Sony Cybershot DSCS90 4.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: SonyModel: DSCS90
Product features:
- 4.1 MP CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 12 x 15-inch prints
- Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 3x optical zoom lens; large 2.5-inch LCD
- Real Imaging Processor LSI allows for fast start-up and shot-to-shot times, plus extended battery stamina
- Stores images on Memory Stick media; features 32MB internal memory
- Powered by AA-size batteries (NiMH rechargeable batteries supplied); up to 400+ shots per charge
- Adobe Photoshop CS5 Upgrade [Old Version]
- Serif PhotoPlus X3
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]
- Aperture 3
- Pixelmator [Old Version]
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Sony Cybershot DSCS90 4.1 MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Customer Review: Less Than Meets the Eye
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the Sony DSC-S90 after much research. On paper it looked great, with the huge lcd and great movie mode making it stand out from its competitors (I also looked at Canons and Kodaks in this price range). BUT...
After receiving the camera, I started taking pics of my kids around the house, and the results were terrible. The subject in front of the camera was far too bright, and the background far too dark. Red eye was quite bad, several pics were inexplicably blurry (in auto flash mode, not in any manual setting!) and to top it off, the pictures had a yellowish tint, almost as if taken in sepia, though they were not.
Granted, these pics were taken at night under indoor lighting, not ideal conditions. So I did a comparison with our old camera, 4-year-old, 2MP, Kodak DX3600, taking several flash photos of people under the same conditions. And lo and behold, the cluncky old Kodak gave much more pleasing results than the shiny new Sony, with better colors, less blur, less red-eye, and a more balanced exposure of subject and background.
So this camera's going back. I haven't even tried it outdoors in daytime, since I take quite of few of my pics indoors and need a camera that can turn in a decent performance under those conditions.
A few other somewhat annoying things:
1. camera size is a little small for me and it did not feel very solid in my hands.
2. There is a "red-eye reduction" flash mode, but to turn it on or off you have to cycle through a whole bunch of menus, rather than have it available at the touch of a button, as (again) it is on our old Kodak. And when you do finally turn it on, you sometimes still get red-eye.
3. The USB cable connects to the bottom of the camera (!) meaning that as you transfer pics to the PC you have to lay it down either on the lens side or on the lcd side, and it's quite awkward. Presumably it's down there so it can also connect to the Sony cradle (sold separately). But again, the old Kodak does a better job, since it has BOTH a connector on the bottom if you have the cradle, and also one on the side, if you don't.
In short, there's less to this camera than meets the eye, and I'm back to the drawing board.
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