I wanted a camera that I could slip into my pocket and not feel as if it were there - the Sony 350 does. I would clear quality pictures to capture all the quality of the colors - Sony 350 does.
I have three great Canon digital cameras that cost thousands of dollars. They work well - but they will not fit in my pocket - and I tried a small but high quality camera. I spent a year talking to others who had large digital cameras, ask them if they owned a small pocket one - the overall response was a Cybershot. No matter which model they had, they were all very pleased with the Cybershot. The Cybershot has the lenses are made of a German engineering firm. No other pocket-size camera are of such quality.
So the question for me was the model, and it took four months debate. I am satisfied with the Sony DSC-W350, I would buy it again. Indeed, it has more features (image, video, etc.) than what I was looking for and I can never use the video function because I'm primarily a snapshot shooter.
I want to talk on camera below, but just want to say three quick things, if you decide to buy this camera. The first need 8 hours to charge the battery. The internal memory is very small - use the money for a larger size memory. I bought 8 GB - which I had bought the 16 GB as a journey is not always possible to download images to a laptop or computer. If you are good at figuring out electronics (or owned a digital camera before - the six page book, and your power is sufficient to launch straight into a turn). If you need more information - you need to load the disc to the full documentation. I went on a trip two days after the camera came up and could use it just fine without the full manual, but when I turned around I dug into the manual to find answers to all my many questions.
I would buy Cyber Shot through Costco (yes, between Costco and Amazon are up 96% of our household purchases - we also bought lawnmowers from Amazon). But by not having to pay VAT on Amazon, I could take this money and use them against an 8 GB memory.
This is not a big negative, but I will mention it. The digital standard (higher-quality cameras) can capture an image directly into the sun. There are times when you have no choice to move around - as a vessel or other enclosed spaces. The sun washes out any idea you have in the viewfinder with Sony 350th None of Cyber Shots can do this. And from my research, I learned not to any pocket cameras that could. Again, you can not have everything in one pocket-sized camera. It's not a big problem, but if you use to take pictures of the sun (if you own a higher quality camera), do not be disappointed when you can not with the Cyber-Shot.
With my big Canon cameras I very rarely use a flash in low light and because of the camera's ability to photos is fantastic. Sony 350 has the ability to take pictures of all the flash setting, and take high quality images with dim light. You can not have everything, but with a camera that can slip into your pocket. (Sony 350 has a quick button to click the flash on and off.)
When I go on tour (but age 63) I can still make the trip into an experience that I was in college. I also run full and half marathon. I wanted a camera that I could take with me when sometimes a bigger camera would not work. Sony arrived a day before I went to New York City Half Marathon. I bought the Sony 350 to carry with me in this contest. Yes, it is so small, it can fit in your fist. It was covered with sweat, but still took good pictures and had no problems later with sweat on the camera and the camera works well. The camera was passed around to other running in my group, so we are all part went in to enjoy the images of each other. I could not have done it with one of my bigger cameras.
I took Cybershot (along with a Canon) with me on a camping trip to Alaska in early spring - still below freezing with snow everywhere. I gave the Sony 350 to the other person, and they had so much fun to take pictures on their own. The other person has never owned a camera still took great pictures - it is the quality of this camera. We camped at the base camp of Mt. Mc Kinley (or Denali) and Sony have in the snow often - never bothered camera's ability to continue to function.
I leave the Sony 350 in my car, so it is easily accessible. It is so small that it can easily be stored in many places not visible to someone looking in the car. There have been many times over the many years I wish I had a camera with me to take pictures when I had not planned to do so. Oh, I have a camera on my cell, but the quality (as we all know) is limited. Sony 350 is small and takes the pictures I want.
I will always take the Sony 350 with me on trips with my bigger Canon cameras. I can keep the Sony 350 in your pocket all the time, and captured many candid pictures that I could have done with Canon, because everyone would know I was in the picture taking mood with a better camera. Sony is also very easy to use, and people will now say - let me take a picture of you. They will not do that with my larger cameras - they were too intimidated by the larger camera (full of buttons and switches on the Canon).
I would buy Cybershot again. My only regret is that I should have bought it a year earlier to have a lot to take in the fun by having a camera pocket.
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