Customer Rating: 
Summary: good pics, small, simple
Comment: I got this as a gift for my wife and she loves it. She was using a Fuji Finepix but wanted better quality and more options; this delivers as well as being more portable with the option of adding lenses for those special shots.
Sony cameras do work best if you take the time to learn how to use them. The Auto functions can be a bit grainy sometimes, but if you learn the camera, learn what the settings are for, you'll be very happy with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I wanted a 'pocket camera' and got a good one.
Comment: I shoot, as a matter of course, heavy DSLRs and wanted a small camera to carry at all times for those unexpected opportunities and the Sony dsc-H3 fills the bill.
With the eight meg resolution and the 10X optical zoom ( 38mm to 380mm effective range ) this camera more than fills the bill.
The images are sharp and have that wonderful 'Sony Color' plus the IS and face recognition....wow. The wide range of 100 to 3200 ISO, the on board strobe has a greater range that I have seen on other small cameras and it handles very well. Three friends have looked and handled my H3 and went out and bought their own. How much of a review is that ?!?
I am a very pleased purchaser,
D Cox
Customer Rating:
Summary: Camera is so so
Comment: I purchased this camera in December of 2007 and was excited to receive it after rave reviews from various digital camera websites. In the past I have owned Olympus and Canon (Elph Series) Digital Cameras and the only reason I decided to purchase this was for the bang for my buck...a 10x optical zoom digital camera for under 300...I thought it wasn't so bad. After owning it for over 4 months, I came to my conclusion that I wish I don't own a Sony digital camera again:
1. I noticed with Sony camera's that the quality of pictures are not as crisp compared to my previous Canon and Olympus' pictures. It's as if you are constantly taking pictures with a high ISO Setting (ok, maybe i'm over exagerating) If you take a picture and zoom in a bit you can see a fuzzy pixelation and some detail of your subject is gone. I believe it has to do with the sensor on the camera, since this occurs with other Sony digital cameras that are NOT SLRs.
2. The camera has a pop up flash. When the settings on the camera are set to use automatic flash or if you set it to flash when you take the picture, the flash usually opens. In this case, after four months it doesn't do it at all anymore. The flash is broken. It works if I manually dig your nail in-between the crevice of the flash and the camera body to pop the thing up but I dont think that was Sony's intention for us to use the flash feature. Also, I read on several other digital camera websites that this same feature would break for them as well. Poor quality production I guess?
Overall it's a great "looking" camera and has great 10x optical zoom but in the long run I don't think the price would suffice with the worries you have to go through when wanting to take a good picture. I think after this experience I DID regret not getting my Canon G9!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sony 8MP 10x zoom camera
Comment: I received camera as open Item. I expected it as brand new, unopened item. Someone might have returned this camera or it might be refurbished item.
You could have sold it as an open item instead of selling it as NEW.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flash doesn't work. Very messy camera
Comment: I'm so disappointed! I loved my old cybershot,but not this one. My first day: the flash worked as I was experimenting but just when I went to shoot a *real* picture, the flash stopped working. I wrote to Amazon and made an exchange through the mail. The second camera arrived, and the flash was working, again. But now it arrived without the extra lens hood that originally came with it. Amazon wanted me to return the whole product to get that extra hood, but I needed the camera for the holidays, so never got the extra hood.
Then, after a month of use (and after the Amazon return window expired- starting from the date of ORIG purchase, not the date of the exchange), the flash stopped working again. I've found if I fiddle with the camera long enough, by changing modes, sometimes the flash works. Otherwise, I'm at the mercy of luck if I need a well-lit picture.
Also, the lens cap - not fun to remove & keep track of. Why not just an autolens cover, like the old ones? It's just such a bulky, uncomfortable camera...
Finally, the quality is just ok, not as sharp as I recall my early model being for it's era.
I'm so upset by this purchase and long for the ease and quality of that old Cybershot.
Summary: good pics, small, simple
Comment: I got this as a gift for my wife and she loves it. She was using a Fuji Finepix but wanted better quality and more options; this delivers as well as being more portable with the option of adding lenses for those special shots.
Sony cameras do work best if you take the time to learn how to use them. The Auto functions can be a bit grainy sometimes, but if you learn the camera, learn what the settings are for, you'll be very happy with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I wanted a 'pocket camera' and got a good one.
Comment: I shoot, as a matter of course, heavy DSLRs and wanted a small camera to carry at all times for those unexpected opportunities and the Sony dsc-H3 fills the bill.
With the eight meg resolution and the 10X optical zoom ( 38mm to 380mm effective range ) this camera more than fills the bill.
The images are sharp and have that wonderful 'Sony Color' plus the IS and face recognition....wow. The wide range of 100 to 3200 ISO, the on board strobe has a greater range that I have seen on other small cameras and it handles very well. Three friends have looked and handled my H3 and went out and bought their own. How much of a review is that ?!?
I am a very pleased purchaser,
D Cox
Customer Rating:
Summary: Camera is so so
Comment: I purchased this camera in December of 2007 and was excited to receive it after rave reviews from various digital camera websites. In the past I have owned Olympus and Canon (Elph Series) Digital Cameras and the only reason I decided to purchase this was for the bang for my buck...a 10x optical zoom digital camera for under 300...I thought it wasn't so bad. After owning it for over 4 months, I came to my conclusion that I wish I don't own a Sony digital camera again:
1. I noticed with Sony camera's that the quality of pictures are not as crisp compared to my previous Canon and Olympus' pictures. It's as if you are constantly taking pictures with a high ISO Setting (ok, maybe i'm over exagerating) If you take a picture and zoom in a bit you can see a fuzzy pixelation and some detail of your subject is gone. I believe it has to do with the sensor on the camera, since this occurs with other Sony digital cameras that are NOT SLRs.
2. The camera has a pop up flash. When the settings on the camera are set to use automatic flash or if you set it to flash when you take the picture, the flash usually opens. In this case, after four months it doesn't do it at all anymore. The flash is broken. It works if I manually dig your nail in-between the crevice of the flash and the camera body to pop the thing up but I dont think that was Sony's intention for us to use the flash feature. Also, I read on several other digital camera websites that this same feature would break for them as well. Poor quality production I guess?
Overall it's a great "looking" camera and has great 10x optical zoom but in the long run I don't think the price would suffice with the worries you have to go through when wanting to take a good picture. I think after this experience I DID regret not getting my Canon G9!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sony 8MP 10x zoom camera
Comment: I received camera as open Item. I expected it as brand new, unopened item. Someone might have returned this camera or it might be refurbished item.
You could have sold it as an open item instead of selling it as NEW.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flash doesn't work. Very messy camera
Comment: I'm so disappointed! I loved my old cybershot,but not this one. My first day: the flash worked as I was experimenting but just when I went to shoot a *real* picture, the flash stopped working. I wrote to Amazon and made an exchange through the mail. The second camera arrived, and the flash was working, again. But now it arrived without the extra lens hood that originally came with it. Amazon wanted me to return the whole product to get that extra hood, but I needed the camera for the holidays, so never got the extra hood.
Then, after a month of use (and after the Amazon return window expired- starting from the date of ORIG purchase, not the date of the exchange), the flash stopped working again. I've found if I fiddle with the camera long enough, by changing modes, sometimes the flash works. Otherwise, I'm at the mercy of luck if I need a well-lit picture.
Also, the lens cap - not fun to remove & keep track of. Why not just an autolens cover, like the old ones? It's just such a bulky, uncomfortable camera...
Finally, the quality is just ok, not as sharp as I recall my early model being for it's era.
I'm so upset by this purchase and long for the ease and quality of that old Cybershot.
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