Sony CyberShot DSC-F707 Review

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Sony CyberShot DSC-F707
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Ottofocus.'s Review of Sony CyberShot DSC-F707

23rd Jan 2003

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
Good Points

Nightshot mode is very useful. The Zeiss lens holds up to the quality of it's historic ancestory. The correction for tungsten and other light modes is handy on the side of the lens. The self charging battery is by far the best of any digital camera I have come in contact with.


Bad Points

Physically it is like a coke can taped to a pack of 100mm cigarettes. It takes some play with it time to get used to it, but it's time well spent and there is no film cost to this learning process. The supplied 16mb memory stick is too small. As stated in other reviews you may as well buy the 128 stick when you buy the camera. Buy the ScanDisk stick, the Luxor won't work if you get a Dazzle to upload to your PC.


General Comments

I too, waited for months before I bought this camera. I used a friend and fellow photographers and was sold on it in minutes. I grew up in, and spent 25 years working in photo labs. I consider myself an excellent custom enlarger printer of color and B&W. I have several Nikons and a load of lenses, a Leica M4P, an old Rolliflex, a Plaubel with a 80mm Nikor lens. I printed negatives from many great local professional photographers and all varieties of cameras. I did work for the local museums. The point of all this palaver being, I have seen every level of quality positive and negative image. This camera equals any of the best things I have every done with conventional wet process films up to the 6x7cm format. Color corrections, if necessary, can easily be made in Photoshop or any of the other easy to use programs. Write your image to CD and have it printed on photo paper at the local mall and it is as good as anything I ever did in my professional career. I wish it was not so, but the technology is here and it is available at a very high level in this camera. Print it at home on copy paper and it still looks pretty good. Home printers and computer monitor color balances vary widely, so don't let comments about color throw you off. There are several additional filter features in this camera, sepia, solarization, negative imaging and the 20-minute mpg capability is very cool. All you need is imagination, a slight grasp of lighting and the eye for composition. This Sony 707 is a great tool and a super value for the money.

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