? AVCHD Playback was Awesome. After watching reviews of playback online I was shocked at the quality I actually received. The online video reviews of this camera compared to AVCHD playback was like comparing old analog TV's to 1080p blu-ray. There are some cons...
Video cons. Indoor video quality in not that great, the camera needs lots of light. And focus was slow if the camera moved too quickly. The camera is also in desperate need of better image stabilization.
Compact. I love the size and ease of carrying this camera around. Although the size sometimes caused issues with the way I held it. My finger was sometimes captured in the top left corner of video or pictures.
Screen quality. This camera has awesome playback. The screen is crisp and clear, at 921K pixels it ought to be.
What I did not like:
Pictures con. The quality of the pictures was somewhat disappointing. In full daylight I had grainy and blurry pictures, but the big issue was barrel distortion. I like to take pictures with my subjects off centered; with this camera you must keep people exactly in the center or you will experience major distortion. Low light or indoor pictures are also disappointing, this was one of the main reasons I bought this camera, for the supposed low light ability, I was very let down. The indoor pictures came out dark and grainy. You definitely need to use a flash. I am glad my son took pictures with my 5 year old Cannon to catalog the 4th of July holiday.
Pictures pro. I have heard people complain about the color, but that is the one area this camera succeeded. I think that is because I am colorblind. Most camera pictures look like "real life" to me, but this camera looked nothing like "real life". There were all sorts of colors I did not noticed while taking the pictures. I could see reds, purples, and greens like never before. That could be because the photos are saturated with color, I don't know, but I liked the color of the photos. Arches national park always looked brown and blah to me, but after uploading the images on my computer I was amazed. The sand and rocks were all shades of beautiful red. And fireworks only look blue, yellow, or white to me, but the pictures and video revealed red, green, orange, and purple ones!
Touch screen. The touch screen was fun the first day, but with daily application I grew to hate it. Often I would accidently touch my palm to the screen and a setting would change or it would start recording resulting in a missed picture opportunity. Other times I would touch the button and it would not register, frustrating!
Zoom. I thought a 4x zoom would be okay, boy was I wrong. If you do a lot of outdoor activities you will realize the zoom quickly becomes insufficient.
Battery. The battery did not live up to its expected life. Each day of our vacation I ran out of power. I took 622 pictures and 32 minutes of video over seven days. I needed to charge the battery daily as it was almost dead by the end of the day.
Conclusion. In the end I returned the camera. I was not willing to sacrifice picture quality for compact size. To me this camera should be priced around $150 for its picture quality. I assume most of the price is built into its video capability, fancy touch screen, and size, which to me in not worth the added cost. I continue to search for a camera that takes great pictures in a compact body. The new Sony NEX5 is coming, although not as compact it may be an option...
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