Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S50

I've owned the Cybershot DSC-S50 for about 8 months now, and I've managed to take over 250 pictures with some great results. As common with all digital cameras today they all suffer from the Marketing mens' hype and this camera is no exception. Forget any references to how many special effects or digital effects a camera has, its the ability to take sharp, balanced colour photographs that count. Luckily, the DSC-S50 is exceptionally good at high resolution (1600x1200) with only 2.1 mega pixels to play with. More important is the ability to manually adjust the white balance and exposure (but you can also set it to auto). Image sizes available ...

The DSC-P50 is a 2MP (1600X1200) digital camera capaable of recording still images and video onto sony memory sticks. STILL IMAGES: These can be takes at 640X480, 1024X768, 1600X1200 using either TIFF or JPEG at two different quality settings. Pictures taken at 1600X1200 as a tiff will take up ~5MB and will give a beatiful A4 printout, 1600X1200 as a JPEG will use 700KB and will give a photographic quality A5 printout. Lower resolutions can be used if the images are for e-mail or webpages. MOVING VIDEO: The camera can capture video as an MPEG Movie at 320X240 or 160X112 or as an animated GIF at 160X112 or 80X56, Neither can record ...

This has got to be one of the best cameras in its price range, if not the best, and it beats a lot of digital cameras, costing a lot more money, if anything there are too many bits to play with in the menu, it's a great camera for anyone starting out, and makes a good first step into the more advanced stuff, The only problems I have with it, is because of the small LCD screen, it can be a bit hard to read the menus and stuff, but thats not a fault as such it's my bad eyesight, the main problem so far is the high power consumption, I use the standard alkaline rechargable batteries that come with it, and they last no time at all, I now carry two spare sets and ...