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Opinion: Best pocketable digital camera.

Opinion: I have had so many digital camera's but none of them have excited me like the Sony T1 it's size is amazing. Yet the weight has been left pretty high which is a good thing for less camera shake.

The flash is only of use for taking close up portrates, the movie is the best I have seen from a small camera it's better than my Palm Corder you do have to invest in a larger duo card and they are expensive but the results will amaze you.

As a fashion accessory or like me a carry around camera it fits the bill outstanding your friends when they see it, every body wants to hold and touch it ! The main reason is the 2.5inch screen . Although when you looking at some of the photo's you have just taken they tend to appear very grainy in the viewer. It also needs a Sony leather case which I am led to belive is on it's way to the UK shops soon.

As far as the battery life I think that is great it seems to last ample for what I do, a smaller more portable charger would be nice , again I am led to belive it to is coming soon.

I have large hands and I was very worried that it would not be a users camera but let me tell you it is, Sony have the knack of making everything to your hands including the drop down shutter cover which on my Konika was very hard to open. Deleting a shot is easy, the whole thing of setting up is real cool.

The downside is the pictures are NOT GOOD I have owned many 5.00mill Pix cameras and for some reason every picture I have taken so far with this camera is of poor quality, the prints which I print on Photo Paper are not good, they have no definition and a very weak color ballance.

Red eye is common even with the red eye setting on but I am prepared to persiver a little longer and take a overhall opinion later. The idea of having it in my pocket unlike my last Minolta F300 which took fantastic photo's but in truth did not fit well in your pocket is the pay off BAD PHOTO'S well I will have to wait and see.

Opinion: If you want a small camera with lots of pixels - this might be your camera. If you want a small camera with lots of pixels that provides decent looking images, this is NOT the camera you want. I worked with this camera for several hours trying to get a decent image from it. The biggest problem I encountered was a red hue throughout the image. I tried all of the camera’s white balance modes and even tried to work with it with Photoshop but only after a lot of tweaking could I get a true-to-life color image. One problem appears to be that the red curve is inconsistent from the light to dark. Also, with such a small lens the camera doesn’t do very good in low light conditions. Almost every picture I took in moderate lighting was blurry due to “camera shake”. I assume this is mostly due to a low “shutter speed” required to make up for the higher f-stop of the small lens. I’m taking mine back

Opinion: I've had this camera for a few months now, and I bought the 512 Duo Pro card and the scuba pack.
For the size, there is no other camera which can take movies at 30 frames per second and 5 megapixel images. I have had good luck with the image quality, but at night you HAVE to be careful not to get you fingers in front of the camera or near the flash, or you will get reflection into the lens (and this is because the camera is really small, so you tend to hang on to all sides of it).

Once you have that figured out, my images are always quite good. Occasional red-eye, but I don't use the reducer, since the flash annoys people, I'd rather just have Microsoft's excellent Picture Manager (included in the new version of Office) fix the picture and have good expressions in the faces.

The screen is great, espescially for scuba, where you want to see as much picture as possible to see if you need to re-take a shot. The scuba pack has a built-in diffuser, which makes underwater pictures much better. You then need to run them through auto-levels in Photoshop, but that's true with any underwater picture.

My only complaint is that it might just be TOO small, but then again, I take it everywhere, and that's one of it's biggest plusses as well.