I preordered my camera in red and was a little disappointed in the saturation of the red because it's slightly pink. The color images online are pretty close so if you're not sure, go to a store and check it out first. I was only hoping that it would turn out to be a deeper red.

On a positive note, I love the ease of this camera. I especially love the scene+ option that automatically takes an extra picture with automatic adjustments during certain lighting conditions. This makes your picture a little more foolproof. The automatic programming is extremely smart and it can recognize the lighting conditions and make the appropriate adjustments. I've been pleased with my pictures so far just on automatic and I haven't had to make any adjustments yet, but there are a lot of extra features and programs to help you take great pictures in the snow, at the beach, etc. The second picture also manages to remove red eyes. I also have a Canon SD1100 IS which never manages to remove my dog's red eyes. I have to manually remove the red eye through its software, but it comes out distorted, scary, and not completely removed. This Sony T700 sucessfully takes a picture of my dog without red eyes.

On the downside, if you take a picture you like but have red eyes in the picture, the red eye removal function in the camera won't work because it is only set-up to remove red eyes in the faces of people and not animals. (The Canon lets you choose the red eye area for removal).

I love the slideshow that the Sony T700 can produce and you can even upload your own music onto your camera. You can also create scrapbook pages on the camera for a fun way to show-off you pictures.

The Sony T700's screen is sexy, but the downside of its large LCD touch screen is that it's draining on the battery and fingerprints will drive you up the wall. I haven't tested how long the battery can last continuously (the manual says something around 2+ hours), but I have had to recharge the battery with minimal use after about four days (versus my Canon in which the first time I charged it after minimal use was about 2 weeks). I'm considering buying an extra battery but haven't done it yet.

As for the fingerprints on the touch screen, I invested in an invisible shield to protect the screen. You can use the paintpen that comes with the camera to minimize fingerprints, but you can't avoid getting fingerprints on the Sony screen because you still have to handle the camera (unless you're very very careful which can be annoying). With the invisible screen you can rub the screen clean without worrying about scratching the screen and fingerprints aren't a problem with the invisible screen on. Just be careful about installing the shield and watch the videos online for tips on how to install it without having to retry it over and over. Make sure the screen is clean before installing otherwise little specs of dust might drive you crazy and you won't be able to clean it. The other thing with the invisible screen is that the company's website hasn't marketed a screen for the Sony T700, but if you buy the screen for the T300, it fits fine. With the invisible screen on, I don't have to worry about fingerprints or damaging my beautiful LCD touch screen. There are a lot of invisible screens out there, but I purchased the screen from the company that makes military grade invisible protection because they have a lifetime warranty and the product isn't sticky. Just make sure you purchase the screen directly from the manufacturer or from an authorized dealer otherwise the lifetime warranty will be invalid.

The 4GB built-in memory is great, but I bought a 4GB memory stick to use to make printing at a store easier. On the highest quality setting, it holds over 900 pictures and the number of pictures it holds for e-mail quaility is ridiculous (I think it's about 9999).

One other slight downside is that the digital zoom only reaches 8x whereas my Canon SD1100 IS reached 12x. A little disappointing, but not that big of a deal. The macro setting on the Sony T700 for close-ups on an object is amazing though. It captured the weaving in my 1000TC pillowcase exceptionally well when I was taking some test shots.

Overall, I love this camera. It's a bit pricey considering my $200+ camera from Canon is pretty good. I spent close to $600 buying this camera, accessories (camera case, memory stick, and invisible shield), and a 2 year accidental warranty for it. For the extra money, I got a lot of extra flashy things that gives it a wow factor. Other cameras can give you pictures just as good, but this camera is extremely easy to use and there are a lot of foolproof functions to help you take great pictures. I'm not a photographer so I don't understand how to adjust the EV and other things so with my Canon SD 1100 IS, I take decent pictures. But with all of the extra features in the Sony T700, its foolproof ease of use allows me to take exceptional pictures for the most part.

OK, so I have a Sony A100 DSLR that I really enjoy.. I took that to the MotoGp race last month and found that sometimes it's just better to have something small. After 3 day's of lugging that and 2 lenses around it got old quick, so I started shopping for a point and click.. I settled on this camera and I am glad I did, it has the same processor as the A100, it's 10.2 Mp just like my DSLR, but it's less than 6oz, it has 4G of internal memory, the LCD is larger and it's all metal, so it's perfect to just carry around all day..

