Sony DSC-V1 Digital Camera (Sony-DSCV1)

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-V1

DSC-V1 Digital Camera (Sony-DSCV1) Review, by Alan Stafford August 26, 2003

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• Reviewed by: nedillon

  Strengths: Great Quality, Loads of options.

  Weaknesses: Haven't found any.

  Overall: I have had this camera for over a year now and I love it I take loads of photo's. I occassionaly have the blurry photo but I have come to realize that it is because I am trying to take them before letting the flash charge up again. I notice that by being patient and waiting (I may miss acouple cute photo's) they aren't blurry. I only use the LCD to review the photo's I shut it off when taking photos and by doing that my batter lasts a VERY LONG TIME!! My cousin has the same camera and she uses the lcd when taking photo's and after her battery is done I'm still taking pictures. I love the ease of the camera and have purchased the big flash, the zoom lens (comes in handy at football games), and also the telephoto lens. I will never give this camera up. Location of pop up flash you get used to, I have and find no difficulty with grip at all I always use the wrist strap and yell at my husband if he doesn't put it around his wrist. Again Great camera well worth the money.

• Reviewed by: jczech

  Strengths: Image quality, focus speed, size relative to other cameras with the same features, price.

  Weaknesses: Small LCD, poor auto white-balance feature, not the best ergonomics, Memory stick media only.

  Overall: For me it came down to purchasing either the DSC-V3 or the DSC-V1, which was less than half the price of the V3 at the time of my purchase...I ended up going with the V1, and I'm happy with the decision. The picture quality is great, and auto-focus is fast and sharp in ANY lighting conditions, and for me these are the two most important features of any camera. By not buying the V3 I lose some features such as - CF Card capability, RAW imaging support, larger LCD, 30fps movie mode and 7mp sensor (not really a big deal - 5mp will produce huge prints). The V3 is definitely a better overall camera, but the V1 is a much better value (at this time).

• Reviewed by: nerdsincorparated

  Strengths: Nightshot,nightframing

  Weaknesses: Small LCD screen, poor battery life, location of lift-up flash.

  Overall: Nightframing are a feature that every camera manufacturer should add to the mid- high end cameras as it is great for those low light situations. A bigger 1,8"LCD SCREEN would make life more earsier for those whose are half blind. Sony should replace their propriety battery with a rechargable 2100 AA PENLIGHT batteries that can use normal alkaline batteries in case of emergency.

• Reviewed by: gloin

  Strengths: very high quality pictures, succesfull in low light conditions, manual controls, size

  Weaknesses: low battery life, useless software

  Overall: I ve been using this camera for 6 months and I m very happy with my first digital camera and my huge picture albums. I highly recommend you to purchase an extra battery and also use Picasa software instead of Sony's Image mixer.

• Reviewed by: rickznberg

  Strengths: Occasionaly great photos, better then most of my previous cameras. I really should give it a four stars minus, good manual settings enabling you to get natural lighting shots

  Weaknesses: most of manual settings can't be seen in settings cause they are tiny . Too many blurry photos

  Overall: I feel a complete contradiction to what was written here in a way, and what I get from my camera. I occasionally hear the same complaints from others. On occasion the camera takes great photos, but soo many options to go thru, I have to wonder if experts tried them out. Most of time though the photos especially in manual settings are off a little or blurry but occasionally a great photo comes out. The question becomes why don't others experience the same things? Other reviewers give it 3.5 out of five for noise and poor battery and average photos. I have found it better then my other cameras which had less resolution but you must work to get the great shots and have not tried any newer cameras from other makers. I don't know if this is a quality control issue and I have bad camera or its a user problem so I am torn here. After two cameras I am not sure I want to try again which is why I didn't give it a higher rating The other question I end up asking me is it worth keeping to get the occasional great photo.