Product description

Sony DSCT2B Digital Camera - Black (8.1MP, 3x Optical Zoom) 2.7" LCD 4GB Internal Memory

Price: £159.99
Average customer rating: 3.5

Binding : Electronics
EAN : 4905524470765
Label : Sony
Manufacturer : Sony
Publisher : Sony
Release date : 2007-11-15
Title : Sony DSCT2B Digital Camera - Black (8.1MP, 3x Optical Zoom) 2.7" LCD 4GB Internal Memory
Studio : Sony
Brand : Sony
Model : DSCT2B.CEH
MPN : DSCT2B.CEH
Package quantity : 1

Customer reviews

review by: parent of twins date: 2008-02-24 rating:

great little pocket marvel
I got my T2 on friday (2 days ago) and i love it.

style
it's smaller than I expected which is a good thing. On sunday I had a shirt on rather than a tshirt and I kept the camera in the shirt pocket all day. Consequently I took about 40 snaps I wouldn't ordinarily have done.
I can be carried in a pocket without looking strange! But I would recommend getting a small case either the sony soft case, tamrac neo 3 or crusher PP40 - I've opted for the sony because I'm sad! (don't forget to look at the other companied esp. those who make trendy phone cases - this camera is so small it will fit in those ones)
It is simple, minimalistic and strangely tactile; I can't help opening the shutter cover on it.
Personally I think it is pretty because it is simple, some people might prefer something a little more 'traditional' in looks.
I have the black edition, but I can see the other colours being attractive for people who like coloured IPODs! Add a trendy case like the crusher and it's a great fashion statement.

ease of use
its a fast start to shoot time and has very little shutter lag.
touch screen is easy to use but is worth spending an hour learning the menus and getting used to what the camera does. Don't bother with the manual, read the screen it tells you everything it does and try stuff out. In playing like this, I found it has useful features such as gridlines !!! I guess for those people who need help with horizontal and vertical framing and rule of thirds! - recommend you keep this turned off and be creative!!!
speed of multi-shot is much better than i expected. 3 frames go off as quick as saying `smile everyone'
Face recognition works fine, but like all cameras with this feature, works best with people posing for a shot rather than a random point and click. As such not really tried the smile detection yet as I tend to take more natural snaps of people rather than posed.
Interesting question to ponder - is it better to take a portrait using smile detection or multishoot? Sometimes you never quite know what you get when you use a multishoot or burst mode!
zoom/wide button is a little awkward and it looses marks because of this. This being my 7th sony camera its definitely the hardest to zoom - the buttons just don't fall under the thumb as you would expect. But this is relative and you get used to these things.
focus is great - the multipoint is the best on a sony I've seen. Don't get worried when you see all the focus blocks appearing as you start to press the shutter.

pic quality
takes great pics with everything set to auto.
Colours on outdoor snaps are fantastic
Indoors ones are ok, but all cameras tend to struggle in low light
flash is ok for most pics and the colour isn't too washed out with glare

playback
love the auto rotate feature - it just knows to turn the snaps around for me.
never been a lover of the scapbook they introduced on earlier models, but on this camera it is growing on me. With 4GB of internal ram you can't help but to use it
I prefer to copy snaps by moving the memory stick over to the laptop rather than use a lead connected to the camera, so I am considering adding a memory stick, however that seems like overkill in capacity! Maybe I'll just get used to the idea of using a lead!

features yet to try...
I am fascinated by the auto upload to web sites - will try that as it might make life easy to keep my mum updated about our twin boys.

summary
I don't think this camera is a 5; that also means no point and shoot should be given a 5 in my opinion. The reason being having used several DSLRs I can see the difference in quality of pictures between this style of camera and a DSLR.
But to put this into perspective, i think this is the best Sony point and shoot I've used. It is on a par with the T200 but smaller. Same spec as the T70 so I would choose this one instead. Not tried the T300 but then it has a better spec so expect a little more.

review by: Sony Fanatic date: 2007-12-04 rating:

Great Service not sure about the Product
Ordered my Sony DSCT2B December 2 and got it on December 4..Great!

I was a little surprised when I got my camera. I expected it to be a little bigger but it was too small..2.7 LCD Screen is still small..ill give again my full review of this product after two weeks..

Overall im pretty happy...

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