[...] you would prefer a really slim camera, the Sony Cyber-Shot T900 is one of the options you should consider. It is only a half inch thick, and very light. It has a [...]

Had this camera for about a day now and tested it on a variety of subjects. Style and handling are very good, as is the amazingly bright and sharp touch display.

As with many digital cameras, i had to tweak some settings to get the optimal results for my personal taste: PGM mode, 200 ISO, vivid colors, auto focus throughout the frame.

And yet, it seems that many pictures lack the total sharpness i have expected. even the areas which are focused lack that ‘wow, razor sharp’ punch. of course you can always add sharping with your favorite software but i was expecting this in a $300+ camera.

Still not sure if i will keep this one or try out the brand new Canon PowerShot SD980IS as well, but it does cost $30 more on Amazon at the moment.
Rating: 4 / 5

This is my first digital camera and I love it. The picture quality is very clear and you can even record for long periods of time. My only qualm is that it’s completely touch screen and I’m worried about the screen cracking. Other than that, it’s a great product.
Rating: 4 / 5

This camera looks great at first glance. But in owning and using the camera for a few months now, I have gone from excitement to regret. Here are the things I really hate about this camera:

1. You can’t just use a cable to transfer photos. You have to have the dock with you. What a hassle! Your other option is to buy a memory stick card reader to plug directly into your machine. Or maybe there’s some custom cable they will sell you. But why should you have to buy extra garbage just to get photos from your camera into your computer? The camera should come with a cable that plugs directly from the camera into a USB port.

2. You have to take the battery out of the camera to charge it. Or buy an AC adapter to plug into the dock. Again, Sony makes you choose between a bad user experience or spending more money for accessories to achieve a decent user experience.

3. This also means that when you travel, you have to pack the battery charger and dock in addition to the USB cable (that plugs into the dock). It boggles my mind that they wouldn’t just stick a micro-USB port on this camera so all you’d need is a micro-USB cable to charge the camera and transfer the photos simultaneously. And yes, micro-USB can handle it. My BlackBerry has a 3.2MP camera and a battery that has more than twice the capacity of the Sony camera. And the required circuitry can’t be too large, considering my BlackBerry is smaller than this camera.

The only excuse I can think of is that Sony wants to force you to spend more money on accessories. And they are counting that the “average user” doesn’t realize that there is a much simpler and convenient solution like micro-USB. The other possible excuse is just stupid corporate decision-making trumping good user experience.

Either way, I feel completely burned as a customer. I wanted to return this study in poor user experience, but I had misplaced the battery charger and I didn’t find it until it was too late to return it. Yet another reason to hate all these extra parts you have to keep track of…

Worse still, we downloaded our first batch of photos only to find that they were very poor quality. A lot of blur and grain because it wasn’t a brightly lit scene. The only time I have gotten decent photos out of this thing is when there is a lot of ambient light.

Garbage.
Rating: 1 / 5

My daughter discovered when you place this camera in the case toe scerrn lights up when the bottom edge (oppisite the wrist strap) toufches the bottom of the case, when you start to pull the camera from the case the screen goes black, thus uvery time she goes to use the camera it is either dead or very low on battery charge not much use to her with this condition, we sent it to sony they said there was no problem with the camera, we went to BestBuy tried thier display camera and guess what same problem the salesman couldnt believe what he was seeing long story short we have a camera that is useless to us unless you want tochance carrying it without a case by the wasy we have tried 2 different cases
Rating: 2 / 5

this camera despite its appeal, which it has loads of! comes with the most disgracefully poor battery of any electronic device i have ever owned.

it is absolutely useless as a camera with a battery that performs like this. and no i dont imagine carrying a pocketful of batteries with me. i have been using the dsc t1 for years and its battery although no larger than the t900s battery outlast it by ten times. this camera is dead in the water.
Rating: 1 / 5