Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H1

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DAD THINKS I'M CHEEP !!

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5 Jan 8th, 2006  (Jun 13th, 2006)

59 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

Advantages:
In my opionion, the camera is Fool Proof

Disadvantages:
Makes people belive you are more of an expert than you are .

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

Picture Quality

Range & Quality of Features

Ease of Use

Durability

Value for Money

micheledog

micheledog

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SONY CYBER-SHOT DIGITAL STILL CAMERA
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Where do I begin?
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Perhaps with the reason for wanting this little baby would be the best place to start.

Reason 1
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My dad is getting married in June of this year,
and what must be either a natural eye for taking good pictures,
a good digital camera, also Sony cyber shot, or combined with dad being to tight to pay for a real photographer,
I was over the moon when dad asked me to take his wedding photos. Taking wedding photographs and having the right camera to produce good results is essential, and here I was really fortunate.

Reason 2
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As already stated I had what I considered to be a great camera, but wedding photos, especially my dads, it had to be special.,
I really haven't got much of a clue about cameras, but thought obviously the bigger the Ratio the better the picture quality
5.1 MEGA PIXELS
12.0x ZOOM.
This must be better than my 3 mega pixel.

Who Paid? where purchased? & how much?
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Well Luckily for me I'm spoilt, and it didn't take a lot of puppy dogs looks to MR DOG, to eventually take the hint.
I sat for what seamed like ages, staring at the Argos catalogue & comparing prices with my Kays catalogue, before MR DOG eventually took the hint!
But took it he did ! "PHEW !!!"
Kays catalogue were offering my Sony DSC-H1 at £459.99.
Argos were selling the exact item at £399.99.
So the answer here was simple, He bought my baby from Argos,
£399.99


To my disappointment
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cableservelimited., techstore and mediaatlantic are all offering these for a lower price of between
£305.76 & £321.39.
although I know my store and am happy that I have somewhere I trust to go back to if anything goes wrong.


MY SONY DSC-H1 CYBER-SHOT DIGITAL STILL CAMERA
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CRISTMAS DAY, I opened it's box,
But to my disappointment, it had no camera bag to protect my baby, whilst carrying it around, or am I being greedy for £399.99
It did come complete with 2 AA cyber shot NI-MH Rechargeable batteries & charger.
Stamina Battery Life is approx 290 shots by CIPA standard
These needed charging before I could proceed to explore my camera.
Any 2 AA batteries will tide you over in emergencies, so off I went.
I took it out of his box
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Inserted 2 AA batteries and away I went.

Point and Shoot,
But alas, my baby didn't come with a memory stick!
Oh god no!
What! £399.99 and no memory stick! Am I asking to much? Perhaps its me?
Never mind I had one, a 128MB Sony Magicgate, from my old camera.
I used this memory stick during new year at Butlins,
I took 76 photos,
some I took 0n 3mega pixels and some on 5mmega pixels

I did however discover that it has its own internal 32 MB memory.

i will have to invest in a 1GB Memory stick for the wedding, so that i can take some good quality pictures. on at last 5mega pixels.


Scene Selection Mode
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This is a dial situated at your left thumb and is easy to access.

Playback
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allows you to view your recently taken photos, on the large 2.5" colour LCD view screen located to the wrist area of your left hand.
Camera
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This mode is used to set your clock

Change you language settings
I.e. English • French • German, • Italian • Spanish • Portuguese • Dutch

Set your image size from 1 Mega pixel to 5 Mega pixel
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Allows you to shoot with exposure adjusted automatically
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Allows you to shoot after adjusting the shutter speed manually
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Allows you to shoot after adjusting the Aperture value manually.
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Allows you to shoot after adjusting the exposure manually.

Half moon
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Allows you to take photos in dark places, at a distance.

Half moon & person
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Allows you to take photos in dark places

Candle
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Allows you to take candlelit scenes With out spoiling the atmosphere.

Palm Tree
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Beach / lakeside photos without losing blue of water.

Sports symbol
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Shoots moving subjects in bright places.

Mountain.
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Shoots landscape etc by focusing on distant subjects

People
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Portrait photos.

Super Steady Shot
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Located just off you're right thumb, used to take photos of difficult subjects/
Zooming in on far subjects.

Macro button
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Used for shooting close up between 13" & 35" insects etc.
Located to the lower right thumb

Self timer button
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Located to the lower right thumb, giving you 10 seconds to run like any thing to get in the picture yourself.

Flash mode button
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Located to the lower right thumb, allowing no flash, forced flash or slow flash to clearly show the background.

Since my return from four days at Butlins, for the new year,
I can confirm I have some stunning photos,
After installing the CD that was supplied with my cyber shot, I have made moving photo DVD's complete with memory music for my dad and future step mam to view at their leisure.

One thing I like about this camera is the help you get, by easy to use features, as listed above, but as explained nicely in their handbook. I have only outlined them here but they are user friendly and produce good results.


CONCLUSION
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This camera saved the day. The photographs were stunning. It is a robust camera and compares well with the competition available at the same price, and I thoroughly recomment it if you are looking within this price range.

UPDATE
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Having just celebrated dad's wedding I can now announce I have a wounderful new step mum.
but enough about them and their fab day, I have come back to add how nervouse I was about having the responsibility of taking and printing their photographs,
I needn't have worried as you can see from the new pictures below it performed with spectacular results.


thanks again for reading

Michele

 

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Comments about this review »

jesi 06.07.2006 16:16

Looks good ~ I hope you learn how to turn photos 90 degrees though, my neck is stiff! (and I think the term for your title is "CHEAP" ? "Cheep" is what birds say!) ~~ love ya loads! ~ ~ .................................................................................................... ~ ♥ ~ jes ~ ♥♥

arnoldhenryrufus 04.07.2006 22:40

lovely photos - have a lovely holiday -lyn x

killiefan 22.06.2006 10:17

I have changed my rating as you seem to have updated. The pics are very good. Scott

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