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10 out of 15 people found this review helpful
2.5 stars
"Super cool looking camera with dissapointing results"
Pros: Super fast start up and anti shake features !
Cons: Lack of features and very grainy prints
Summary: This is a great camera for the beginner who wants to impress his friends at a party. It starts up in a second and it takes great shots with super speed. The T-100 offers a lot of bells and whistles like 8.0 megapixel, super double steady shot, 3"LCD, a powerful flash, ISO up to 3200 and lots of other cool toys that take too long to mention. However after impressing everybody you can develop your prints and find out that the pictures are not so great. Prints from this camera are grainy, with a lot of noise and they lack color. Just like every other cybershot super fan , I sold my older model T-9 and upgraded to the T-100. What a mistake! Once I received the camera I took as many pictures as I could in every type of environment and even went as to compare its pictures to pictures taken with my old Canon S80. I was shocked with the results ! I compared the pictures side by side and found that the Canon S80 put the Sony T-100 to shame. The Canon pictures where very well focused with great color. As for the T-100 Sony pictures, they where lacking some color, sharpness and worst of all the pictures looked liked someone had blown sand on them "Grainy" .
So in conclusion I would not advise anyone to purchase this camera unless you dot plan to print pictures larger than a 4 X 6
As for myself, I have already returned the T-100 to Sony for a refund and I am back on the market searching for another t-9 or something that performs like it.
- 3 replies to this review
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Are you sure you are using it correctly?
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I am surprised at your negative comments on picture quality, and I believe that this may have been caused by not fully reading the handbook.
I own a T100 and a DSLR. I also have a good knowledge of digital photography. Your negative comments are contrary to my experience with this camera, and contrary to nearly all the published reviews of the T100.
Whilst the camera can be mildly criticized for pictures taken at high ISO settings of 1600 and 3200 in low light settings, a fact that I am sure anyone who has read any reviews will already be familiar, and a fact that is common to almost all compact digital cameras which give you the ability to record at these high ISO settings.
I believe that you may have altered the default setting whilst experimenting, and continued to take pictures, not knowing that this was the case. If you are in any doubt, the menu gives you the option to "initialize', which restores the camera to it's default settings.
I bought this camera based on dozens of reviews, on various web sites, with the majority of reviews ranging between 9 and 10. Usually, the less than favorable reviews were based on the very small number of cameras that were returned for a factory malfunction, which happens occasionally to all cameras, and appears in all reviews of all products.
It never ceases to amaze me that some reviewers expect all the features and picture quality of a professional DSLR, in the size and price range of an ultra compact. Yes, I repeat an ultra compact, because at this moment in time there is no such thing as an ultra compact that does everything that a professional DSLR can do, if there was then no one would be buying the DSLR's.
So if you are considering an ultra compact, get accustomed to this fact and choose the best of the bunch that are available, and the T100 ranks right up there, if not at the top of that list, then certainly very close. -
I have the same issue with cameras that are so automatic that they switch to ISO 3200 (low light etc.) and yes... that's super grainy. I think most cameras let you operate on a manual setting, so not as much depth of field in low light but higher saturation therefore better resolution.
I'm in the process of organizing three generations of photos (thousands), some vhs, lot's of super 8 and 16 mm and some HI-8. So far I have two great high end computers, networked, 2TB of storage and 2 different scanners, plus a stand alone slide copier... I just want camera that takes great pics, fits in a shirt pocket, and is rugged. Have you found one yet? I've thought about the Sony DSC-N2 and the Cannon PowerShot SD-1000.
Where to buy
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100 (silver):
$599.99
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