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My Sony W70 is capable of taking great images and I’m very happy with the battery life too. It’s a tiny pocket rocket!
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I bought this camera for my daughter but I wished I had bought it for myself as it is a really nice camera. She was really happy with it as loves the Sony Cyber-shot cameras, this is her fourth one as unfortunately her others all got lost or stolen.
I had this camera for Christmas 2006 (£170 on-line from Pixmania) and so far have been very impressed, especially with the 7.2 Mega Pixels ! My last camera was 3.2 and boy can you tell the difference. Once you've read the instructions a couple of times and had a practise it becomes quite easy to use. Very good for low light settings with it's ISO 1000 top setting (Although some picture noise results). It has a 3x zoom lens equivalent to 38-114mm in 35mm terms. Not many manual controls as you would expect from a compact but it has many auto and scene functions (Snow, twilight, beach etc). The large 2.5" screen makes using the camera much easier and the optical viewfinder comes in useful when it's too bright to see the screen (Now quite rare on compacts) Only two things to moan about really, one it doesn't come with a case and two you have to connect the cable that comes with the camera to download pics to your PC, I'd prefer a normal USB cable. All in all very impressed, decent features and not too expensive, you can't go far wrong here. UPDATE : Camera developed a fault with the zoom button and I found to my horror that nowhere is interested in fixing even the smallest problem, Jessops wanted £175, that's £5 more than the camera cost and Sony want well over £100 up front with no guarantee of fixing it ! In the end I downloaded a manual and fixed it myself for £3. I don't think this is peculiar to Sony cameras but all compacts so beware !Read full review
This camera is worth the money. It has a small form factor and is quite thin, however not as thin as the Sony CyberShot "T" series but is thin for it's size. The camera's interface is simple to use and understand and it boasts 7.2 megapixels. The item comes boxed with all the standard accessories: manual, CD, lanyard, a battery charger, the battery, a PC/Video In USB connector cable, as well as the camera of course. The one thing that I don't like about the W70 but isn't affecting me too much is the battery. The standard battery life states that it can last for 300 shots which is sufficient, however I would still recommend to buy a spare battery along with a pouch/case for it as well as a large Memory Stick for your pictures. The camera has an internal memory of approximately 16MB but is obviously not enough. Overall, I still think that the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W70 is a definite buy and a great camera for all.Read full review
One of the few handy digital cameras to have a separate viewfinder rather than just the viewing screen & with multiple scene options including movie, a good macro facility & a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, the DSC-W70 is perfect for most types of photography. The only thing I found not so good is the short time lapse between pressing the shutter release & the shutter opening, making it not the best camera for freezing a very fast moving subject, especially as you rely on the camera's choice of shutter speed, but for an everyday pocket camera it is perfect. The ISO facility has enabled me to take decent shots in low light & brilliant macro close-ups. This camera is so good I now have two of them!