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Sony Cybershot DSCW50 6MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
Buy New: $344.00
New (2) Used (8) from $149.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  136 reviews
Sales Rank: 13018
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 3
Display Size: 2.5
Maximum Focal Length: 18.9
Minimum Focal Length: 6.3
Maximum Resolution: 6
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 2.3 x 1
MPN: DSCW50
Model: DSCW50
UPC: 027242682238
EAN: 0027242682238
ASIN: B000EGLXTW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints | | • | 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD display | | • | VGA movie mode (640 x 480) allows videos with sound, limited only by memory-card capacity | | • | High Sensitivity Mode (ISO 1000) allows shooting in low-light conditions | | • | Stores images on Memory Stick cards (32 MB of internal memory included) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 131 more reviews...
Nice Point&Shoot but not worth $400 any more! February 20, 2009
This camera cost around $400 over two years ago, I can't see paying that much any more for a basic little camera with virtually no zoom. I am planning to upgrade to a Canon Powershot XS10IS soon and that's much more camera for virtually the same amount of money.
That being said, the Sony is a nice basic P&S for the average user. I really love the macro feature and have taken a lot of great macro shots...even sold a few! I love using the B&W and sepia features as well. It shoots nicely without a tripod in sunlight and daylight, but when the sun starts going down you're going to need the flash or a tripod. I recommend getting a tripod. I always use the Program Auto setting so I can manually adjust the settings. Battery is long-lived, although the little plastic clip that holds the battery down fell out some time ago.
One thing that I don't like about this camera is that it takes a loooong time to focus. I have missed a lot of shots because of that.
It takes OK video. If you want a camera that will take great shots at your kid's concert, THIS IS NOT THAT CAMERA. Get something with more zoom. The beach and snow settings are useful. It's the perfect size to stick in your pocket and go.
Now to the problem...after two+years of use, this camera has developed some kind of spots INSIDE the lens. I have never spilled anything on it, so I can't figure out what has caused this. They are like glass bubbles, but if they had always been there, they would have shown up in pictures before now. This is why I have decided it's time to upgrade...that and I want a camera with lots of zoom for shooting wildlife and distance shots.
It's been a good camera and I will continue to use it for some things after I upgrade, but if you've got $400 to spend I'm sure you could find something that's higher quality.
 A good camera with a fatal flaw December 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this camera for almost two years now, and have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. It's a fabulous little machine, takes super-fast pictures, is wonderfully compact yet functional, and I hardly ever need to use the flash which saves me on constant battery charging. It has everything going for it... except the fact that it has now broken twice in the same way.
When you turn on the camera, the lens moves in and out of its own accord, and the screen stays blank with only the word "Access". Nothing you press has any effect, except possibly to conjure up the message "Turn camera off and on again" which never ever works. This is not fun.
It seems to have happened around the same time each of these past two years, which is incredibly frustrating. The first time, it was still under warranty so I paid for shipping and Sony fixed it for me, which was fine. But the second time was the last straw. I'm currently studying abroad, and like to take lots of pictures to remember my trip by, but after talking to Sony's online customer support (which was as helpful as they could be, I suppose) I realized that the only way to fix it was to send it in, AGAIN. Grr. I really love the way this camera works, and think it takes fabulous pictures. And I want to buy another Sony camera because this one has done such a good job... BUT I'm not sure I'm willing to risk this happening all over again.
I realize this camera's not really on the market any more, so this probably doesn't even matter, but I would say there are few enough people who've had this problem that it shouldn't necessarily discourage someone from buying the camera, although I think people should be warned. It sounds like this issue crops up with other Sony products, from reviews I've been looking at. Yet, what digital camera is perfect? Every brand has its own quirks and screw-ups, I suppose. What frustrates me most about this one is the repetition of the problem, especially when no probable cause can be identified.
Decent camera but we're buying another one September 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife and I bought this camera for travel and family photos. It may be that we just haven't figured out how to determine what settings are necessary but picture quality is not consistent. Landscape shots seem to be very nice even though we would like to have more zoom than 3x. Indoor shots have never turned out well for us. Very difficult to capture moving shots and some shots seem to have a lot of noise, especially in ISO setting. Camera is fairly intuitive and I love the size of it. But we're looking for a different camera after 3 years because we just can't take the bad pictures anymore.
