Sony DSC-W370 14.1MP Digital Camera with 7x Wide Angle Zoom with Optical Steady Shot Image Stabilization and 3.0 inch LCD (Red)

Nice Purchase

This is my second Sony Cyber-Shot and, like the first, I love it. It has enough variables that you can control your picture quality and compensate for various conditions, yet is easy tom operate. The size is wonderful-- small enough to fit in my pocket or take when I'm out biking. Yet it has a large screen and enough heft to actually feel something there. Like most of the new pocket cameras, it has far more mega pixels than you'll ever need, but that's not a problem, just a waste of technology. There are about 8 or 10 models of Cyber-Shots and I'd be hard put to tell anyone which is best. Just choose a price range and go for it. This one is a little gem.

My friend had the predecessor of this camera and when my Pentax optio sustained a "fall" this spring, I purchased the Canon Cybershot. It's been terrible from the beginning. The dial on the back of the camera spins far to easy - you reach for it, and it almost always is in video mode because the dial was inadvertently spun. Indoor photography is slow and of very poor quality. I'm not new to cameras. I own 3 Nikon SLR's, but you always want a point and shoot for sports and lesser events and I hoped that this would be the right one, after purchasing 2 Nikons for daughter in law and husband in 2009. I'm so disappointed that I didn't buy the Nikon. Sony DSC-W370 14.1MP Digital Camera with 7x Wide Angle Zoom with Optical Steady Shot Image Stabilization and 3.0 inch LCD (Green)Final straw was last weekend when I hosted a breast cancer fundraiser and the unit suddenly stopped working. No display, just a grey screen and blank photos. How frustrating. Fortunately I had brought the Nikon as well as a back up, just in case.

I had such high hopes for this camera but everything about it worked MUCH slower than I expected. It takes a couple seconds to turn on & be "ready." The lag time between pushing the shutter button and the camera being auto-intelligent to take the photo was MUCH too long. A few times I thought maybe I hadn't pushed it in hard enough after pressing halfway to focus, so I'd move the camera to look at it & it would finally fire. (literally 2 seconds after pushing)My main reason for purchase was as a second camera to my DSLR. One that I could drop into my diaper bag & pull out on a moment's notice to catch my cute little toddler in action. My performance standards are realistic. I don't expect DSLR quality...but I DID expect quality that at least matched my 5 year-old, old point & shoot camera. By the time I got this one on & the photo taken, my toddler was off to the next thing and just a blur in the corner of my photo.The video was also a major disappointment. I thought the image stabilization seemed pretty non-existent. I took videos of my son in the bathtub w/ 2 overhead lights on (bright room) and the camera took up to 10 seconds to focus after pressing halfway & then record. Midway through the minute long video, it lost focus for several more seconds. I was still standing about 6' from the tub and had not zoomed/moved camera. My 2nd attempt at video was of a singer on stage - dimly lit - and the video and audio went out of synch about 10 seconds into the video & got progressively worse as I continued to film. The microphone is on the top left edge of camera & I admit, I may've been holding it incorrectly (in the dark) for best output...but that shouldn't have caused the synch issue, just the crackly static!While this was definitely not the camera for me, I did really like the panoramic feature. As a graphic designer who has manually stitched photos together, this feature is pretty awe-inspiring! This camera might make sense for someone who only takes landscapes/scenery/stills and doesn't plan to use the video. Mine is in the box headed back to Amazon tomorrow morning.

I love cameras. I have in the past mostly bought Canon's. I reviewed this Sony Camera on this site and some other camera sites. It got very high marks and I must say that the camera lived up to the hype. It is fantastic. The pictures it takes are so clear and crisp. I took it to a local old car show and even as I bobbed down the street, every picture I took came out crisp and clear. Absolutely amazing.The shutter speed is amazing. I can snap pics faster with this camera than any other. It is truly an amazing camera!Jason