A great piece of kit

More pixels than you can shake a stick at, read the manual to find all sorts of tricks (although tinkering brings a lot to hand anyway). More intuitive than it first appears - menus are inevitable. Standard lens OK for general shots, but the 75-300mm zoom gives a lot more range particularly for outdoor shots. Spare battery and a few CF cards not a bad idea if you are going snap-happy, but will get hundreds on most cards. Viewing and deleting is very quick, no massive start-up time. Does need technical savvy as do most SLRs, otherwise use a regular camera. Flash card adapter for PC access would be a good accessory, as would simple bag - none supplied for a high end item like this.

BE WARY

I've ordered this product from 2 different suppliers now, and each time I believe I have received a faulty counterfeit product. The first one had a similar issue to that of an earlier review, in that it only took in memory up to 1gb, and then was very difficult to take the data off the card. I'm not quite sure what to do as there appears to be alot of evidence that alot of suppliers are providing fakes in the hope that the fakes will work, when in fact alot of them are faulty.

Buyer beware!

Please be very wary when buying this camera, bought this camera for my mum and dad for taking on a 30th wedding anniversary holiday, when they got back the camera came up with a C:13:01 format error, so far all photos are still lost, have been on many forums with lots of angry sony customers but so far no one, not even sony, seem to be able to come up with an answer.

WARNING: may be DVM-4CLD and not DVM-12CLD as pictured

The tape was delivered very quickly - I got it the day after I ordered it - but it was the Sony DVM-4CLD mini-dv head cleaner and not the DVM-12CLD. It still did the job, but from what I understand, the DVM-12CLD is longer.

Sony MSA-128A Memory Stick - 128MB

a grt piece of kit for playing MP3 and small movies on my sony clie PEG-TG50 and other PDA`S but does not support ATRAC3.

Style over substance - avoid at all costs! Very poor image quality

This is by far the worst digital compact I have had the misfortune to use, avoid it at all costs if you want to be able to take good photos with a point-and-click digital compact!

I purchased this camera as a Christmas present for my girlfriend as it is small ("handbag friendly) and appears to possess some good features (image stabilisation, face detection etc) in addition to being 8.1MP.

To give Sony some credit, the camera does have a good solid feel and the LCD screen presented crisp images. However, it was only after my girlfriend uploaded the photos she had taken on Christmas day that I realised how poor the image quality actually is. All the pictures came out with a foggy haze over them. Each image also had a lot of"noise" and in low light conditions the pictures were appalling. Comparing the photos that had been taken by an Ixus 750 I realised how bad the images actually were. I use a 40D SLR as my main camera so know a bit about playing around with camera settings, and even when I changed the ISO and flash settings on this camera the pictures still came out far worse than the lower MP Ixus.

My suspicion is that to get the style (and price) of this camera right Sony have sacrificed the quality of the image sensors and compressors, leading to poor image reproduction. This is a real shame as it has the potential to be a nice little camera.

If you value the quality of your pictures look elsewhere (the Ixus range is great)

description is incorrect and sold w/o adapter !!!

what does the description"+ Adaptor M2 and MS Pro Compatible"
suppose to relay to the customer. i am trying to get my money refunded

Very Pleased Customer

Very quick dispatch, goods well packaged....Thankyou!