Quick performance and dozens of features are great, but in the end cameras have to be judged on the pictures they take. Unfortunately, we found the T300 seriously lacking in that respect. Even at its best, photos generally look soft, with haloing along edges. At its lowest sensitivity, ISO 80, we still see noise in flat colours, like gray.
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It becomes noticeable across the board at ISO 200, and by ISO 400 starts degrading detail. At ISO 3,200 photos look like they were painted with a worn-out kitchen sponge. Finally, the camera's lens produced conspicuous vignetting -- darkening the corners of shots -- at its widest, and displayed distortion at both the wide and telephoto ends of the range.
Conclusion
While the Cyber-shot DSC-T300 offers a great design, loads of features, and fast performance, its pictures simply don't look match up to its predecessors or to competitors such as the
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Gaurav Choudhary 22 August 2008
Good: Look and slimness is good.
Bad: The most important thing - the picture that it takes
Comment: Hopeless camera. It is same like worst thing wrapped by different glitters so that bad things can be hidden. No feature is useful as what ever setting you do when you see picture, its hopless. Support was even worst, I really missed review of CNET. It very true that images comes out with noice and at ISO3200 you won't be able to judge what you have shot. Genuine advice ignore SONY as SLR are also not upto the mark. I am one of the victim of SONY you just ignore. If you see rating of SONY products they are detiriorating and SONY is trying to earn only on its Brand name.
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