I've been looking for a small compact camera for like about 4 months and I ran into this one by accident (it wasn't even out on the market yet). I was on CNet checking out reviews when I came across this review and I WAS SOLD. I preordered it and I even receeived it sooner that expected. I've had it for about 2 weeks and have no complains whatsoever. The camera itself has 4gb of internal memory and I can view my pictures on my 1070 HD TV and they all look amazing. It has so many features and you would definetely not expect that coming from a camera that size. This camera is absolutely fabulous, so I am very glad I invested in this little gadget.

I currently own a Pentax K10d DSLR and thought I wouldn't need a point and shoot. That is until my wife didn't want to lug around the Pentax. We've owned point and shoots in the past but my how far they've come. This one is so easy to use it's mind boggling. If you don't want to mess with settings it's as simple as point, shoot and be amazed. If you want to experiment you can do that as well with many options to choose from. Touch screen lcd that will amaze you. On top of that it has 4gb on board already, and it's a 10MP beauty! I simply can't give it high enough praise. Well done SONY!

PROS
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+ nice large sharp screen. perfect for showing off your photos

+ built in software to edit photos on the go

+ built in 4GB memory. can shoot photos without the memory stick

+ can zoom in and out while recording video!

+ 4x optical zoom

CONS
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- expensive. it is not worth $400!! i think the Sony T77 is a much better value

- thicker than i expected. i still like the older Sony T7

- built in stabilizer and high 3200 ISO dont mean anything in low light. a digital SLR is still much better than this camera

- 10Megapixel doesnt mean anything. photos look the same as my old Sony T7 5 megapixel.

- touchscreen is not finger friendly and NOT multitouch. a mini stylus is included. i mostly use my nails.

- video recording is not HD unlike the sony T500.

Summary: not worth the $400! im returning mine now.

Was looking for a smaller point and shoot to use in place of my Canon DSLR for the quick shots and this one looked to be a nice package. Offers some very nice features and the price was not all that bad either. But once I saw the picture quality I was not at all impressed. I tried several times with all types of settings and could never get a decent indoor shot with or without the flash. Pictures looked very washed out and grainey. Outdoor shots were much better but nothing all that great. I returned the camera to the store the next day and exchanged it for a Canon G10 and I'm very well pleased with it. Although both are in about the same price range the Sony can't even come close to matching the picture quality of the Canon.

I love this camera. I don't like viewfinder's so this camera is great because it's all display screen and mostly no buttons which I like. The 10.1 mexapixel while I don't necessary need it,I do still enjoy it because of all the detail in the picture I get without having to be that close. It comes with some great photo software that makes it easy for me to upload my pictures to my computer and view them immediately. And the software is also very useful in uploading them to the internet easily too. However I do kind of miss my last camera, canon powershot 770 but it had a few similarities like the display size and my new sony has some upgrades that makes it a little easier on the switch.

Overall i would say go for it! It's a pretty great camera and I'm sure you'll love it. I spent $399 on this camera and I think it was worth it. It has some great features and I don't really have any complaints as of yet.

I wanted to share my teen's experience with this camera. As a parent, I am always looking for worthy electronics for the kids.

I bought this for my 15-yr old daughter for her birthday. Her assessment--superior. She likes to take it to the skating rink and use it for her many myspace pictures.

It is user-friendly, light, and with a touch-screen that looks a lot like the ipod touch or iphone. There are a lot of "cool features" for editing your photos. The features include smile-detection, smile improvement (where the camera can actually sort of stretch the sides of the mouth, weird as that sounds), red-eye removal. There are also arty features such as choosing a center point and surrounding the periphery in monochrome, a starburst feature that adds flair to pics, a blurry edge feature, and much much more.

It comes with a rechargeable battery and a recharger. There is a built-in memory stick that allows for thousands of pictures. The only non-user-friendly feature my daughter came across was the flash. She said that it was counter-intuitive and that the manual did not help her to program it in. She did finally get a friend (who has had this camera for a while) to help her program the flash. My daughter is typically tech savvy, so this is notably a salient concern.

Thanks to a reviewer on this site, I have ordered a military-grade invisible shield to protect her screen. I highly recommend it--teens are hard on electronics.

Lastly,she asked for it in grey, which surprised me. I thought she would want one of the flashy colors, but she pointed out that the flashy colors also attract sticky fingers in public places. The muted colors draw less attention.

