We have used this at our design firm for three years, and it has been flawless. Amazing pictures, great features, excellent usability in terms of downloading from the memory stick. The tilt feature is very useful for shooting low or when you have to shoot over the top of someone's head (great for those auto show pictures when that guy just won't move out of the way!)

I've used it at home as well with my Mac, and the downloading is just as simple. Just plug the USB cable in and there you go.

Recently we decided to get a "new" camera for home, and purchased one of the new sony digital cameras, the P71. It is rated at a much higher megapixel, but immediately I noticed the pictures were nowhere near as good as with the trusty f505. We took it back right away and came here to buy a used f505.

Don't be fooled by "megapixels", you can have a ton but if they are all shot through a tiny lens, the pictures just can't be that good. The size of the lens on the dsc-f505 is huge, and it really shows in the photos. An excellent camera.

As a former pro-photogrpher and now web/graphics developer, I had heard the usual negative comments about digital cameras. And I am, to say the least, a fanatic about quality. However, when I saw this camera (looks alone) I had to have it. The response from other digital camera owners is generally raised eyebrows. Other reviews here reflect those concerns: "It's a great camera, but no optical viewfinder?" Yes, I thought so myself at first. But consider the following: The lens rotates vertically 180 degrees on the camera body allowing the photographer to hold the camera directly overhead - or anywhere down below - yet still see the LCD pefectly. The advantage? Complete mastery of that universally dogging fact of photo-life, PERSPECTIVE - the single most important factor in any good photograph's composition. To my knowledge, the F505 is the very first hand-held camera in the history of photography to accomplish this. So whatever is lost by the lack of a viewfinder is compensated ten thousand times by this magnificent fact. Further, when I took my first photo (indoor with flash), my jaw dropped to the floor. I could read the cover notes on CD cases across the room. Color? Absolutely precise. Frankly, I had never seen anything quite like it. The new version - the F505v - adds the TIFF format for pros, which places this camera precisely at the pinnacle of its class. Drawbacks? There is a slightly noticeable lack of extremely tiny detail in certain type of outdoor images. And, as with all digital cameras, dynamic range could be improved. But all-in-all, the F505 is, in my view, the hands-down, all around winner.

This is the best camera out there with one of the highest image definition. The only little drawback is the lack of a view finder. Add a Sony PC where you can plug the 64M memory sticks directly and a Sony color printer, you won't think of using regular films again. As usual, we dreamt about it and Sony did it.

Just purchased the UK version of the 505V, it seems that this is a great advance on the 505 model. It has 3.3 megapixels and comes as standard with an 8Mb Memory Stick (saving up to 118 640 x 480 images). I have owned a Mavica camera for the past 2 years and felt that with advancing imaging technology now was the time to change - a decision which has been confirmed as being right by the increased quality of pictures I have achieved already (28 dots per inch on Mavica to 72 on 505V).

Sony have a great range of accessories specifically for the 505 and 505V models; including USB Memory Stick hubs and specially designed carry cases.

Whilst the camera quality is terrific, don't expect the same from the Sony Europe online ordering site - they lost my order for $350 worth of accessories and I had to re-order by telephone 4 days later.

Just can't wait for the UK weather to improve to take some more great shots.

I - or rather my wife - found this marvel on "Jala Raja" in Kuala Lumpur. After having held it in my hand I heard myself saying: "You will never get it back".

I have been using Kodak and Ricoh DCs before and there has always been something missing. Resolution, optical zoom, manual settings, light senstivity, a fast computer interface, cargeble batteries, expanadble memory. Yes, none of my prior DCs had it all. But this beauty has!

I use it for drawings, paper articles, documenting electric wiring, PC boards (the macro function is invaluable!), nature, grandchildren and night pictures. I could never do that before without the flash, but thanks to the "night enhancement" function I have taken som truly great pictures from our Charcoal Stack (a hoby activity) and they turned out great. Think of it, the object is charcoal black and a faint moon as the only light source!

The only thing that I miss is an interval timer so that I can take sequences of pictures over several hours. But then again, I had to think long before I could find something that I miss in this engineering marvel.