Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-R1 Digital Camera

Pros: Excellent lens with manual zooming and focus rings and dual memory card slots
Cons: More expensive than entry level dSLRs and top-mounted LCD screen is awkward and anti-intuitive

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Pros: 10.3 megapixels, Carl Zeiss lens, 3 fps burst mode, rotating LCD, great pics
Cons: Heavy, slow shutter speed, learning curve

I traded in my 3.3 megapixel Sony Cyber-Shot for this workhorse of a prosumer camera. The Sony Cyber-Shot R1 weighs in at an incredible 10.3 megapixels. This camera is extremely feature rich. Huge image sensor, 10.3 actual megapixel, live framing / ...

Pros: Incredible lens. Dual memory cards. Ease of use. Picture quality.
Cons: Heavy. No movie mode. No night shot. No laser-AF.

I've owned a series of Sony DSC cameras starting with the swivel-body DSC-F505. Every couple of years I've had the hankering for more pixels to be able to print larger and larger pictures. I skipped the F828 and played the waiting game, and the waiting ...

Pros: Excellent image quality, large sensor, little noise, USB2.0, features, intuitive metering, Wide angle/fast Zeiss lens!
Cons: Zoom range, raw size, heavy, no IS, EVF not for low light, Pricey prosumer.

This is a very good camera and, although pricey for a fixed lens digital, the extra large sensor - the biggest for any non-SLR D - provides little noise and artifacts in the image even at high ISO settings. The sensor and quality German lens (and fast ...

Pros: Awesome lens and wonderful pictures.
Cons: No laser focusing system from previous DSC-F series and no Remote wireless control.

The goal of this review is to provide a subjective view and user experience of what it is like to operate and use Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 in the real world. After all, a piece of equipment is only as good as how much you use it, which depends heavily on ...

Pros: 10 mega pixels and nothing else.
Cons: No night vision, no night framing, and no video capturing features.

Why such a strong negative assertion? I originally had Sony F707 and I was quite happy with it. See my review on it: - ht tp://www.epinions.com/content_ 53115588228 It had night vision, night framing and video ...

Pros: Great lens; quality build; very good manual controls; smooth operating and focusing zoom; nicely balanced.
Cons: Limited multiple frame shooting; no video function; slow focusing in dim light.

I've only had this camera two weeks and would normally wait to do a review. However there are no other reviews posted, so some preliminary comments may be helpful. The camera is heavy, over 2 lbs, but nicely balanced for two hand use. The Sony ...

Pros: Professional grade camera super white balance Excellent low light great lens great battery life
Cons: heavier then F717 Usb Linkage problem (reset fixed) no mpg movie mode

I've been doing photography since 1967 and have used many good and marginal cameras over the years. I was a high school photography and a photographer in the Navy and I do mainly event coverage, and on-site shoots. I do it full time now since I retired ...

Pros: Amazing Image Clarity, CMOS Sensor, Carl Zeiss Lens
Cons: A little pricy..

It was a funny store how I ended up becoming the owner of this camera. I don't really fancy cameras that much but my friend has always been talking about buying a good digital camera but neither of us know much about cameras except that the more ...

Pros: DSLR qualities (except for zoom), ergonomics.
Cons: Rickety plastic body.

The good qualities need not be repeated here, except for impressive ergonomics: the tons of buttons and dials so well placed, as well as functions so logically accessible make you quickly feel like second nature to manipulate this object with your fingers.

A big gripe though, is also about how it's built: the plastic body audibly groans in your grip! It's a crime that Sony goes so cheap with this otherwise awesome machine! Or is it just a sign of this age of micro life-span consumer electronics?

Overall, definitely a DSLR-grade point-and-shoot (except for the zoom, which is short as expected of fixed-lens).

Pros: pixels, lens
Cons: image stabilizer missing. zoom is too limited.

the camera is great, and it is nice that it offers different jpeg settings beyond the megapixel setting. It lacks tiff or some other lossless COMPRESSION. It does have the massive raw. pretty fast buffer if you are snapping a lot. Lacks an image stabilizer, which is extremely difficult for a user such as myself given the resolution. I consider that a major issue upon use. It is virtually impossible to avoid some sort of shaking, as can be evidenced by my attempts to take some shots at the local museum of oil paintings.