The price keeps going down. I bought it for $399 a few weeks ago and the price has gone down twice. Cheers to Amazon for reimbursing me the discount when I wrote to them.

This camera has a lot of great features, and all of them are really easy to use, the touchscreen is "sexy" and the pictures in it looks good, there are a lot of predefined scenes so the light conditions and the way the camera works can be ideal, the way it plugs to the pc is really easy, the memory is great so I already have like a thousand pictures and a lot of videos and I still have a lot of memory space. Everybody is always looking at the camera, telling me that the camera looks so good, that the pics are so great, etc, etc. Is not a cheap camera, but its worth it; I really recomend this camera as the best ultra slim point and shot you can get.

Great camera except for a tendency to obscure the lens with fingers of your left hand.

After spending a good 400$ on the camera, I thought it better be worth it, well it wasn't so bad, I actually have a Sony Cybershot camera which I bought last year, most of the technology is the same, except for a few changes, such as
Touch screen - Which of course consumes more battery
Smile shutter - Very amusing, If this is on, the cam just clicks away by itself whenever someone smiles to a particular smile level!
Battery Charger - compact as compared to the one I carry
various other features such as photo editing on the fly, internal memory, etc...

The camera is heavier than I expected, but it can easily be carried around. This can be a good investment for the look and shoot traveler, but if you are planning on shooting a little more professional photos I would always nod to the DSLR cams from Cannon

Amazing camera, cutedge technology, Fast and Good shipping and handling, amazing price, the best deal. Is a just released item and already has a $50.00 drop on price. Couldn't be better.

I just got this camera, and it's fantastic!! The touch screens on some of the older or less expensive Cybershot models go all funky-colored when you press on them, but this model's touch screen is much sturdier- no wavy color effects when you press on it. It also comes with a 4G memory, which equals about 1000 photos at the 10MP setting and over 1500 at the 5MP setting!!

My favorite feature is the way the battery charges. It's a little rectangular battery that you slide out of the camera and insert into a dock with a flip-out outlet plug. You don't have to plug the camera itself into anything, which is fantastic for a camera as slim as this! What makes this such a spectacular feature for me is that my last camera (a Casio Exilim) came with a dock that you set the entire camera in. After about a year and a half, the dock was damaged, making it impossible to either charge my camera or transfer photos to my computer. When I went to get a new dock, however, Casio no longer made any docks that were compatible with my camera, and the only place I could find a compatible dock was on eBay in Hong Kong for a price that was far above what the dock was worth. With this camera, I don't have to worry about the camera itself becoming unusable simply because one of its accessories is damaged.

Another feature I like is the focus. You can touch the screen wherever you want the camera to focus, rather than the camera automatically focusing on the middle of the shot.

And the image stabilization really does work! On the drive home from the store I took a picture out the window, and while the outside images were a bit fuzzy, the reflection on the window was perfectly in focus- while the vehicle was in motion! Most cameras would just get confused and make it all blurry. That really impressed me.

One of the other complaints about some of the previous touch-screen models is that one's right thumb would rest on the upper right side of the screen and accidentally keep hitting the buttons there. This camera has a bit of a buffer in the form of a ribbed strip of plastic about 1/4" wide, providing a place to rest your thumb off of the screen.

And gosh, this camera is just so stylish and sharp!! I love it!!

Has incredible features for small camera. Took a while to learn most of features but very easy to use (touch screen) Wife loves it. Thin, fits in handbag nicely. good zoom range, clear well exposed pictures

I am a camera buff always a Nikon or Canon, I saw the new Nikon S60 and thought it would make a great pocket camera, so went to my Local store to play with them.

The Nikon S60 is a nice camera but a bit of a awkward design, played with it on Macro for a few minutes and brought my own SD and MS to go home and check the photos out.

The macro was god on the Nikon but had a hard time to focus.Snapped some pics and wandered to the Sony area.

First let me say I have tons of large SD cars and wnt NOT to buy the Sony for that reason alone.

Popped in the memory stick and it did a quick focus and snapped the picture,
I left went home and reviewed the photos,the Sony had better color and the picture was clear and crisp.

A large picture can be found here [...]

I have been using it a bit now and if you look above I will post some amazing quick photos, I bought it here at Amazon for 335.00 in red and the pictures are really that good,the 4G internal memory is great, no sticks to buy!

I also have a Canon Rebel XS and my pictures are better on my Sony.

I owned a SONY DSC-T100, Sony's first generation of this style of ultra-compact digital camera. After a few iterations, I was hoping Sony has improved its picture quality. In some areas, the usability has improved dramatically.

