Sony Cyber-SHOT DSC-W830

Excellent camera for the price. Small and light and easy to pop in your pocket. Takes good pictures and is not complicated if used on automatic settings but there are many options to play with if you want.

Brilliant I own an older version and this is an update. It performs the same but with so much more. ie video. Also easier to delete photos you can delete single shot. I mistakenly deleted all on my last camera recommend as light and easy to carry in handbag or pocket

For the money its an ok camera. Bought for snapshots so was not expecting high end quality. Its easy to use after a few clicks, only thing is SD card is max 32GB but enough to snap away.

First I thought it was a damaged battery, so I bought a new one but the same happened. The charger seems to work to get the the thing started as lon as it stays connected to the charger, but the battery charging light does not come up. Still I left it on the charger for 4 hrs, nothing. Has somebody an idea what else I can do. I tried to charge with the USB port to a computer, again no charging light comes up and no charging takes place. After contacting the seller I managed to get it going, so thank you and alteration to 5stars

Takes 20mp pics and you can reduce the quality level if you wish. Pic quality seems nice and bright in daylight and "reasonable" without flash in low light. Colours are good and not washed out. There are some 'fun' effects you can apply (I wondered 'whats the point?') but its a chore getting to their menu and then applying them. Loved the Panorama feature - so easy to use and results are great. Zoom is 8x optical and gives good pics but you do need a steady hand. There is an option to go digital up to 32x but the results at that magnification are not very good even on a tripod - lots of distortion on the edges. Flash has limited range of about 10ft so best used indoors or as fill-in flash for already reasonably lit evening shots outdoors. Movie quality is not quite HD - its 720 - but for a budget priced camera the 16:9 movies DO look OK at that resolution. Sound, surprisingly is quite good and is mono. In Intelligent Auto mode its so easy to use - just focus and shoot. In Easy mode, it's supposed to be even easier. Cant see how or why it could be and pics using Easy looked just as OK on a high res monitor as those using IA. You can use also use specific 'scene' modes if you're, say, on the beach in very bright light or perhaps like in low light somewhere, and so on. You will need to buy a memory card as the internal memory is only good for about 14 shots. A couple of annoyances, but remember first how inexpensive the camera is - Takes an age to start up compared to more expensive cameras. After each shot, camera locks for over a second, maybe two, before you can take another. That is very Slow by modern standards. "Burst" group shot speed is only 1fps which is hardly "burst". Useless tor Sporting incident photography for instance. The focus/shoot button is large but is flush to the top of the camera which is not helpful when it is also quite sensitive and can therefore fire before focussing or framing up is complete. For the money its quite good enough for point and shooting and general snapping. Any kind of serious photographer would get fed up pretty quick but then again he wouldn't have bought it in the first place.

Great simple camera

While I still haven't used it to it's full potential, this camera is pretty nice and takes great, clear pictures. And it arrived rather quickly. I would recommend this camera to beginners like myself.

Bon appareil photo numérique, très compact, zoom efficace

Un obiettivo di qualità professionale in una fotocamera piccolissima ad un prezzo conveniente. In posizione grandangolo la risoluzione è insuperabile, anche il microscopico sensore fa miracoli. Lo zoom 8x è sufficiente nel 99% dei casi, specialmente grazie alla qualità che permette anche ingrandimenti parziali. Tutti i modelli che, a parità di dimensioni, ne vantano uno più potente, in realtà riducono la superficie utile del sensore, con conseguente scadimento della qualità dell'immagine. Unico neo i filmati, che sono in HD e non in Full HD. Anche se poi al momento della visione è difficile distinguere un video HD da uno Full HD.

The camera came with a memory card, a rechargeable battery and a plug-plug-in where you can charge the battery. The camera is so cute, I love it so much. Best purchase ever.

1. Looks and feels like a toy 2. Picture quality is not as good as that from my phone