| Sony Cybershot DSCT300/R 10.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot (Red) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 31 reviews)
Sales Rank: 519
Category: Photography
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
Brand: Sony
Label: Sony
Color: Red
Media: Electronics
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 1
System Memory: 15
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 350
Included Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 5
Digital Zoom: 2
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 3.5
Maximum Focal Length: 29
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Maximum Resolution: 10100000
Has Red Eye Reduction: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5 x 1 x 3.5
MPN: DSCT300/R
Model: DSCT300/R
UPC: 027242726772
EAN: 0027242726772
ASIN: B0011E4N6Q
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 10.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints | | • | Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens; Smart Zoom feature | | • | 3.5-inch widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus display; Face Detection | | • | Intelligent Scene Recognition; HDTV compatibility | | • | 15 MB internal memory; capture images to Memory Stick Duo/Pro Duo media |
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Product Description
The Sony DSC-T300 offers excellent performance and an elegant, sophisticated design. It includes Face Detection technology to optimize focus, exposure and color for up to eight faces. The compact body houses 10.1-Megapixel resolution and a beautiful, wide 3.5" touch-screen LCD for easy operation. A Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens give you the power to get even closer to the action, a real benefit for distant landscape views and dramatic portraits. A huge 3.5" widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus LCD display includes an anti-reflective coating that provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight. With high sensitivity of ISO 3200, you can shoot effectively in low light without flash to preserve the mood, while the Sony Clear RAW Noise Reduction system helps suppress the color noise that can degrade low-light shots. PhotoTV HD compatibility allows the camera to be connected to a PhotoTV HD-capable Sony BRAVIA HDTV via the optional HD output adaptor, for highly detailed, high-definition color images displayed in unprecedented realism and full HD quality in 16:9 High-Resolution Mode. 1/2.3 Super HAD(TM) CCD Shutter Speed - Auto (1/4 - 1/1,000) / Program Auto (1 - 1/1,000) Aperture Range - Auto (F3.5-F10) / Program Auto (F3.5-F10) Movie Modes - MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640x480 at 30fps), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640x480 at 16.6fps), Presentation Mode (320 x 240 at 8.3fps) Self-Timer - 10 seconds and 2 seconds Scene Modes - Beach, Fireworks, High Speed Shutter, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, and Smile Shutter Flash Modes - Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, and Slow Synch Operating System - Microsoft 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional, and Vista, Macintosh OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.4)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 Impressive, innovative, poor image quality September 6, 2008
I bought one of these while on vacation, and thus I did not have time to perform my usual research. After 3 weeks, 1000 pictures, and an email exchange with Sony tech support, I returned it. I was glad to pay the $60 restocking fee.
The camera was not defective. The images of this 10 Megapixel camera simply have the detail of a 5 Megapixel camera because the camera is designed to automatically perform digital contrast and color enhancement. This is my conclusion after owning one, after reading every review I could find on the internet, and after owning two of the predecessors to this camera including the very first model - the DSC-T1.
This detail destroying "enhancement" makes the photos look prettier - until you enlarge them.
I was really looking forward to zooming in on one of my photos of ancient Native American rock art that I could not have captured with less than 5X zoom and 10 Megapixels. When I got home and enlarged the image to full size, I looked at the adequately enlarged space where the thin and faint lines of the rock drawings should have been.
It wasn't there.
Thin and faint lines are EXACTLY the kind of detail that contrast and color enhancement eliminate.
Pros: Image quality is the only serious defect of this camera, and of course, image quality is not necessarily the single most important feature of a camera. If you value a well-constructed ultra-compact ultra-cool camera with good low light capability and about 5 Megapixel resolution that has already been digitally enhance for beauty, then you would love this camera. Another truly valuable feature of this camera, is that it can zoom while recording video. I know of no other compact digital camera that can do this - including previous Sony models. Downloading photos and video to a computer is lightning fast, although I was using the more expensive high-speed version of Sony's proprietary memory stick that only works with Sony products.
Cons: This is a very expensive 5 megapixel camera. It has no USB port - you must use the bulky proprietary cable provided with it. You cannot charge it using the cable - you must remove the battery and place it in the charger unless you buy the cradle that is not included. The touch screen is the only way to switch between photo and video modes - which is as clunky as it sounds. It is easy to accidentally touch a button on the screen. If you make the screen bright enough to be usable on a sunny day, then the battery life seems like about 30-40 minutes. Like most cameras, the video format is not compatible with the iPod Touch. It uses Sony's proprietary memory stick that only works with Sony products.
Later this month you can choose from the new DSC-T500 or DSC-T700. The DSC T700 is actually slightly less capable (only 4X zoom) but is slimmer. The DSC-T500 is impressive because it adds stereo sound recording and 720p high definition video. It also moves the photo/video switch back to an actual physical switch.
I hope Sony improved the image quality on these new models, but their web site implies no such improvement. In fact I pointed out to Sony Tech support that their press release boasted that T700 images could be enlarged to 8X10, which is a tacit admission of poor image quality because a true 10 Megapixel camera should be capable of twice that. Sony subsequently changed their story to claim their images could be enlarged to A3 size - but did they improve these two cameras at the last minute - or did they simply change their marketing literature?
Great overall performance September 3, 2008
Excellent photo quality in good lighting. Need flash in low lighting to get better results. The camera has some very nice and useful in-camera photo editing features. I'm very satisfied with the overall performance of this camera.
 Excellent August 31, 2008
this is an excellent product. the lense and zoom have to be tried to be believed and the touch screen is phenonmenal. if you love photography and don't want a bulky camera, this is the equipment for you.
Great camera August 31, 2008
Takes great photos and I love the touch screen interface. Faster shooting then with some cameras and excellent quality with more features than I know what to do with. Love the smile shutter too!
This is a great camera August 24, 2008
I purchased this camera a month ago and so far it's been a great purchase. The camera has great focus and the pictures never come out blurry, battery life is quite good and the big LCD is nice for displaying the pictures
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