Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P150 Digital Camera

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P150

Cyber-shot DSC-P150 Digital Camera Review, by Tracey Capen November 24, 2004

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• Reviewed by: foehn23

  Strengths: Small, decent pictures

  Weaknesses: Design flaws, short lifespan, Sony support will not take responsibility.

  Overall: Terrible, awful, don't buy! A great number of these cameras fail to retract the lens after a short time. A great number get dust inside the lens. Sony support is terrible. They refuse to take responsibility for these design flaws. My camera lasted less than six months. I can't afford a new camera every six months, can you? Don't buy Sony!

• Reviewed by: Jimbo0002

  Strengths: battery life, good movie mode, 7 megapixels are useful for cropping, manual exposure times, size

  Weaknesses: low light performance hase been disappointing, macro mode good but not great

  Overall: .....I did way too much research before buying this and it seemed like about the best all around camera available. It has been pretty good, but outside of bright sunlight or within about 5 feet with the flash, the majority of pictures are either very dark (auto exposure) or blurry (longer exposure). The weak low light performance is surprising considering the 2.8 aperature and supposed 13.5 foot flash range......I recently took some pictures outside at night on a well-lit street and the exposures taken in automatic mode were very dark. The other option is to lengthen the exposure manually and not use the flash but, between shaky hands and moving subjects, this is of limited usefulness......When halloween rolls around in a couple weeks, I am going to have to dust off my old Olympus Stylus Epic film camera- it's picture quality in low light blows the p150 away......Bottom line, sharp pictures are rare with this camera. I would say 80 percent of the photos I have taken with this camera have been blurry.

• Reviewed by: namthang

  Strengths: Small, quick startup

  Weaknesses: Blurry indoor pictures

  Overall: I don't know why other people are giving this camera so many stars. Mine doesn't work well at all indoor. Pictures are blurred. You have to turn on the flash but then, the whole picture becomes dark and ugly. Outdoor pictures are nice though. I previously used Olympus C4000 (4MP) and liked the picture quality. When I upgraded to DSC-P150, I expected a jump in resolution with comparable sharpness. I was completely wrong. Yeah, you get a photo with a higher resolution but it is not as sharp as the 4MP ones I had with my C4000. Whats the meaning of that when I can use Photoshop to resize a 4MP photo to a 40MP photo. OK, probably I've got a defective one then.

• Reviewed by: dar357

  Strengths: Small size. Excellent video quality. Very fast start-up.

  Weaknesses: Very weak Flash. Poor quality image. Absolutely no exposure info.

  Overall: I wanted a good backup digital camera. It is a wonderful slim/compact design that fits in your pocket with a user-friendly menu that is very easy to use. However, the features and options are very basic & designed for beginning digital photographers who desire a point-and-shoot camera. The indoor flash capability/range is very limiting & poor. My white cat appears gray beyond 8 feet distance. I was saddened to see the quality of the image to be so poor. I took a photo of a US Flag 30 feet away, at the 3-Megapixel setting & when downloaded & viewed on a 19-inch-LCD monitor, I could not distinguish the stars in the blue area. They looked like dots. I took a photo of the same flag with a 3 yr. old 4-Megapixel Olympus set at a very-low resolution & the image quality was far better & every star looked like a star. Some images will be blurry. And, there's no exposure info, so you can't tell what the shutter speed is. I must say that the Movie mode (.mpg) is excellent ? however, it has focusing problems at night. Sorry to disappoint other good reviews. Seriously, there are many other 7 Megapixel cameras on the market, your best bet would be to look at another brand.

• Reviewed by: nevuz5

  Strengths: Great picture, easy controls, fast picture processing

  Weaknesses: very small

  Overall: I brought this camera on a vacation and it worked great, it took the knocks from travel and still works suburb. The playback option on a TV is a great way to show off the pictures stored on the camera and given it is a 7 MP camera you can do some heavy zooming of the final picture and not lose resolution.