sony do it again top class (Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717)

Member Name: cooltub53

Product:	Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717
Date:	19/08/03 (171 review reads)
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Advantages: Great lens, Good zoom, Night shooting

Disadvantages: Price, Small Memory card

I was looking for a good Digital Camera a few months back and was looking to spend around £400 hoping to get a good one but to my suprise you got a 3 million pixel one for that and i 5 million for around £700 do i keep looking and i saw this Sony DSC-F717 i know it sounds like a Jet fighter but is a camera.

so i was allowed to try it in the shop and i was still thinking to my self it is £700 and it is allot of many but i was thinking it will last a few years and it is a sony so it will have a very high build quality. So go home a look for reviews on it and find it has been reviewed on a professional camera website. Well, they said it was a good entry level camera for young professionals i am no David Bailey but i am a Graphic Design Degree student and want a camera that will give he high quality pictures and this camera does the job superbly.

you have all the standard camera modes multi burst shoots, portrait mode, sports, etc. but there is a really nice feature on it and it is nightvision. You can go out in the middle of the night and take photos without lighting. You can adjust the apature,shuter speed, etc. go into Manual focus mode so it is like your SLR but with no film it has a nice 2" screen. Really long battery life of around 2-3 hours on full charge.

you can also use it as a video camera if you are at home by plugging it into the tv and then record to video or you can use it for small clips up to 15 mins with sound and at high quality

It also has a good 10X Digital zoom it has a really high 2560/1920 resolution for very fine prints and this is all helped but the Carl Zeiss lens and the lowest resolution is 640/480 you can get a fair few pictures on the 32meg card supplied all the software is supplied by sony and unlike the music software for there mini disc player this works well

I have used this for ages and it is just great i have also used it to print out my pictures i have taked upto A3 size and they l
ook perfect on the Canon S9000

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