Sony Cybershot DSCS730 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Sony Cybershot DSCS730 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am very happy with my last purchase of Sony Cybershot DSCS730 7.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom because is an excellent camera.
Customer Review: Battery description wrong
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this product for Mother's Day 'cause she's tired of using the AA batteries on her old camera and the description of this camera says that it uses a rechargeable lithium ion battery. This is not true. This camera uses 2 AA batteries. I was forced to return and very disapointed at the inaccurate information.Customer Review: Great Camera!!! Horrible Zoom!
Summary: 4 Stars
This camera has an amazing picture...though its lacking in the zoom category.
It can take a beautiful picture, though it says 3x optical...more like .5 optical.
Don't expect anything spectacular out of the zoom feature of this camera. Though if most of your pictures are close up, or within 12 feet, you should have no problem with it.
Kodak has a better zoom feature, even on the 3x optical. I own the Kodak Z710, 10x optical zoom for my personal pictures, this camera was for my fiancee.
Overall: Great camera, great features...not too happy with any ability it has to zoom.
Customer Review: Taking great pictures! If not fabulous for movies...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is our latest in a loong series of digital cameras. The last two have been Nikons that I thought were pretty decent, but it turns out I've been missing a LOT. This Sony is a good size (I have small hands, though), with a bit of weight to it that convinces me it's more solidly made than some others out there. Our Nikons died because the LCD screens cracked under very little pressure - this one feels a bit more substantial, though I still won't be tossing it around.
But the best part about this camera is that it takes great pictures, right out of the box. The included AA batteries don't last long, but once we switched to rechargeables, there has been no issue. And choosing a camera that uses standard size-and-shape batteries was VERY important, since we do sometimes need to buy & use AA's when we're on the go.
It only includes 22mb of memory, which will only hold 8-10 pictures on the medium-quality mode, but I found a 4Gb card for not too much money that will hold over 1000 more. Just plan on adding the cost of memory to the camera purchase, because the built-in memory simply is not enough.
In general, I'm thrilled. With significantly less shutter delay, I can finally take the pictures I've been WANTING to take all along - spontaneous, cute, funny pictures of my kids in less-than-ideal conditions: low lighting, moving targets, etc (when are ANY kids ever in an ideal pose for more than a millisecond???).
*** UPDATE November 19, 2008
Wanted to update this in response to a question. It has been a bit of a peeve over the last few months that the DSC730 doesn't seem to be able to zoom when you're shooting a video. You can zoom before, but once you click the shutter button to start shooting, you're stuck with the level of zoom you established beforehand. Mighty annoying. My husband's slightly higher-end Sony has this feature, as did my daughter's much cheaper camera... so I have no clue why they'd leave it out of this one. Drat. Just a little fly in the otherwise great ointment. :-)
NOTE: this camera has taken several lickings and still ticking... so I guess my bad "luck" was only with Nikons.
Customer Review: Sony Warranty a joke
Summary: 1 Stars
Purchased sony cybershot in June 07 and the mechanism to open the lense failed. After sending the product in to sony, I was told that mechanism had corroded and would not be covered by warranty. The camera has not seen any unusual treatment and I have no idea why it should be corroded in the first place except that it perhaps suffers from poor design. I have never sent in a product under warranty and the one time it was needed the company failed me. That will be the last camera purchase from Sony. There are better camera manufactures with better warranty service.