Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S500

This camera does take great pictures in the daytime, but it takes a little long to actually take the picture making it more difficult to get the shot you want and your hand has to be completely still or the picture will be blurry. It takes awful pictures at night. The pictures are so dark you really can't see whatever it was you were taking a picture of and if you do happen to get a picture that has enough light to see, it is usually EXTREMELY blurry. I would not purchase this camera if I were given the chance to start my camera search over again. I wish that I had spent a little more and purchased a Canon camera. I had a canon digital camera ...  Read the complete review

An entry level Sony digital camera. All the quality and strategy you would expect from a Sony, but with some unexpected flaws. People care about resolution nowadays, expressed in MegaPixels, so producers offer more megapixels on any camera they market, even the most basic. This is the case of DSC-S500, 6.2 megapixels for nothing. In fact, they give you a reasonable amount of pixels but they take away everything else: the lens (which is not a Zeiss Tessar), the viewfinder (abolished), the speaker, the plugs cover (left naked to threats from sand and dust) and even the hi-speed USB connection! But if you really care for the LCD screen, here's one of the ...  Read the complete review