Sony DSC-W330 14.1MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Zoom with Digital Steady Shot Image Stabilization and 3.0 inch LCD (Red)

I’m absolutely obsessed with this camera! A friend brought it on vacation and got the most amazing pictures, so I immediately purchased it when I got home. The sellers are super helpful and friendly. I highly recommend this product!

Worked fine on one X-C ski venture in GSMNP and at Xmas eve at my son's in GA. It then worked fine on several indoor shots in my home. On 12/29 hike in the GSMNP it seemed to work fine for ~6 shots; then I started having problems. These included fact that camera was not communicating with 4-GB card and that camera internal memory was full. (Doubt if I can ever retrieve those 6 shots for their intended use.) Then camera flat out did not work. Procedures rec'd after calling Sony's help-line 12/30 were not valid; was told to send it in. (Because I am making a presentation at Wilderness Wildlife Week in Pigeon Forge TN on 1/10/11; I had planned to add to my hiking in ice and snow pictures, and X-C skiing ones, in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, I am literally screwed.My prior Sony cyber-shot developed a shutter problem after 1-2 yrs of use; although the one prior to that worked and still is, I now would not recommend Sony to anyone. (I liked to open up pictures on my computer with Windows Explorer; loading Sony's PMB software made that so difficult with this Sony purchase of less than one month that I wondered if it related to the DSC W330's dysfunction.

I went by the ratings and also word of mouth before buying this camera and I actually bought 2 cameras... one Panasonic Lumix 12 MP and this Sony 14.1 MP. Upon first site, the Panasonic appears to be built better. The buttons were larger and the camera was a little heavier. I thought, for sure, I'd keep the Panasonic. Well, after trying both of them simultaneously the Sony took better pictures. The Sony has a Carl Zeiss lense which is a very good lense. Of course, all cameras have brightness adjustments, etc, but the Sony knew when to let more light in when there was not enough light (great for dim light pics). I'm sure the Panasonic could do the same if you want to keep adjusting the lighting, but I want a camera that is going to take great pics with pointing and shooting and this camera does just that. The reason the imaging takes longer to see clearly on the LCD when you go back to view pics, I would assume, is because it is a 14.1 Mega Pixel (a lot of information) at a great price so it takes a 1/4 sec to focus the pic in clearly! I don't mind it. I'd rather have great pics when transporting them onto a computer, viewing them on the computer or TV or printing them. Also, when you go into a photo editor, the clarity is scary. You can see every little detail. If you want to spend another $30 there's also the Sony W350, which will allow for viewing high def videos on your high def TV, but I viewed a video I took with the W330 and the clarity is still great.

Actually I never even used the thing. Here in Kandahar, there are precisely 1 billion TCNs. If you're not familiar with the term, TCN stands for third country national. They aren't from NATO or ISAF nations, and aren't citizens of the host nation. Anyway, I digress..Whomever told the TCNs about Amazon deserves a swift karate chop in the throat because these dudes will come up to you day and night asking you to order stuff. It will be weird stuff that will have no apparent effect on their quality of life back home, but they MUST have the stuff for whatever reason. That said, it isn't easy telling the poor buggers no, so I end up spending a small truckload of money on this site each month.This camera is a prime example. The dude we're talking about in this case comes from a place where, I imagine, indoor plumbing probably doesn't exist yet, electricity may or may not be present, and his 25 kids most likely don't wear shoes.Who needs any of that when you've got a sweet new camera?? Now you can take photos of all the poverty and squalor and upload them to your favorite social networking site! Yay! Assuming first, of course, you hit somebody else up to order you a laptop, then you bothered another 4 guys for all the accessories, peripherals, carrying cases, etc. Once all those bases are covered, and you find a dialup connection somewhere in the village, you'll be living the TCN dream.I really would've liked to try this camera out, but at the end of the month when I see my credit card bill, I can't bring myself to spend money on the things I want. That's about the end of my rant I suppose. If you ever meet a TCN, thank him for keeping the US Postal Service alive, and ask if you can see his s***ty pictures. You get 10 extra points if he's wearing a US Polo Assn watch also ordered from Amazon. Out.

I ordered this camera to replace my old digital camera and I was super excited for this camera to come. It arrived early than it was expected to and when it comes to the quality of the photos they’re great! I highly recommend the sony cyber-shot. However when I went to swap the memory card that came with the camera with the one I already had it wouldn’t connect. I tried a second memory card incase the issue wasn’t the camera and that one also didn’t connect. Everything else about the camera functions normally, but the camera isn’t able to take photos unless I use the specific 4gb memory card that the camera came with. If the memory card wasn’t an issue this camera would’ve deserved 5 stars.