Product Description

Successor to the T30, the new DSC-T50 is a top-end model of the T-series range, with integrated Super SteadyShot Double Anti-blur Solution. Featuring a high resolution of 7 megapixels, sensitivity of ISO 1000 and a 3x optical zoom. Like the T30, the DSC-T

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46505 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: DSCT50S.CEH
• Released on: 2006-09-18
• Dimensions: 1.68 pounds
• Display size: 3

Manufacturer's Description
Take your best shot with the super-slim Cyber-shot® DSC-T50. Powerful, yet small enough to carry in your pocket, this ultra-compact 7.2 megapixel camera is doubly effective at reducing blur. Share your photos as slide shows set to music with family and friends on the huge 3.01 Clear Photo LCD Plus screen. Featuring Super SteadyShot® Optical Image Stabilization and high ISO sensitivity, the DSC-T50 captures beautiful shots without a flash where a flash is not permitted or might disrupt the mood. The DSC-T50 also comes equipped with a precision Carl Zeiss® 3X Optical/2X Digital zoom lens and 56 MB internal memory for capturing images without a flash memory card.

High-Tech, Super-Slim Styling;The DSC-T50 comes in an ultra-compact case that expresses your personal style in a choice of three designer colors, matte silver, sleek black or blazing red. It's also small enough to stay close at hand anywhere you roam.

7.2 MP Super HAD" CCD;Another step up in megapixel performance gives you greater detail for making large prints or cropping in tightly on your subject. With the advanced Sony Super HAD" (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design, more light passes to each pixel for increased sensitivity and reduced noise.

Huge 3.01 Clear Photo LCD Plus" Screen;It's an amazingly big screen for such a small, slim-line camera --styled to fit flush against the camera back for a clean-line look, with bright Clear Photo LCD Plus" design and touch-screen operation that make it easier to adjust camera menus, set up shots and share results even in bright sunlight.

Slide Show with Select Music Playback 2;The DSC-T50 lets you view in-camera images in Slide Show sequence, with one-button operation, selectable transition effects and up to four music background tracks that make it more entertaining to share your memories with family and friends. You can even use supplied Picture Package Music Transfer software to add your own favorite music.

Super SteadyShot® Optical Image Stabilization;The Sony Super SteadyShot® system detects camera movement and sends correcting signals to a stabilization lens to prevent image blur and reduce the effect of camera shake an advantage when shooting with such a small camera.

Higher Sensitivity;Because flash can sometimes change the mood, the DSC-T50 provides high sensitivity (ISO 1000) for excellent low-light shots at higher shutter speed and for capturing images in museums or religious sites where flash may not be permitted. The Sony Clear RAW" Noise Reduction system also counters the picture noise traditionally associated with high ISO.

Carl Zeiss®3X Optical/2X Precision Digital Zoom;With 56 MB Internal Memory, the DSC-T50 allows you to shoot photos without a flash memory card so you can always get your shot even if you forgot your card. You can easily transfer your images from camera memory to optional Memory Stick Duo" media, upload shots to your computer or make prints on your digital printer.

Stamina® Power;A supplied NP-FR1 InfoLithium® rechargeable battery lets you shoot up to 400 pictures3 on a full charge, recharges quickly and easily, and shows you about how much shooting time remains.

14X Smart Zoom® Feature3 (at VGA Resolution);The Cyber-shot®DSC-T50 intelligently crops into the central portion of interest in your photo without sacrificing full CCD resolution avoiding the image degradation of other digital zooms.

Real Imaging Processor" LSI;To improve camera response and extend battery life, the Sony Real Imaging Processor LSI (Large Scale Integrated) circuit decreases shutter lag, improves picture quality and clarity, and increases battery stamina.

MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode;The DSC-T50 can capture VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second5), with length limited only by the capacity of your media.

Picture Motion Browser;Software Supplied software makes it easier to upload, organize and search photos on your PC, and provides a convenient map view function to sort photos by location and display their origin on a world map by using an optional GPS unit.

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Customer Reviews

Top of the range compact
Having had an Olympus MJU-300 for 4 years, I was looking to replace it with a top of the range compact camera that was lightweight yet had all the features I wanted. There is a lot of choice with Sony, Olympus, Canon and Casio all making stunning and full featured compacts that have been getting good reviews. I decided on the Sony purely on reputation and comments I read about previous models in the T range. The listed price on the Sony website is £350, so when I saw it going for £215 on Amazon and being the top-of-the-range in the T series, I decided to place my order.

The first thing you notice is the weight which at 130g (without the battery) its lighter than some mobile phones! This camera looks amazing, it is truely the Ferrari of compacts. Secondly, the screen is one of the biggest and best I have seen on a compact and it is also a touch screen which means a lot less clutter on the back of the camera with only 2 buttons. Before buying this camera I was sceptical whether the touch screen would be as effective as having proper buttons but I can say after using if for a week that it performs very responsively and its extremely intuative. The slideshow feature is another great feature and you can upload your own MP3s to play alongside the pictures.

