Sony Cybershot DSCW150 8.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot (Silver)

I have owned several different Sony Cybershots, DSCW120, DSCW150, and DSCW170, this one (DSCW150) is the most awesome. They are all simple to use and take great pictures. The DSCW150 also has a few edit features on it, you can add a starburst effect to pictures, crop, remove red eye, etc... I also like the DSCW150 best because it has a dial to switch shooting modes. I don't really have anything bad to say about the cybershot DSCW150 .

This camera really likes upping the ISO for night time pics. Also, the image stabilization doesn't seem to work as well as my Canon a570is. The 5x zoom is nice. The picture quality is acceptable. One thing I did notice is that the camera compresses the images more for review - you can see JPEG artifacts and some loss of detail. Don't worry, they look fine once you get them off the camera.The color balance and saturation is different than Canon's. Everything looks less vibrant, but more realistic.I would suggest buying an extra battery. I got one for 15 including shipping on Ebay.Another con is the use of Memory Sticks, but when you think about it, you aren't going to be reusing a card from your camera for something else, so there's not really a big issue with it using a proprietary format other than the premium price. However, you can get cheap memory sticks online. I got my 4 gig for 11 at Deal Extreme.Another thing I didn't like is that it takes about 7 seconds to switch to picture review mode if you haven't gone to review mode since you last turned on your camera. Canons switch to review mode in about .5 seconds, so it's quite noticeable.One thing I was going to complain about was the USB mode, because it extends the lens, but I figured it out - when connected to USB, hit the "review" button instead of the power button, and it will not extend the lens.Overall, I got this camera for 135 shipped so any flaws it has are pretty excusable. Any comparable camera with the same features would be more expensive.

Works great, Have used this model before, so wanted to replace it.

didn't realize I was buying such an old model (2008 if I remember correctly)!! the memory card is not the usual one and you can't zoom while filming nor take pics while filming. I'm not impressed by the definition of its images either (true it was a used one that I bought, maybe new would be better). Anyways, if I could go back I would not buy this but something more modern and probably new

Drat! I should have paid more attention to the negative reviews! I own a DSC-W100 that takes very sharp photos. However, it is starting to act up, so I bought a DSC-W150 for a trip to Africa, mostly because of its longer zoom range (30-150 mm equivalent instead of 38-114 mm equivalent). It arrived only a couple of days before the trip, so I did an incomplete job of checking it out -- my fault, of course. On the trip, I was raving to my wife about how great it was and proudly showing off the great images on the LCD back at the hotel each night. But, when we got home and downloaded the images -- TERRIBLE. Soft, blurry images, even in bright outdoor conditions. At least half of my pix had to be culled, and many of the ones I've kept are awful, but I want them in the album for their subjects. Why Sony would let its quality go down, apparently a ubiquitous problem with way too many of their models after the W100, escapes me. It seems that they've bought into most Americans' fascination with lower price and smaller size and have done so at the expense of picture quality. Shame on you, Sony. I have so many of your batteries, rechargers, and memory sticks that I hate to change to another company -- probably Canon -- but I cannot be satisfied with these mushy, washed-out, low-contrast, low-saturation images -- even at 8 megapixels and with "vivid" color selected. I can only think about the great shots I had to cull.

The camera is perfect. It takes great pictures all on its own. There is no need for you to know about the aperture, focal length or lighting. The picture colors are amazingly accurate and vibrant. It was sent on time.

I bought this camera right before a recent month long vacation. It took great pictures and unexpectedly was able to capture things in unusual light I didn't think it would handle. However, I had several problems. I attempted to take several pictures of camouflaged critters, and the camera just couldn't focus. I tried multiple settings, but the lizards and bugs were not patient enough for me to work until I could find a setting that would focus in close up conditions on a hard to distinguish subject. I still haven't figured out how to get this to happen and the companion instruction book offered no help that I could find for this kind of thing. The other problem I had is that the camera seemed to occasionally lose its little mind. I would turn on the review function and start paging back through my pictures, and the camera would turn itself on and drop out of review mode. Sometimes no matter what I tried to do it would not allow me to review my pictures. This issue would clear up if I left the camera off for a few hours. Then sometimes I would have it on a setting on the dial and be taking pictures and the menu describing the dial settings would appear on screen and rotate through settings without me touching the setting dial. At times it would do this rapidly. To get it to stop I turned off the camera. When I turned it back on, this problem would mysteriously have resolved itself. But despite these weird behaviors I was happy with the pictures I captured, and if there were not the what looks like an onboard software problem, I could wholeheartedly recommend the camera.

This camera replaces my old one, and I love it. It is super easy to use and produces excellent photos. I had it withy in Bali and have wonderful pictures to remember my visit there. The distance shots are sharp and clear. Very glad I bought it.