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Should I Get A Sony Cyber-Shot W55?


Im looking to buy a new digital camera and the Sony Cyber-Shot W55 sounds really good. I know the picture quality is fine for what i want, all i really want to know is about the video quality. Say if i want to take a video and then upload it to youtube will the sound and video quality be good?

If anyone could link me too a video that is shot with the Sony Cyber-Shot W55 that would be great too.

Here is some information on the video-

* MPEG Movie VX Fine *: 640 x 480, 30fps

* MPEG Movie VX Standard *: 640 x 480, 16.6fps

* Presentation: No

* Video Mail: 160 x 112, 8.3fps

Thanks.

Memory cards are not an issue, nothing else is, i just want to know about the video quality.

I got a Sony Cyber-shot W55 for my trip to Hawaii last year. It takes GREAT pictures(to my standards) at 7.2MP.
It has some pretty good customers' reviews too. For under $200
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M4J...

Pros:
-Great pictures
-Fast loading
-2.5" LCD Screen
-Easy to use
-View Finder(if you wish to use it instead of the LCD)
-Different picture settings for different environments.(Like a beach setting, it brought out the beautiful blues of Waikiki Beach)
-MPEG video with audio
-Rechargeable battery with a good battery life(never had to charge it on a 5day vacation)
-The Legendary Carl Zeiss lens

Cons
-The people at Best Buy told me it came with an image stabilizer to take pictures of moving objects, but it doesn't. So if you plan on taking a lot of pictures of moving objects like a sporting events:biking, basketball, soccer, etc... or dancing and such forget about it.
-Cannot zoom in and out while filming video. You have to select the zoom before you start filming. Not to complain too much I mean its a digital camera not a digital camcorder. Other than that the video isn't bad.
-Most cameras use SD memory cards, but Sony uses Memory Stick for their products. Therefore SD cards can be used for multiple different camera (and other electronics) brands, while you pretty much can only use a Memory Stick for Sony's products(Cameras, Cell Phones, PDAs, PSP, PS3). But you still shouldn't have a problem taking the memory card out and taking them to get developed its just you wont have much use for the Memory Stick if you no longer use Sony's products.

I bought a 2GB SanDisk Memory Stick. I've been on vacation to Hawaii(taking pictures and videos), kickboxing (taking video several times), my sister has been on 2 weekend vacations(more pics), niece's birthday party(pics), and the cowboys packers game(pics) and STILL have room on it.

So all and all I love this camera my major complaint was no image stabilizer. Other than that a great buy in my opinion, you can can get the T70 model with an image stabilizer:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V5R...

If you want "movie" quality and the ablility to zoom in and out don't get this camera(you should look into get a digital camcorder then), but just uploading some home videos on youtube i think it works fine.

You can judge for yourself. Here are some videos I put on youtube straight from my Cyber Shot W55
http://youtube.com/user/cnote602

I just bought a Cyber Shot DSC-W90 and its pretty cool. They are similar.

it's a decent camera. so sure, go for it.

What camera do you have already? If it is a Sony, then all your memory cards will work with the W55

If you one another, with SD memory cards, you can forget any Sony unless you are willing to buy new cards.

Most digital cameras that offer 640x480, 30fps movie recording, produce video quality that is just fine for YouTube. You will need to compress each movie to YouTube's limit of 100MB or less (you can use MovieMaker).
A Memory Stick PRO Duo card is needed in order to record VX Fine Mode movies.

You can download a sample movie made with the W55 in the review link below (you can find it towards the bottom of the page)...

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/sony/d...

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