Sony CyberShot W55B - Experience Report (Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55)

Member Name: Sierra81

Product:	Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55
Date:	19/10/08 (87 review reads)
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Advantages: High resolution,Comes equipped with proprietary Li-Ion battery and charger,Stylish,Small form factor

Disadvantages: Instable, Long Shutter lag, Complicated menus, Too high price, Expensive accessories

You are probably searching for a quality digital camera for pictures at an affordable price and stumbled upon Sony CyberShot DSC W55. From my experience I have to advise you not buy this camera. I managed to sell it recently and get another model from a different brand.
The problems I've encountered with the Sony:
1. The user interface is complicated to use, consisting of multiple menus for each mode you are in. If you are in a specific mode and need a feature to reduce the brightness because you just can't distinguish anything, you can't access that feature, as it is located in a different menu, in another mode.
You can't learn about the interface from the manual because things are not logic.
2. Picture quality. Yes, you can capture great pictures but only accidentally or when you are outside in the natural light. Otherwise, you can struggle as much as you like, your pictures will be blurry if the subject moves just for a second. You need to keep the camera still for several seconds and take pictures with stones if you want clear images.
3. Video quality - bad, meaning that you'll see subtle lines in the images, and no video clip will be clear. Yeah, you can try shooting in the woods, so you won't distinguish those lines from leafs.
4. Price is too high for what it knows to do.

Summary: The price is too high for its capabilities, so in other words it is not worth buying.

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