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17 years ago
I'm now the happy owner of a Sony CyberShot T70
Had a bit of an odd experience when I bought it though... I walk into a camera shop (photo shop?) and this friendly looking salesman comes over and asks if he can assist me with anything. I say "Yeah, I'm looking for a small Sony camera around 400$, what do you have?"
And he's like "Ah well you don't want a Sony, look at this nice Pentax! We've just got them in!". I tried telling him that I didn't want a Pentax or a Samsung or Panasonic - I wanted a Sony, but noooo, he kept on yapping about the Pentax and I just said "Fine, if you don't want to sell me a Sony, I'll buy it somewhere else" and left. What the fuck is up with these people?
I looked up the Pentax when I got him and it's crap compared to the Sony, and besides, I love Sony's cameras.
I've owned 2 Sony Mavicas and they were both great cameras, but technology outpaced them, on one front in particular: Storage.
First one was a 1.3 MP that stored on floppy discs (yeah that's right) and the second one was a 5.0 MP that stored on 3" cd's. Sony is one of the few that have ventured past memory cards for digital camera memory. and you can't quite say it was a flop because the cameras received a lot of praise and they sold pretty well.
I still have the 5 MP one, and it's a fantastic camera especially considering that it's 5 years old. You don't need the extra megapixels that the newer ones have and this thing has a battery life of 210 minutes and Hologram laser assisted auto-focus (one of the few of those proprietary techs that actually works), but when you're limited to 256 MB storage on a small cd (or 2.88 MB on a floppy disk) and have to lug around a camera bigger than most professional SLR's just to accommodate a cd burner or floppy drive, it's gonna be outdated pretty fast.
I bought them back when memory cards were still on price level with diamonds, so it seemed like a good idea to use inexpensive memory which you could get anywhere and you could just pop it straight into your pc to transfer.
Aaaanyway, I'm rambling.
But yeah, new camera is smexy :)
8.1 megapixels, large 3" touch screen, Carl Zeiss 3x zoom lens (plus 10x smart zoom), Super SteadyShot (gyro stabilized lenses), Smile Shutter, Face Detection, in-camera photo and video editing and HD output.
And it's so easy to use! You just flip down the lens cover and 0.18 seconds later, you've taken and stored your first picture. Add 4.9 seconds more and you've taken 5. It's incredibly fast because of the Biontz image processor from Sony's high end DSLR cameras and it takes great pics :)
Had a bit of an odd experience when I bought it though... I walk into a camera shop (photo shop?) and this friendly looking salesman comes over and asks if he can assist me with anything. I say "Yeah, I'm looking for a small Sony camera around 400$, what do you have?"
And he's like "Ah well you don't want a Sony, look at this nice Pentax! We've just got them in!". I tried telling him that I didn't want a Pentax or a Samsung or Panasonic - I wanted a Sony, but noooo, he kept on yapping about the Pentax and I just said "Fine, if you don't want to sell me a Sony, I'll buy it somewhere else" and left. What the fuck is up with these people?
I looked up the Pentax when I got him and it's crap compared to the Sony, and besides, I love Sony's cameras.
I've owned 2 Sony Mavicas and they were both great cameras, but technology outpaced them, on one front in particular: Storage.
First one was a 1.3 MP that stored on floppy discs (yeah that's right) and the second one was a 5.0 MP that stored on 3" cd's. Sony is one of the few that have ventured past memory cards for digital camera memory. and you can't quite say it was a flop because the cameras received a lot of praise and they sold pretty well.
I still have the 5 MP one, and it's a fantastic camera especially considering that it's 5 years old. You don't need the extra megapixels that the newer ones have and this thing has a battery life of 210 minutes and Hologram laser assisted auto-focus (one of the few of those proprietary techs that actually works), but when you're limited to 256 MB storage on a small cd (or 2.88 MB on a floppy disk) and have to lug around a camera bigger than most professional SLR's just to accommodate a cd burner or floppy drive, it's gonna be outdated pretty fast.
I bought them back when memory cards were still on price level with diamonds, so it seemed like a good idea to use inexpensive memory which you could get anywhere and you could just pop it straight into your pc to transfer.
Aaaanyway, I'm rambling.
But yeah, new camera is smexy :)
8.1 megapixels, large 3" touch screen, Carl Zeiss 3x zoom lens (plus 10x smart zoom), Super SteadyShot (gyro stabilized lenses), Smile Shutter, Face Detection, in-camera photo and video editing and HD output.
And it's so easy to use! You just flip down the lens cover and 0.18 seconds later, you've taken and stored your first picture. Add 4.9 seconds more and you've taken 5. It's incredibly fast because of the Biontz image processor from Sony's high end DSLR cameras and it takes great pics :)
