Sony DSC-W5

Pros: Great image quality. Good AF assist light that WORKS. Price for what you get.

Cons: Awkward hand grip. Limited f-stops in manual mode. Need PRO stick for best movie mode.

The Bottom Line: Score of "4" across the board - a very good camera for the price that offers decent features with near-pro image quality. Look for sales. Worth the price.

Review: Intro:


These days, potentially bad cameras are usually reserved to off branded or lesser-known brands you see in office supply stores and on Ebay auctions. We re at the point in digital camera design that pretty much any camera you...

Pros: Sturdy, well built case. Menu system is simple and intuitive. Great outdoor performance. Viewfinder.

Cons: Photos often blurry indoors! LCD makes quality of shot hard to tell.

Review: I have had this camera for a year and a half now. Overall it is a pretty good camera and outdoors it takes awesome pictures. I have had blurring issues with it on occasion and am not sure if my hands shake or the auto focus function is not working...

Pros: compact, great pictures

Cons: red eye reduction delay, complex settings

Review: We purchased the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W5 after much research. We have two young preschoolers, and we were looking for an easy to use, compact, high quality digital camera.

We have had this camera for two months. I am amazed at the picture...

Pros: Clear pics. Fast to shoot and recover. Very good battery life. Very good display.

Cons: Tough to shoot and zoom with one hand. Mode Wheel can turn while shooting.

Review: Easy to use and takes great pictures and ok video (with good light).
We bought it for our summer vacation. Took ~ 700 shots, deleted ~ 200 from the large display and menu on the back of the camera. Uploaded 500 pics through picasa (free from...

Pros: very good outdoor/bright light performance

Cons: lack of controls, poor low-light performance

The Bottom Line: Nice camera for outdoors, but if you expect to shoot indoor most of the time - think again.

Review: Intro
I purchased W-5 to complement Sony F-717 which we already own. F717 is large and powerful camera, and I was looking for a camera that can be used to carry around at all times and which would take great outdoor pictures but would...

Pros: Awesome picture quality Very easy to use Awesome batt life Super fast start up

Cons: Sometimes the "shakey" icon comes on even when using tripod Flash no grunty enough

Review: Owned the cam for about 3 weeks now, actually swapped for this over the ixus50 as there was too mch noise. very happy with cam. saturation and contrast is awesome and outdoor shots are amazing. I love the options to increase sharpness, saturation...

Pros: Price, Quality, Settings, battery life

Cons: nothing

Review: My new Sony DSC-W5 is awesome. There is so much you can do with it. I love all the features.

Pros: Internal memory, efficient on batteries, good zoom, lots of functions for specialty pictures

Cons: Lens can get stuck after hard use (10 months), but Sony fixes it under warranty.

Review: I have had 2 of these cameras. They have been great for me thus far. I like Sony's cameras because they are easy to use and understand. The zoom functions are great and the very large (2.5") LCD screen gives the user much to look at on the back of...

Pros: Big viewable LCD, preview feature can skip if another shot wants to be taken

Cons: Flash is not too powerful

Review: I bought this camera to replace an older 3 MPixel one I had. What convinced me about this camera was the it was within my budget and that the screen was BIG!
The camera works very well. It takes pictures at good speeds and it can skip the...

Pros: excellent quality.

Cons: non-flash photos are terrible quality and flash is really long.

Review: My parents bought this camera a few years ago to upgrade to a digital camera. It wasn't until recently that I've started using it. I've been using it for about a year now for many reasons. At first, I expiremented with the camera to see what type of...