Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W300 Review
Review Date: August 20th 2008
Author: Gavin Stoker
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Conclusion
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Ratings
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| Design | 4 |
| Features | 3.5 |
| Ease-of-Use | 4 |
| Image Quality | 4 |
| Value for Money | 4 |
As ever with Sony's Cyber-shot range, the DSC-W300 is as much about style as substance. The metal build quality suggests this is a camera that you'll still be using a few years down the line, a feeling backed up by that whopping 13+ megapixel resolution, plus its plentifully large and bright rear LCD (look back at a camera from four or five years ago when 1.5-inches was the norm and find a product looking positively prehistoric). Unfortunately though, while images appear fine when viewed in isolation, anyone who has handled a wide variety of digital compacts as us reviewers are privileged to do will discover that image quality is perhaps the least impressive aspect of the W300. That's a shame, as among its bridge cameras (I'm thinking of the H50) and DSLRs (Alpha 350 at the mid range) Sony has delivered some surprisingly impressive photographic models of late. All that being said, noise is handled very well and shots do require a minimal amount of post processing out of the camera, so in that respect the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W300 could be said to be ideally suited to its target market of the undemanding snapper who requires visual aide memoirs delivered with the minimum of fuss.
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