Likes:
- Touch screen is very usable. You can even touch you subject on the screen to tell the camera to spot-focus on your subject.
- Smile detection is good under daylight.
- Optical Zoom and autofocus work in movie mode, which is a good deal-sealer for people who need a really useful movie mode.
- In-camera editing tools are quite user-friendly. Amazing usability
- 4GB internal memory is a big plus. I never find myself needing extra Memory Stick. I take all my pictures with 3:2 ratio (3MB+ per photo), the internal memory can contain approximately 996 pictures. That's enough for me. I usually download pictures to my PC every day.

Dislikes:
- Smile detection does not work well with indoor pictures because it disables Red-eye Reduction feature. This makes sense because red-eye reduction slows down the shot and may miss the smile.
- Battery life is very short. If you need to go for even a day trip, you certainly need an extra battery. So, this is the cost you need to consider before purchasing this camera.
- Indoor focus accuracy with flash is not great. I found this too be true with most ultra compact cameras, including Canon 1100. Even with successful face detection, the pictures often show out-of-focus subjects with clear background. This is true with my old Sony DSC-T100. It appears Sony has not resolved this issue after so many generations with Tx00 Series. So, be sure to take multiple shots with flash.
- White spots on some night shots. It's very unfortunate. The camera flash is too close to the lens. When the flash fires at a reflective dust in the air, you get white spots on people's hair or some empty space in your pictures. It really ruins a nice picture.
- High noise level in night shots (with flash or not)

Finally after 3 weeks of use, I returned the camera. No more ultra-compact cameras for us.

I hope this review helps potential buyers. Try shooting in all kind of lighting condition and see for yourself if noise levels are acceptable to you. High-pixel cameras produce relatively more noise.

Overall, in terms of picture quality, Sony has not improved it since DSC-T100.

This is the worst camera I have used in years. I use a Nikon D3, a Leica M8 and C-Lux 3 and have used Canon Point and Shoots for years - this is the worst camera I have seen for at least 3 years. The image quality is terrible - the colors are the worst, there are so many spots and noisy glitches in the images and focus is so soft I am shocked.

This camera sucks.

when i first opened the box,i was kind of a amazed how cool this camera was......i still can't figure out all the options it has,but that's just a matter of a time.....and thanks for the great camera

Bought at: Local Sony Style Store
Date: 12/20/08
Price: $329 (Holiday Special. Reg. $399)

I have owned the Sony DSC-P73 for many years. It has been an awesome camera and it still works. But I wanted a new one for mainly one reason.... a larger screen. I have been looking for a new camera for a few years. The Sony T2 & the T300 both have caught my eye. But I decided to wait until one camera had all I wanted. The T700 has all I want and then some.

The first thing you notice with this camera is its screen. It has a gigantic 3.5 in extra fine LCD touch screen with only 3 buttons located on the top (power, shutter and playback). This camera is sleek to say the least. Once on the screen is bright and can be viewed easily in daylight, without too much glare. For such a little camera it also packs a big zoom that is plenty for a point and shoot. While it took me a few hours to learn the interface design I now have it down packed and can maneuver easily though the settings. It has 4 GB of internal memory so you will always have room for that picture perfect shot. Plus it will take Memory Stick Duo if you do need any extra room. It will take wide-screen pictures (16:9) and will put out HD quality pictures with an additional cord. The Smile Shutter is pretty neat, automatically snapping the picture once everyone is smiling. Though I have found it to be a little slow if more than 3 people are in the picture. Now while the large screen is awesome it does have its draw back. The battery life is much shorter than my old Sony only averaging 8-10 hours of constant use. Luckily the battery will fully charge in 2.5-3 hours, but you may what to keep a spare on hand. Overall I could not be happier with this camera. It truly is Like No Other.

I had a old cybershot that I just loved and so when I learned we were going to Disney I thought it was time to upgrade. It is a nice looking camera. But it has some huge issues.
One being red eye. Despite all of its red eye prevention features. (blinking pre flashes etc) They just don't work. It gets real old fast having to fix all the eyes and if your daughter has pretty green eyes then they are black in the pictures because of the red eye fix.

Also as someone else said. White spots all over night pictures. We had pretty pictures in front of the castle at night and they were ruined by white spots all over.

I'm very sad I spent so much money. Sometimes a lot of money doesn't mean better quality.