Sep 05, 2013 06:06 PM
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(Updated Sep 07, 2013 09:55 PM)
This ongoing trend has somehow got into me and that's what made me think of buying a camera. I have discovered and unknown passion for photography which was pointed out by few of my colleagues recently. Buying a DSLR would have been very difficult considering the budget as a constraint. So I thought to buy something which would fit my budget.
After doing some research I came across Sony cyber-shot series. Personally I liked the DSC 320 series which one of my friends owned and the look and feel too was great. It was easy to handle too, but my friend suggested me to buy dsc710 and then I myself researched on it reading few reviews from certified buyers on various sites.
Now I own one and till now the feeling is great and it's 16.1 Mp makes my photography even more amazing.
*Specifications:*
16.1 Megapixel Camera
5x Optical Zoom and 4x Digital Zoom
Full HD Recording
Li-ion Rechargeable Battery
2 year Sony India Warranty and Free Transit Insurance.
*Few distinguishable features I would comment on are-----------------*
It's got everything for the price it's being sold for.
The 360 degree sweep panorama which many of the cameras in this range don't have.
On zooming HD videos are clear too.
Excellent pics even on optical zooming it to 5x.
Good image sensor and depicts true color.
*Picture Quality**: As I mentioned earlier, it has good image sensor and gives true color and the overall quality acheived by this 16.1 Mp is awesome. I've acheived even more realness in the pictures and minute details are also visible. Even on zooming I find the pics arent distored nor blurred.
**Ease of Use***: It was not a difficult job to get hold of the device as I have already operated on DSC320 which too was very simple and transparent. So switching from dsc320 to dsc710 wasn't a big deal for me. Although operating dsc320 was a bit challenging to me as I haven't used any camera till now. Clicking images through cell phone are much simple.
*Battery life**: Once its being charged, it depends on how continuous the camera is being used. I charged the battery full, and the following day I almost used it for an entire day with 25% of the battery still left. Considering the fact that I used it entire day, every single time clicking pics and putting it on and off it did a descent job I feel. Not much idea about battery life of other cameras but I feel this much battery life was descent enough especially using the flash every single time.
*Value for Money:** Now comes the point which is important for every user so that he can make a proper decision and I would simply say go for it! In this price range hardly any cameras can compete with this one. In a price range of 5500-6000 this one would be the best I feel so and on applying coupon codes or using credit card this would be a perfect deal.
*A few cons:*
Battery takes at least 2 hours to get fully charged, a way too much time consuming.
No pause button during recording, but doesn't make much of a difference as I have purchased this for photography and not video recording but somehow someday I would need the pause functionality I suppose.
One more suggestion from my side would be that the build quality isn't good and could have been better if worked properly on it.
*Conclusion**: A stealer of a product in the range that it comes for, and go for it blindly.
One last suggestion to all you photographer, it's really a good deal to buy this if your budget is 6000/- or below that.
Will soon be uploading my collection of pics taken from this one.
Thanks for reading people.
