In the middle of 2005, my Olympus C-350 digital camera (reviewed here a long time ago) started forgetting the time, date and file numbers; plus it had a couple of irritating traits from the start.

I did a lot of net searching for a similar small digital camera to replace it, and finally found consistently good reviews of the Sony CyberShot DSC-S60. Sample pictures convinced me that this was the one to get.

All I can say is that the DSC-S60 has exceeded all my expectations. It's basically a point-'n-shoot camera, but with (only slightly limited) manual control capability for those who are interested in using it, like me. I've taken some stunning fireworks photo's with it. OK, so the macro mode won't let you get close enough to make a ladybug fill the frame, but it takes terrific close-up photo's of flowers! The bottom line is that it consistently takes very sharp, very natural, well-exposed photo's, which look fantastic when printed out by a photo lab, which has one of those Fuji Frontier photo printers. In fact I was so impressed by the Sony DSC-S60, that within 6 weeks I bought a Sony DSC-H1 camera for taking serious zoom and macro photo's with. The rest of the time I use the DSC-S60 which is always with me, and it produces photo's indistinguishable from those taken by the DSC-H1.

I love this camera and I'd recommend it to anyone.