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Sony introduces new 4.1 megapixel camera

updated 09:50 am EDT, Thu June 7, 2001

Sony today introduced its 4.1 megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-S85 digital camera.

The Cyber-shot camera offers a precision Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar zoom lens with a 3x optical and 6x precision digital zoom, a Digital eXtended Processor (DXP) 14 bit A/D converter, a 1.5" LCD, and a "built-in" memory stick for temporarily storing images as well as standard Memory Stick media slot. Due in August for $800, it will include a 16MB Memory Stick, an NP-FM50 InfoLithium battery (2.5 hrs), an AC adapter/charger, an A/V output and USB cables, and an application software/USB driver CD-ROM.

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Great... woo hoo...

Still no damned IBM microdrive support. Sony, get out of the RAM business!

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that link is broke

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Real Specs?

Are those REAL 4.1 Megapixels? Or are they interpolated? A 16MB memory stick is joke for images that size.

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like the stick

I like the stick but I would like to see cheaper and better storage. Those sticks are expensive!

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heh

with 16MB you could store what, 3, 4 images of that size?

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memory sticks..

personally, I like the sony memory sticks.. I bought my wife the cybershot P-1 . yes..they are a bit more expensive.. but they have proven to be more durable than the Flash Memory cards we use at work with our Olympus camera. AND.. I am hoping that sony makes them work with the PS2 eventually.. (but that is just a wish)

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Memory requirements

Depends on if you use JPEG or TIFF to store the images.
High Q JPEG takes about 400-500K bytes for a 2 megapixel image, so count on a megabyte for a 4 megapixel picture. TIFF would allow just about one image per 16 MB at that resolution, though. (I'm assuming Sony allows some control over the image format, as most digital camera makers do...)

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Sony-only

Betamax, Minidisc, Memory Stick. Sony has good products, but I don't see the need to introduce it's own formats. Beta was clearly superior to VHS, but I don't know that their minidisc or memory stick are enough different or better than their competitors to justify the expense. Then again, I'm no corporate or marketing genius.

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NOT TRUE 4.1 MEGAPIXELS

And Sony isn't ready to cope memory-wise with pictures of that size.

Get the Canon Camedia--it's the best 3megapixel camera out there, usability-wise and functionally.

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Review!

There's a review at http://www.steves-digicams.com/2001_reviews/s85.html.

The picture samples he has are ~1.6 meg.

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Quality vs. quantity.

I agree about format control. If I buy a 4.1 camera, its because I need the detail and quality. I'm not going to have the camera turn that into a lossy jpg. It goes to my computer with all the detail preserved and gets manipulated from their. So, 16mb is only good for shooting a couple things in my shop, then downloading, shoot 2 more things, then download.

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Canon Camedia

Olympus does the Camedias

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stupid

16 MB!? WTF is Sony thinking? That will be like 12 pics and that's it. Man, that is stupid.

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Re: stupid

The idea is that you buy a bigger Memory Stick. ;)

Sony marketing isn't stupid.

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just about Beta

VHS was a format created by Sony. Another Research team at Sony came up with Beta. Sony looked at the two, saw that Beta was better, and kept it. The sold VHS to another company. The other company promptly performed hardcore marketing and liscensing and made lots of money. Beta, slthough superior, was not marketed as well. Sony was trying to be sly, but it bit them instead. Anyway thats that histroy, so you can say that Sony's proprietary formats are out there... its just the ones that they thought were inferior.

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Resolution & file size

If you double the resolution, you quadruple the file size. My Nikon Coolpix 990 only came w/ 16 MB too and that meant an immediate purchase of a 64 MB card.

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speed?

Does anyone know if this is another high-res camera that takes about 5 minutes to shoot a picture after you press the button?

I hate cameras with lots of latency in taking a pciture, its just sucky unless your shooting still life.

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Sony sucks

Sony seem to be the most over hyped electronics company out there. We bought a Sony TV and video, what a load of ****. The worst part (apart from the poor reliability) is the ergonomics of the controls. the menus/ selection systems they use are totally unnatural and making using these products a labour.

Take their digi still cameras, half of them don't even have an optical viewfinder, try using an LCD in bright sunlight.....?? this makes them useless..

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New Mavica

Sony has developed a disruptive technology which makes the most sense. The technology consists of mini CD-R's and CD-RW's. Only 8cm (3 in) in size. Pretty much, they took the MiniDisc out of its protective casing. Each CD can store 156 MB, and costs $5 and $10 for the CD-R and CD-RW, respectively. Although these discs are larger than Memory Sticks, the cost is much much less. Comparatively, one can save over $200 on the same amount of storage. Besides the use for cameras, this could be used in future audio devices. Hmmm?

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No swivel? Forget it!

After 10,000 or so digital pix I have found having a swivel LCD to be an absolute necessity. About _half_ of those pix would not have been composable without the swivel feature. Digicams in the $700-$1500 price range lacking swivel IMO give very poor value, unless used soley for studio tripod work. But even in the studio the swivel lens can save time by obviating the need to climb up on a ladder to see the image on a "from above" shot.

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Sony introduces new 4.1 megapixel camera

updated 09:50 am EDT, Thu June 7, 2001

Great... woo hoo...

that link is broke

Real Specs?

like the stick

heh

memory sticks..

Memory requirements

Sony-only

NOT TRUE 4.1 MEGAPIXELS

Review!

Quality vs. quantity.

Canon Camedia

stupid

Re: stupid

just about Beta

Resolution & file size

speed?

Sony sucks

New Mavica

No swivel? Forget it!

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