Sony Cyber-shot DSC-707 5 Megapixel Bridge Camera

Not the most user-friendly digital...

Strengths: Reliable, fast, excellent macro capabilities

Weakness: Only 5X optical zoom, metering problems

Not the most user-friendly digital camera I've owned, but it takes the highest quality pictures. While I've generally been happy with it, it has a very annoying "feature"- when using the camera in manual focus mode, the camera re-adjusts the focus when you hold the shutter button down halfway, causing me to have to refocus every time. All told, I would probably go with a different model if I had...
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Not the most user-friendly digital camera I've owned, but it takes the highest quality pictures. While I've generally been happy with it, it has a very annoying "feature"- when using the camera in manual focus mode, the camera re-adjusts the focus when you hold the shutter button down halfway, causing me to have to refocus every time.

All told, I would probably go with a different model if I had it to do over again. The picture quality is great, but this camera is not pleasant to deal with when doing macro photography or any kind of photography where you would want to focus manually.

By axthetax - Jul 14, 2004

Overall I am Really happy with the...

Strengths: The camera's automatic focus is easy and takes great pictures. The menus on the camera is easy to use and understand. I like the 5 mega pixels.

Weakness: The Mpeg 320 by 240 16fps is good, but I wish that the camera would take 720x480 to make DVD Movies. But no still camera does. The manual is weak in how to use the extra features.

Overall I am Really happy with the camera. I read the reviews that the camera has a severe white balancing problem, but I didn't find that to be a problem at all. You can control the flash to low,normal, or high. You can take night shots in the dead of night without a flash, but it comes out with a green like gray color at about 1 mega pixel in quality. If you are taking pictures of animal life...
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Overall I am Really happy with the camera. I read the reviews that the camera has a severe white balancing problem, but I didn't find that to be a problem at all. You can control the flash to low,normal, or high. You can take night shots in the dead of night without a flash, but it comes out with a green like gray color at about 1 mega pixel in quality. If you are taking pictures of animal life at night or a spy camera, it is good for that.
I bought the F707 at $699 when the F717 was just released. Which is a great deal compared to the higher F717. I called Sony and they couldn't sell me that the changes on the F717 is all that much better for a $300 price difference.

By btpheritage - Nov 12, 2002

This camera is INCREDIBLE. I...

Strengths: 5X Optical zoom. Flexible point-and-shoot or manual control. Excellent, crisp photos. Fast focus, good write time. Easy to use menus and controls. Good battery life. Direct Windows XP compatible.

Weakness: Limited capacity of Memory Sticks. Haven't found any others.

This camera is INCREDIBLE. I actually bought a lesser camera, and took it back the next day to get the 707, which is the one I really wanted. I bough this camera to be my replacement for film cameras. This baby has great zoom capability, focuses quickly and takes SPECTACULAR photos. It is easy to use, the features can be very quickly mastered. I took it right out of the box, and did a full day of...
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This camera is INCREDIBLE. I actually bought a lesser camera, and took it back the next day to get the 707, which is the one I really wanted. I bough this camera to be my replacement for film cameras. This baby has great zoom capability, focuses quickly and takes SPECTACULAR photos. It is easy to use, the features can be very quickly mastered. I took it right out of the box, and did a full day of telephoto sports shots at soccer games, and the results were astounding.

Some complain of its bulk, but if compared to a traditional SLR body with a telephoto comparable to to the 707's zoom capability, it's actually very compact.

The compatibility with Win XP makes it foolproof to download the photos.

I couldn't afford a $4,000 digital SLR, so this full featured 5MP, 10X zoom dynamo for $800 was a great investment for me. I expect many years of excellent performance. Thanks, Sony.

By jgtoohey - Oct 21, 2002

This is the best digital camera on...

Strengths: Easy to use, excellent features. Excellent picture quality, audio, slide shows, etc. The best digital camera!

Weakness: None

This is the best digital camera on the market. I love it! Everything about it is excellent. I would recommend this camera to anyone and already have. For the price and comparison to the other digital camera's you are getting more camera for you buck.

By PhotomanDan - Aug 30, 2002

check all the main line online...

Strengths: fast aperture, great glass, logical menus, fast turnon, strong battery life

Weakness: memory stick, memory stick, could use optical viewfinder.

check all the main line online reviews, like steve's digicams, imaging resources and phil askey at dp--phil in particular is tough to please, but even he loves this camera.

By doey - Jul 19, 2002