Picture quality is also very good thanks to the Carl Zeiss lens which is the same one as featured in the W range but is hidden away when the lens cover is closed. Outdoor daylight shots were very sharp and the marco mode worked really well for close ups. I take a lot of pictures in clubs where light is minimal so I decided to try it out. The flash worked really well keeping the subject in focus while still keeping the surrounding details and clarity.

The movie mode is also great but you can only capture about 15mins on a 1Gb card at the highest resolution (640 x 480 fine). The quality was very good when output on an LCD TV using the supplied video out cable.

Now for the negatives. Well you should invest in a good quality leather case as scrathes would not be welcome on something that looks this good.
Also the touch screen does attract finger prints quite easily so should be cleaned often. Otherwise this camera in a must have!

Here are my scores out of 10:

Looks: 10
Image Quality: 9
Movies: 8
Battery Life: 9
Overall: 9

A super little camera
I ordered this camera from Amazon just before Christmas. I resisted from using it straight away as I put the battery in the charger provided for 24 hours, I was always told to do this with new re-chargable batteries to make the battery work better and last longer.

When I finally got to play with it I realised what a super choice of camera I had made, it's a real plug and play camera. The HUGE 3 inch screen is great (and everyone is always very impressed, and to be honest always think it's more expensive than it actually is with such a good price on Amazon).

It takes memory stick DUO, not the traditional memory stick, so when you buy (min 1GB if I was you) remember to buy the DUO type!! Expensive compared to SD, but I found really cheap ones from digital perspective (i think)and got a sony high speed (worth the extra and amazingly fast) 1 GB for £17ish. Less than a second between taking one photo can you take the next, well I personally think this is fast anyway.

The camera is slim for a digital camera, 1.5 - 2 cms I'd say and the size of the screen is brilliant (the two main factors for me purchasing this camera), and very useful when viewing the pics - it even has fancy modes you can choose for seeing pics too in slideshow mode with a choice of music, choice of effects, changable volume and there's also a 'paint' mode where you can write on the pics (with plastic pointer included) in different colours, and add pre-set images such as stars, tear drops, hearts, cat paws, music notes in different colours to the pics. You can then choose to save the painted on pic to memory and it'll be saved beside the other pic (not instead of which one person thought would happen).

My mother had never used a digital camera before she used this one. She found it a bit hard that there was no view-finder at the beginning but soon got used to the screen. She also didn't like it that the screen was constantly moving at first, as with all digital camera screens, but again soon got used to it. By the end of the week she was taking my camera and enjoying taking photos (this sounds like a bizzare thing to say but we are a family who normally hate having photos taken and taking them, but now we are getting used to it thanks to this camera, the joy of deleting rough pictures makes all more open to having photos taken and the small size means it's totally handbag-able).

The anti-shake thing is good, I haven't had any 'shakey' photos in the month I have had it and taking moving pics is better than you will have ever had before with really no blurring, it's so clever.
I have had a few disappointing pics, ones that have been blurry but this was the fault of the person taking the pic. On the camera you push the button down half way and then a green light comes oo indicating it's focused and to press the rest of the way down to take the photo, my father pushed the button the whole way down in one swift movement and a blurry pic was the result of this. The half-way pushing of the button only takes less than a sec to focus.

On flash mode, there's an orange light indicating to the person IN the photo when it'll be taken, and on the timer mode the flashing of the orange light increaces as the timer goes down and when it stops you know the pic is going to be taken. 2 or 10 sec timer (2 secs is too short, but the 10 gives enough time for the person taking it to get in the pic and settle down).

What else, the movie mode makes the pics lighter than in the photo mode, but is great quality still.

Red eyes was a problem for me even with the red-eye reduction on, but just edited them on photo editing software, I think it's because I have very blue eyes.

Oh, the touch panel on the screen. Suitable for fat and skinny fingers it's easy as pie to work, only thing is it gets a bit greasy, I'm going to buy a protector for it, one of the silicone ones that you add to stop scratches (it's not scratched, but would be upset if it did get damaged) for peace of mind and would make it easy to wipe clean.

It does not come with a case, stupidly, so buy one, you don't want this camera to get ruined.

The battery is super - 270 pics and still had battery left, but the charger isn't huge so you cn bring it with you on hols.

Great quality pics so long as you take them properly; clear, crisp, good colours, flash easilty turned on and off, auto-focus brill...

I would recommend this camera to anyone, the touchscreen is a really special feature and this camera has the wow factor in all of my friends opinions, and definately in mine.

SUPER CAMERA!!!

Hope this helps,

Helen x

One novice photographer to another
This is my second digital camera, replacing my Samsung Digimax 401 (It was time for a bigger LCD screen).

This is a big step in quality. Not only in picture, but also in ease of use. The touch screen (its really cool!) and minimal buttons make it very simple to operate (yes, really!). I seem to be getting on very well with the PC software too.

Mainly I have left the camera on Automatic mode because it seems to be a much better photographer than me. Since my last camera I seem to of turned into a half decent photographer - lots of excellent picture frame quality shots - even in testing light conditions.

The 3 inch screen is great for showing pictures amongst your friends and family. I like the slide show with effects and music.

I put in a 2GB memory card that can take nearly 580 shots at full resolution or 90 mins of reasonable quality video. The battery life is very good (my last camera was an AA battery muncher).

Overall, very happy!