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S$599
Product Summary
7.8
out of 10View score
The bad: Lens is slow and not very wide at F3.5 and 38mm.
The bottom line: Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-T10 delivers an attractive pocket camera with decent image quality, this time in multiple colors, too.
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Average User Rating
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5.6
out of 10CNET Asia Review
Years after the first Sony T-series hit the market, it's still impossible to deny the cool factor of these little, silver snapshot cameras. This time, Sony serves up the 7.2-megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-T10, which lands between the 6-megapixel DSC-T9 and the 7.2-megapixel DSC-T30 in the company's line. The DSC-T10 doesn't sport the fancy plexiglass back panel or the 3-inch LCD of the T30, but it's got most of that camera's other features and a nice looking 2.5-inch LCD of its own. To keep things interesting, Sony has offered a choice of four colors for the T10: Black, pink, silver, and white.
Design
Except for its 7.2-megapixel CCD sensor, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T10 is extremely similar to the DSC-T9. A full-body-width sliding lens cover turns the camera on and off, and the back panel layout is essentially identical, with most of the control buttons gathered to the right of the 2.5-inch, 230,000-pixel LCD. One nice touch is that, when the lens cover is in the down position, a small vertical ridge provides a perfect grip for your middle finger. A tiny button to the right of the shutter controls the camera's optical image stabilization, which Sony refers to as Super SteadyShot. We found that it'll get you between one and two stops of leeway when shooting at slower shutter speeds. For example, we were able to shoot steady, crisp images at 1/20 second with stabilization on, in situations that would normally require a shutter speed of 1/60 second to prevent blur.
Features
A handy selection of shooting modes covers most specialized situations, while program and full auto let you tweak--or not--settings such as white balance, metering, and focus modes. In addition to the normal autofocus modes, you can also set the camera to a range of fixed focus distances, which are based in meters rather than feet. Perhaps this is Sony's way to revive the Go Metric campaign that highlighted my grade school years.
Like its predecessors, the DSC-T10 has a 3x optical, 38mm-to-114mm-equivalent, F3.5-to-F4.3 Carl Zeiss lens. Many cameras now include wider angles of view, which can be useful in casual snapshooting when you may not have the room to back up, and some have wider maximum apertures, which help in low light. Perhaps the next T-series camera we see will include a wider setting. Nitpicking aside, the lens does a decent job with little, if any, blooming, and fringing appearing only in the brightest areas of the image.
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User Reviews
My last Sony, ever!
Nov 16, 2007Rating: 2 out of 10 (Terrible)
Pros: Small, stylish, battery life
Cons: Red eye, poor pic quality indoors or in low-light
Opinion:
A classic example of never judging a book by its cover. Beauty on the outside and basically that is it! Red eye should be included as a feature of this camera. Can't be avoided 90% of the time. Very poor pic quality indoors unless target is close/near. Also poor in low light. Not sharp and sort of water-colourish. Had a friend deciding between this and a similarly priced Lumix. Showed him my photos and let him take a few of his own. He went with the Lumix.
cute pocket camera, carry every time with u , size of mobile phone .
Sep 17, 2007Rating: 7 out of 10 (Very good)
Pros: good pic quality,
Cons: speed is not that good, when i can take multiple pic in my panasonic zoom camera, its not that high speed camera,
Opinion:
this camera is very good for the people who would like to carry it all the time, battery power is also good.
kesavan
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Totally Disappointing!!!
Mar 1, 2007Rating: 2 out of 10 (Terrible)
Pros: Small, stylish, user-friendly
Cons: Poor material, heavy
Opinion:
This expensive camera was given to me as a present and I spent much to get a Sony leather pouch, extra battery and memory stick to go along with it. However, within a month, small grey dots appeared on the slider. Those weren't scratches as they were underneath the top coating. Sony change it for free and they could not explain the cause. Then same problem happened again after 3 months. I was disappointed with the product and angry when Sony decides to charge me this time. They denied it is a material problem and accused me of mishandling. How can i misuse it when this same problem happened the next day after i used it to take some shots at home? I see this more of a material problem as the same problem can happen twice within 5 months. Hence I urge readers not to get this expensive Sony camera that Sony do not cover for external problems.
