Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-S40 Digital Camera
- Digital Zoom: 2x
- Camera Type: Standard Point and Shoot
- Weight: 0.3 lb.
- LCD Screen Size: 1.5 in.
- Resolution: 4.1 Megapixel
- Optical Zoom: 3x
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Buy a Canon instead
Pros
Lightweight, small, 4.1mp
Cons
Snapshots are often blurry - camera does not focus quick enough. Not great photos ingeneral.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Buy a Canon instead. Sony has terrible shutter-lag, so many snapshots come out blurry; also the colors and exposure are not as good as my old Canon.
No, I am not in any way affiliated with Canon, it's just that I have owned both and the Canon is a far better camera.
I bought the Sony only because I have an old Canon (A40) which is relatively heavy and bulky by today's standards and I wanted something I could more easily stick in my pocket.
After much research I came up with the Sony DSC-40.
The main problems with the Sony are:
1) it does not focus and snap the shot quick enough, so that you have to have the camera completely still when you shoot, even with flash, or you'll get blurry photos. The Canon does not have this problem. With the Canon you always get an in-focus shot with flash unless you really move the camera a lot at the moment of shooting.
2) Related to the above problem is that the Sony does not shoot quickly. Once you press the button, you have to wait up to 3-5 seconds for the shot to fire, sometimes. This is particularly a problem when you are trying to shoot candid shots, like at a party. With the Canon, I would just point and shoot, BOOM! the shot was fired off and in focus!
I have had these problems above even with brand new Energizer alkaline batteries. In fact, last night I thought it was the batteries that were dead, so I put in new ones. But of course, the problem continued. And when I came home and tested them, the batteries I had changed out were perfectly good.
Now, on the plus side:
the camera is very easy to carry;
it does take pretty good photos, as long as you have time to hold the camera very still and stand there and wait while it gathers the energy to snap the shot;
it uploads the photos very quickly to the computer;
it seems to be made sturdily enough;
All I know is, the next camera I buy will be a Canon. I was very impressed with the quality of the photos it took. When you consider that it was only a 2mp and this Canon is a 4.1mp, the Canon still takes much better photos. The Canon has more natural color, has better flash exposure, and overall the pictures the Canon takes have a better "look" to them.
Again, I am comparing the Sony to an old A40 Canon, so I cannot say for sure the new Canons are as good as the old ones. However, I did ask a man in a store which camera he thought was best (it was a store in which they don't get commissions) and he said that HIS next purchase would be the Canon.
So there you have it.
I bought the Sony only because I have an old Canon (A40) which is relatively heavy and bulky by today's standards and I wanted something I could more easily stick in my pocket.
After much research I came up with the Sony DSC-40.
The main problems with the Sony are:
1) it does not focus and snap the shot quick enough, so that you have to have the camera completely still when you shoot, even with flash, or you'll get blurry photos. The Canon does not have this problem. With the Canon you always get an in-focus shot with flash unless you really move the camera a lot at the moment of shooting.
2) Related to the above problem is that the Sony does not shoot quickly. Once you press the button, you have to wait up to 3-5 seconds for the shot to fire, sometimes. This is particularly a problem when you are trying to shoot candid shots, like at a party. With the Canon, I would just point and shoot, BOOM! the shot was fired off and in focus!
I have had these problems above even with brand new Energizer alkaline batteries. In fact, last night I thought it was the batteries that were dead, so I put in new ones. But of course, the problem continued. And when I came home and tested them, the batteries I had changed out were perfectly good.
Now, on the plus side:
the camera is very easy to carry;
it does take pretty good photos, as long as you have time to hold the camera very still and stand there and wait while it gathers the energy to snap the shot;
it uploads the photos very quickly to the computer;
it seems to be made sturdily enough;
All I know is, the next camera I buy will be a Canon. I was very impressed with the quality of the photos it took. When you consider that it was only a 2mp and this Canon is a 4.1mp, the Canon still takes much better photos. The Canon has more natural color, has better flash exposure, and overall the pictures the Canon takes have a better "look" to them.
Again, I am comparing the Sony to an old A40 Canon, so I cannot say for sure the new Canons are as good as the old ones. However, I did ask a man in a store which camera he thought was best (it was a store in which they don't get commissions) and he said that HIS next purchase would be the Canon.
So there you have it.
