I am about to buy a Sony cyber-shot DSC-S500 digital Still Camera?

6 mega-pixels,3x optical, 2x digital zoom. Just love keeping up with family moments anyone have this camera and recommends it? I dont know what it means by still camera? I do hear many people recommend sony in general. Thanks for your help!

Still means that it takes plain pictures "in which everyone is still"...(joke), it is not a camcorder, but it does a bit of mpeg recording at great expense of the memory stick.
The dsc-s500 is a good beginners choice, it is running about $150, it is fast, good color balance, decent flash and it works with any AA battery in a crunch (vacation without your charger, I've been there) I use the Nikon d100 for wedding and such but I always carry my DSC w7 which I upgraded from the DSC w1, which m syster enjoys now.
The W7 runs about $300 but it is worth every cent.
Enjoy!

you should get it, its perfit the only thing i didnt like was the card choice but everything else was great

A "Still" camera just means that it is not a video camera, but the DSC S500 actually does have a small movie mode.

Otherwise, I know nothing about this camera and I hope that someone who does will answer you.

awesome camera

I recommend looking for this kind of information on products on review Web sites, such as:

http://www.consumersearch.com/index.html
http://www.epinions.com/

Specifically, here is the Digital Camera section on ConsumerSearch:

http://www.consumersearch.com/www/photo_...

...and here are reviews of that camera by people who own it on Epinions:

http://www.epinions.com/Sony_Cyber_Shot_...

i suggest canon A540 or A530 is much much more better than s500 in this price range

A still camera is a device used to take photographs. Traditional cameras capture light onto photographic film. Digital cameras use electronics, usually a charge coupled device (CCD) to store digital images in computer memory inside the camera, which can be transferred to a computer for later processing.