Pros:
Size
Look
Battery life
Quick start-up
Good landscape shots
Cons:
Inconsistent picture quality
Poor indoor shots
Slow shut-down
Nice outdoor, daylight pictures. Otherwise, hit or miss July 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this camera from a large retail chain about 3 years ago (yes, the model is that old). First thing I must say: The price here is ridiculous for this camera. Its not worth $388, or whatever they have it listed for. That said, onto the pros and cons:
PROS
- Takes EXCELLENT pictures in any type of daylight (even mostly cloudy skies), including beautiful sunrise and sunset pictures (so long as its not too far along). Great clarity, excellent color, and wonderful balance. Can't beat this camera there.
- The movie setting is quite good. Not HD, but it doesn't have a limit on the video length (like many point-and-shoots do). If you have the memory, you can take as long a video as you want.
On that same note, the mic on this is actually quite good! Excellent for recording convos or even concerts (as long as you aren't standing right in front of the speakers).
- The camera does have a lot of settings, and the ability to create a 'custom' setting too by moving around ISO, flash, zoom, balance, and other settings.
- Macro mode is nice for up close shots
- The battery lasts FOREVER! On one charge, I've gotten 250 pics and a couple 2 minute videos while using the preview screen quite generously (still had some life too). Use a couple of the power save options, and I have no doubts you could easily hit 350-400 pictures on one charge.
- Turn it on, and a second later you can take a picture. Another second, and you can take another picture. Very quick turnaround.
- ISO setting isn't terrible (not great either) at taking low light pics w/o flash. Pics tend to be grainy though.
- Great, clear lens and a decent optical zoom (the digital zoom is fine, but I find using it tends to make it difficult to get a non-blurry shot).
CONS
- The root of many of this camera's problems: NO image stabilization feature! Be prepared to delete or re-take half of your pictures because of this, unless you have nerve and stability of an army sniper. W/o the flash in anything but direct sunlight, you are in trouble. Even with the flash, you need to hold the camera as still as possible. This wouldn't be as a big an issue, but...
- The 2.5 inch LCD is decent sized, but its difficult to see how good the picture actually is UNTIL you see it on your computer. So, you may take 10 pictures and think you have 10 winners, but turns out only 2 or 3 are keepers.
- The click/rotating wheel that has chooses one of the 10 modes of the camera is very easily turned by accident. Thus, you get the perfect shot, click the shutter...and find out that the camera was actually on video mode. Shot missed. Disappointment abounds.
- These 10 functions are also...shall we say...questionable as to there actual operation. Let me say this: Out of the 10 modes, I use just 3 of them (Auto, Landscape, and Video) 98% of the time. The others are pretty specific to certain scenarios, and I question if a couple of them actually do anything special (one setting is for beach shots, and it reportedly 'accentuates' the blue color. Compared to an auto beach shot, I can see no difference between the two).
- The flash has a 'groove zone', which I have found is about 4 to 6 feet away. Anywhere outside of that zone, and the flash does not perform as well. Closer and people look like they are bio-luminescent. Further away, and things start getting shadowy. There's also no options to change the flash intensity (fill, close, etc). So, you get the same flash each time. Red Eye is tough to avoid too. The flash indicator/RE light helps SOMETIMES (70% of the time), but the slow-synchro flash option is only effective maybe 15% of the time.
- Taking shots at night is the worst. Blurry without the flash, and the flash is usually too weak to make the shot look good regardless. The 'twilight modes' are also useless, as the lack of image stabilization comes back into play.
- Small quips: In video mode, you can't zoom at all while recording. You can only stop, zoom, and restart. Settings and features are not intuitive, but a quick read of the manual usually suffices. Cyber-shot software is awful. It runs EXTREMELY slow, doesn't offer many features compared to EasyShare, and its red eye fix (arguably the most used aspect of basic editing software) makes eyes look gray, dead, and unnatural.
This camera isn't bad, and has some nice features. However, image stabilization, IMO, is the reason why this camera isn't recommended.
Good camera, resistant and long lasting battery July 20, 2008
I bought this camera through amazon.com two years ago, and I still use it a lot. I bought a more advanced model of the panasonic lumix one because I wanted to try a different brand (nothing really bad ever happened to this one, I just wanted a newer one). It is indeed a good camera, and I took amazing pictures of it, plus the videos. It comes with a built in mic, which is good, and the battery runs out pretty slow, which is great. I cant remember how many times I may have dropped it and it is still sturdy and fine. The pictures come out good, except when there is very little lights, then, it may get blurry. The other con is that even though it says it corrects red eyes, it never did the job well, but I dont know if that is common or not with other brands too (also, I like altering the pictures myself, so the red eyes ain't that big of a deal, I would say).
It is definitely NOT the best camera in the world, but if you're looking for something practical, small and handy, this one can be the one. The 7.2 MP model sold much more, and it is the exact same camera with a bit more definition.
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