Sony Cybershot DSC-T100 8.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom and Super Steady Shot (Black)

Not a great buy. Bought this one for my cousin. The picture quality aint all that great for the price you pay for this camera.

This is the 4th Sony camera I've had and each time they keep getting better (which is why I've bought 4). This newest one, I got the red, is the best looking camera I've seen (and everyone agrees). However, I have a few qualms with it from my first uses. 1st they got rid of the review button on the left hand side of the t-pad and instead copied all the other camera makers and added a view button on top. While this works OK, I really miss being able to quickly go back to the last picture I took push the delete button and then take another, it's not a HUGE deal, but it just takes more time. 2nd is that the screen quality is not nearly as good as other Sony's I've had in the past. While it's GIANT which is nice, the pixels are fairly large and I feel that this lack of resolution makes the pictures look worse than they do when they get on the computer. The new face detection feature is pretty neat, though I haven't really been able to tell what difference it makes. Also I was a little upset by the high ISO setting, i tried using it at a club and not only was it so dark that the picture was useless, but it was also SOO grainy and blurry that nothing could be identified. I'll have to experiment with it more, but so far it was a bit of a let down. The steady shot works pretty well, I've only had a slight blur on one photo (which was expected as by hand got bumped) and all the others have been perfect which is quite welcome after my last camera without Steadyshot that blurred frequently. Another BIG DISAPPOINTMENT for me was that they got rid of the INFOLithium battery, I don't know if this is because of the issues they've been having, or just because this one lasted longer or what, but it's annoying to not have it say how many minutes I have left as I've gotten used to it for the past 3 cameras from them. Still it's not THAT big of a deal, just kind of annoying that they got rid of a feature. The 5x zoom is very good, and welcome over the measly 3x that the older versions had. The size and weight are really good (although it could be a bit slimmer as it's still almost an inch thick). Still it's smaller than my wallet and about as thick as my cell phone, so I can't really complain. All in all it's been a great purchase so far and I'm quite pleased, and will still be sticking with Sony in the future as this camera is so much better than my friends' Casios and Canons.

I honestly have no idea how anyone can give this camera 5 stars. Sure, it looks beautiful, has an amazing screen, and the audio is pretty snazzy too, but where it falls completely on its face is in the one thing it should do best of all - TAKE PICTURES. Outdoor photos are OK, but most come out pretty bland looking. I took a picture of the street outside my home, and what is bright and lifelike in real life turned out muddied (but clear) in the picture with the one exception being the stop sign, which is red in real life, but looked like flourescent orange in the picture. Almost cartoonlike.I probably could have lived with that, but the final straw for this camera was the insanely terrible pictures it takes indoors, even with brightly lit rooms. It seems to do OK with the person or object that is the main focus, but every single thing around or behind the main subject(s) become a pixelized mess. The worst I've ever seen. I can't return this camera back to amazon fast enough. Sony should be ashamed of themselves for releasing a camera this awful. Great design, absolute junk in practice. I was always a Canon person, but decided to give Sony a chance. That was my mistake. Don't make the same mistake I did, at least not with this horrendous excuse for a camera.

I really wanted to like this camera, but it's shortcomings were just too much to overcome. Outdoors, it did a commendable job, handling most shots well. It also had a good movie recording mode and allowed zooming, while recording. It felt like I had a mini handicam with me, at all times, which was nice.The problems occured indoors and/or low light shots. The camera's flash isn't very strong. Skin tones especially, tended to look water color painted, if not close enough(within say 7ft or so). Also, the camera(in Auto mode) would raise the ISO, sometimes quite high, to compensate for it's weak flash, resulting in photos that were noisy. This was the problem. The indoor/low light shots were just too unpredictable. Yea, you could get around this by using Program mode and picking a specific ISO, and flash intensity(nice feature), for the situation, but that's not what a Point and Shoot camera should be. You should be able to throw it in auto mode and get consistently good results on most of your shots, which wasn't happening for me. Also, using Program mode, face detection was no longer available, if you are into that.All in all, I was disappointed with this camera, as a P&S camera. It just required too much baby sitting, indoors and in lower light. On top of that, the cost was a bit high(about $50-$100 more than other cameras in it's class).

Everything you would want in a camera in a compact package.I am specifically impressed with the features - especially the "Rapid Photo Mode" which is critical at sporting events.