Sony Cybershot DSCS40 Review

Posted on 2005-09-12 03:07:05 by LSDsmurf

This camera has a 4 megapixel CCD sensor and features a 3x optical zoom lens from Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar. It has a 1.5-inch LCD display and is equipped with 32MB internal storage memory. It's powered by AA batteries that can last up to more than 500 shots according to Sony.

Here's a short review from a happy user of this camera:

What a great little camera. Perfect for my needs. I take photos of jeans for my A1Jeans.com store. Also used it for some "before" photos of my daughter's new (and not so clean) apartment, in case we need them come time to get back her deposit.

The menu lettering is very tiny & my eyesight is not so great, so my only complaint is having a hard time reading menu options. But, I did figure out how to take super high-definition photos, and also great small-file photos that are great for emails or my internet photos. Still great definition for such small files.

Definitely does eat up the batteries. Even though I knew it did, because of the reviews here, I was still amazed at just how quickly they were used up.

Also, the camera's memory really is SUPER limited. If you don't get the memory stick, which I plan to do, you can expect to have it filled up only half-way through a kid's birthday party, if you even get that far, and if you're not close to a computer to download the photos, you're done. In taking photos of my daughter's apartment, I took them in high-definition & had to stop to download them to the computer probably 5 times. I'll definitely be buying a few memory sticks for any type of outing & buy batteries at Costco in bulk! But, with just about 1/2 hour of learning the basics of this camera, I can just click & shoot & get great photos. Gotta love Sony for a great product.

Oh, and the software that came with the camera is incredibly easy to use. I'm so impressed. Didn't need any time for "learning curve" with the software. Just flip a switch on the camera, attach the USB cable from the camera to a USB port on your computer, open up the software & click on the big button that says "automatically copy photos," and voilla! Then, the photos show up as a gallery & at the top of the screen there are a few simple icons....rotate right, left... The easiest photo software I've ever seen. Great for an amateur or someone who just doesn't want to deal with anything other than a quick download, rotate the photo & that's it. I'm used to just a quick touch-up job with Microsoft Paint, so just opened the photos up into the program I already knew for any touch-up.

Love it. Love it. Love it.



Link: Amazon

Sony Cybershot DSCS40




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