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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
List Price: $399.99
Buy New: $299.97
You Save: $100.02 (25%)
New (11) Used (7) Refurbished (2) from $270.00
Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
System Memory: 15
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Monitor Size: 350
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 5
Digital Zoom: 2
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 3.5
Maximum Focal Length: 29
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Maximum Resolution: 10100000
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 6.6 x 2.2
MPN: DSCT300/B
Model: DSCT300/B
UPC: 027242726765
EAN: 0027242726765
ASIN: B0011E4N66
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 $$ you have to spend after you get the camera. August 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
1. You have to buy a smart battery $49. (Was included in previous models but no more!)
2. I bought a "compatible" smart battery and Sony locks it out so you can't use it even in its dumb mode. That is, you are forced to buy their battery. BTW there is case law on this topic Laxmark was barred from creating an incompatibilities so you are forced to buy their product (ink cart.), hope an attorney catches on to this and files a class action.
3. One of the selling points is you can view your images on and HDTV however they fail to tell you that you have to buy the cable, $39.99! What a rip off.
4. To get proper lighting in macro mode they sell you a $99.99 adapter. Just the fact that you can buy this as an accessory tells you they knew about this being an issue and could have designed it into the camera. Cannon designed it into theirs!
5. !!Heres a big one. Device does not power through USB!! All other devices I have run on USB power when you plug them in...NOT SONY. And guess what, they have a solution, you can buy a power adapter for $39.99
6. Another big one!! You can only take 20 pictures! If you want to take more, you must buy a PROPRIETARY PRo Dou memory stick. That stinks... how much? anywhere from $29.99 to $199.99 depending on the size you want. NOT INCLUDED
7. And they don't even include a $14 case with it, you have to buy it too!
BOTTOM LINE...your $400 camera winds up costing you more like $700. or more these are just the things I found out after having it only 1 hour.
Note from what I read in other reviews this issue is really pissing off a lot of other people too. I'm returning my camera and going to get a Cannon.
 Almost perfect...almost August 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is an excellent camera. It deserve a 5 stars but it only have 15M internal memory and T2 has 4G. It is a turn off... big one...
It Zooms While Video-ing!! August 13, 2008
I purchased the T300 after my T90 was stolen. I LOVE it. One of the features it has that similar cameras don't have (among many) is the ability to zoom while taking videos. It also has face/smile detection and some other really neat features. The amount of time from pushing the button to taking the picture is almost nothing - virtually no lag time.
The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because it is not as user-friendly as the other Sony T models - everything is through the touch screen and not on knobs on the outside of the camera, but I assume that's because there are so many features they had to do it that way.
I purchased an 8GB memory stick duo for a little over $[...] after rebate from big retail electronics store. I'll probably never need 8GBs, but just in case, and it was a great deal.
I will probably buy an extra battery in the near future. I haven't needed it yet, but from reading other reviews, and also so i won't be without picture-taking ability, it just makes sense.
Super sony cybershot ! August 2, 2008
I bought this camera to supplement my 3 year old Nikon Coolpix. The Nikon lens system is fantastic in daylight but I got poor indoor shots(? flash poor)with bright bluish subjects but blackened background).
I initially tried the
Olympus stylus 1010 10.1 Megapixel (about 250 US Dollars),
Olympus stylus 1030 10.1 megapixel (about 399 US Dolars)and
canon SD 1100 8 MPixel(about 250 US Dollars).
I actually bought and returned the 2 250 dollar cameras and later tried the more expensive olympus in Best buy. The sony T300($ 369)was far more superior, the Carl zeiss lens is really distortion free. On the olympus there was a lot of distortion at the edges with blurring . On the canon the outdoor shots were fine and the indoor shots loooked good on the camera screen but were very pixely(grainy)when viewed on the computer.
First of all the sony looks sexy ( I bought the red). I tried different settings and most work as predicted.Color representation is accurate. Macro auto feature is good. The smile maker, where it makes straightfaced subjects appear smiling was cool, the kids thought it was awesome. The sony does quite well indoors and there is a setting(easy) where you let the camera do the thinking which gave the best shots.I was doing indoor shots at dusk with very little natural light and candle light which turned out awesome.The touch screen is a cool feature and it works well(some early reviews said it was not sensitive and had to be presssed hard, I did not have that experience )although the menu asks you to confirm your choices way too many times. It however grows on you Overall good camera, cons are- no viewfinder, works only with sony produo memory. This is a review from an amateur (however intelligent) , the tech gurus dissed this camera on cnet and other sites,please see their reviews for more technical data as to why they did not like it. For most regular uses I think this camera will be more than adequate.
Awesome camera ! July 25, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bought this for $320 from resellerratings.com-->AbesOfMaine. I have previously owned a Sony DSC-T5 camera, and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately, I lost it and was forced to buy this one.
I would like to mention that lot of people (including CNET) have rated this awesome awesome camera bad because you have to press Ok button a little more than others. Frankly speaking, the guy at CNET probably doesnt own this camera, he just used it for 15 minutes and gave a "first impression". I own this camera and I just dont mind pressing the Ok button at all. It does not hurt the usability of the camera at all.
My opinion of this camera so far...
1. The smile and face detection are pretty awesome (although I was very skeptical about that before I bought it)
2. The "add a smile" feature is just for fun...although it added a perfect smile to my 6 month old daughters face in one of the pics. But in majority of the cases it does a sloppy job. But regardless, it is a fun feature to have when your friends are around.
3. The HD quality video....and 16:9 ratio...too cool! I sold my video camera and will now only use this all in one device.
4. The ability to touch up pictures, scribbling on the touch screen, adding icons here and there and lot of other effect are very cool to say the least.
5. Ability to view pictures by dates, very handy.
6. Although, outputting the HD content to a HDTV requires a special cable which Sony doesn't include. I think that kinda sucks.
7. The battery does show an icon indicating how much is left, although it doesnt show the exact minutes. I think it is a minor annoyance, because it gives me a very good indication of when I need to charge it.
8. Ability to Zoom while Video Recording....I love it. It is like having a camcorder in your hands.
9. The stability shot is pretty cool too, my hands are pretty shaky and I was really amazed that even in a night mode picture, my dog's pic came out perfect (Thing to note here is, my hands were shaking and u cannot tell a dog to hold still)
10. 1 thing I hate is that you have to buy the memory stick separately which is much expensive than an SD card which adds to the cost. Btw, Abesofmaine tried to fool me telling me that I need to upgrade to a high speed memory stick otherwise it will slow down my every picture to 5-6 seconds. What a joke...that cheap memory stick that I bought from them, allows me to take a shot in milliseconds.
Hope this helps. All in All, I like this camera a lot. And of course this is just a personal opinion. Although, I wished I had bought the black one..I bought silver for $3 less :(
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