http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/sony-cyber-shot-dsc/4505-6501_7-34547260.html



I spent like 2hrs last night drooling over this thing. Obviously a real DSLR will be your best camera, but i also want something that can fit into my pocket and this is the one.


16x zoom
16x ultra-wide angle for panoramic photos (it tells you when/where to move for the next shot!!)
10fps burst mode
full HD movie mode
GPS tracker for exact location mapping of all your photos....

want!!!


it's $349.99. Saving up now.

6/21/2011 11:26:06 AM

save up?

what are you living off allowance?

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 11:29 AM. Reason : d]

6/21/2011 11:29:03 AM

good reviews regardless of only being 4 of them

http://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dschx9v

6/21/2011 11:30:34 AM

haha allowance

COME ON MOM I DID ALL MY CHORES

6/21/2011 11:31:57 AM

^^^by saving up i really mean put on credit card and pay for it later, sorry for the confusion


^^i read a ton of reviews on bestbuy.com and through CNET and the biggest complaint i heard was that there is a bit of a lag time between shots (unless you are using burst mode), but from what I saw other people say was the lag time is really only significant if you are a serious photographer/pro and used to an SLR camera that you can just mad-click the shutter for multiple photos. For me its not quite as necessary, and if needed ill just switch over to burst mode and problem solved.


Other complaint I saw was no viewfinder, but again, not really a big deal for me.


and for $350 you really cant ask for a better deal in quality/features for a digital camera

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM. Reason : ^]

6/21/2011 11:35:06 AM

I just use my phone, man. I mainly just take cock pics...not trying to be the next Ansel Adams.

6/21/2011 11:36:33 AM

i will preface this with making sure you understand this is just my humble opinion ...

i see no point at all in having a GPS unless you are a hiker or an explorer or soemthing

6/21/2011 11:37:02 AM

as a guy, i find that spending money on a digital camera is a waste of money. they are too big to fit in a pocket so you won't always have it with you and there is usually a girl around with a purse and a camera already. i bought one a few years back and used it maybe 3 times because i never had it on me.

finally i bought a cell phone with a quality camera and now take pictures of things all the time


this has been another rbrthwrd useful advice post

6/21/2011 11:37:48 AM

my phone doesn't take very good pics

6/21/2011 11:38:00 AM

you can use GPS to note the locations of cool pictures you take so other can find it also?

"o theres this cool civil war time grave we stumbled across going through pender county, if you wanna check it out here are the coordinates"

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM. Reason : f]

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM. Reason : civil wart]

6/21/2011 11:38:06 AM

bigfoot photographed exactly at

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 11:38 AM. Reason : also geotagging for flickr and whatnot so you can see what other shots happened there]

6/21/2011 11:38:12 AM

Quote :

"i see no point at all in having a GPS unless you are a hiker or an explorer or soemthing"

its a man thing you wouldnt understand

6/21/2011 11:39:01 AM

"penis picture taken in bathroom of Mcdonalds"

6/21/2011 11:39:38 AM

Fuck that camera.

6/21/2011 11:53:12 AM

Quote :

"i see no point at all in having a GPS unless you are a hiker or an explorer or soemthing"

or a map nerd like me

6/21/2011 12:05:46 PM

yall act like being a hiker is a profession, as if normal people dont hike or explore

6/21/2011 12:07:09 PM

lol i mean there are uses for it


but i just think that for me personally i could see it coming in handy in situations like BigHitSunday mentioned which almost never happens.....unless you hike a lot (which i covered in my op )

^ i rarely ever hike. and if i do its gonna be in umstead or some shit where i can take the pic and then tell people...oh its in umstead on this path ahaha

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 12:08 PM. Reason : sfdfds]

6/21/2011 12:07:41 PM

it happens quite a bit

especially in areas where there arent gridlines of roads and highways, lol

6/21/2011 12:08:28 PM

i grew up in the sticks of harnett county and never found cool stuff that i couldn't explain where it was and needed a gps.....

does that make sense?

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM. Reason : like i said...its just me ]

6/21/2011 12:09:19 PM

fuck harnett county!

6/21/2011 12:09:38 PM

6/21/2011 12:09:49 PM

Then buy it

6/21/2011 12:10:22 PM

hes gotta put it on layaway first

6/21/2011 12:10:48 PM

even if you can place something in a map, its nice not having to do it multiple times. gps stamps automate that so you can post your adventure on a map. you don't need to be hiking to enjoy that feature, i use it for vacations with road trips (cell phone does it).

6/21/2011 12:10:50 PM

is that so you personally can go to it again?


also vacations and road trips-its fun to get lost!!! ive found some of the coolest spots because we put the gps up




but i can see where ya'll are coming from.


[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM. Reason : however i still think its a useless application for me anyway. ]

6/21/2011 12:11:56 PM

not necessarily so you can go to it again, but so you can see the bread crumb path with pictures as a record of your adventure

6/21/2011 12:15:43 PM

thats pretty cool.
i can dig it

6/21/2011 12:19:45 PM

joie is the question and answer gal

god bless her for it

6/21/2011 12:20:23 PM

one time while at one of cody's work buddy's apartment he looked at cody and asked "is she always like this? i dont think i'v ever met someone who asks so many questions"

6/21/2011 12:22:41 PM

theyre good questions

the kinda questions that make you think about what you just said and why. keep it up

6/21/2011 12:23:41 PM

Quote :

"as a guy, i find that spending money on a digital camera is a waste of money. they are too big to fit in a pocket so you won't always have it with you and there is usually a girl around with a purse and a camera already. i bought one a few years back and used it maybe 3 times because i never had it on me. finally i bought a cell phone with a quality camera and now take pictures of things all the time"

this. i mean i take my DSLR with me when i know there are shots i want to get but i just cant justify carrying around a little point&shoot everywhere when a cellphone can do a decent enough job on its own

6/21/2011 12:23:58 PM

Unless there are some really bitchin' cell phone cameras out there that I'm not aware of, the difference is really noticeable to me, especially if the camera in quesion has some manual control available. I keep my Canon S70 in the car pretty much at all times, and if I think anything photo-worthy will be happening it comes with me. And that's kind of a bulky bastard. If I had something smaller that didn't basically take up an entire pocket (really want an S95 but can't justify spending the money at the moment), it would be easier yet.

6/21/2011 12:51:36 PM

Quote :

"i see no point at all in having a GPS unless you are a hiker or an explorer or soemthing"

which is why this comes with me on every backpacking trip



at least, backpacking is the initial reason i got it, but it is very cool to have all of your photos geotagged so you can see on a map exactly where you took the pictures...and the reason it now comes with me everywhere i go...i also really like seeing a map of everywhere we walked/drove

it was very nice to have on my honeymoon in switzerland and italy because there's no way i'd remember exactly where every picture was taken

Quote :

"i mean i take my DSLR with me when i know there are shots i want to get but i just cant justify carrying around a little point&shoot everywhere when a cellphone can do a decent enough job on its own"

i refuse to take my DSLR with me on backpacking trips...it's crazy heavy and the chance of breaking it is significantly higher than everywhere that's NOT backpacking...there's not a consumer-available cell phone out there that takes pictures worth a crap compared to a decent P&S

[Edited on June 21, 2011 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

6/21/2011 1:34:33 PM