Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2 review

As all those gigs of onboard memory indicate, Sony geared up the T2 for photo sharing and storage. Towards that end, the T2 provides a host of ways of dealing with pictures post-shoot: Albums, Favorites, Sharemark and Scrapbook. You physically organise the photo files into Albums, tag Favorites for retrieval and tag with Sharemarks for automatic resizing and uploading.

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T20

1.3

1.3

1.2

0.4

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200

1.4

1.7

1.2

0.4

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2

1.4

2

1.2

0.4

Canon Digital IXUS 960 IS

2

1.3

1.2

0.5

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100

2.3

2.4

1.1

0.6

We simply couldn't get Sharemark to work -- in theory, it runs a copy of Picture Motion Browser that's stored in the internal memory, but it gave us a lovely, cryptic error -- and since it's a Windows-only application, it won't run on a Mac. But we only made a cursory attempt.

For playback, in addition to the traditional index thumbnails and slide show, there's a neat calendar view and predefined Scrapbook slide-show templates into which it dumps your photos. The latter simply doesn't make sense on the T2's relatively small LCD -- you see mostly template graphics, while your photos are teeny. To display it on your TV, though, requires all those extra purchases. Finally, you can also 'paint' on photos using the bundled stylus.