Sony Cybershot DSCW5 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought the Sony DSC-W5 few weeks ago, so far I'm quite pleased with it. The choice was between this one and the Canon SD-400, both are 5MP as I think that's the optimum resolution for my use. Looks like both cameras have similar picture quality with a slight edge for the Canon.
So what decided me for the Sony? Mainly these 4 reasons:
- I have a Canon G2, which is slow and bulky, but most of all, after 3 years of use the image quality is degradating. Paid $800 for it 3 years ago, one would expect a longer product life.
-Battery. Canon does not know how to measure battery power, it goes from full to empty in 5mn, that's very frustrating as you have to fully charge the battery the day before you're going to use your camera. Sony gives you a detailed view of the charge left, and even in the case you run out of it, you can plug in 2 plain AA batteries.
- Sony is fast, very fast.
- Sony has a large bright LCD, it's a pleasure to take shots and look at the pictures on the 2.5' lCD.
I found the sony very easy to use, the settings are easily accessible and are memorised through power ups (which is sometimes bothersome as you have to check all your settings before using the camera at the begining of the day)
About blurry pictures, on something like 100 pictures I only had a few that were blurry. Mainly if you press the button half way and wait for the camera to autofocus, you'll get a good picture. Also the flash is required as soon as the luminosity dims a bit. The only defect I could find is on the autofocus, I believe the balanced autofocus feature gets confused on some situations, even simple ones like a mountain landscape with no tree in front.
Setting the autofocus to center may solve the problem. Also Sharpness should be set to "+" otherwise you get very soft images.
Conclusion: A great product for the price, picture quality is fantastic (most of the times), the LCD is a charm to look at.

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