October 16th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

I’ve been pretty happy with my cam­eras, a Nikon D50 and a Sony DSC-T7, but the new Sony DSC-T200 com­bines the best qual­i­ties of both a “thing of beauty” and a “joy forever.” 8.1 megapix­els, 5x opti­cal zoom as well as lens-​based image-​stabilization. And it’s so pretty!

Thank good­ness I’m broke or I’d really be in trouble!

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5 Responses to “Must resist beautiful camera”

  1. Your self-​discipline is almost admirable.

    I failed to resist the pur­chase of a Garmin Street Pilot c340 (link: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&pID=290)
    I bought it for myself for Christ­mas. It should arrive tomor­row.

    I used to think I had a pretty good sense of direc­tion. But living in an area with­out straight roads, few roads that run north-​south or east-​west, where street signs are rare, and where there are no street­lights I find myself often get­ting llost. A friend has one of these GPS units (a c320) and has demon­strated it for me. I am going to love it. I got it at two thirds of the retail price, a very good deal.

    Moral: Resis­tance is futile.

    — skank October 17th, 2007 at 7:39 am #

  2. Yeah, some of the point and shoots are get­ting pretty tempt­ing. I’ve been think­ing about pick­ing up one just to have a camera I can carry around in my pocket for times that I don’t have the D70 with me.

    For­tu­nately, I am broke as well. =P

    — jerry October 17th, 2007 at 8:08 am #

  3. @skank: Yeah, Kellie got me a Garmin last Xmas, and I got her a TomTom (that has stopped work­ing) for our anniver­sary. Great for road trips and find­ing the fastest way home from the mall. Even the high­ways aren’t straight out here.

    @jerry: I think there’s a place in the arse­nal for a whole range of cam­eras - my only prob­lem with point-​and-​shoots is that the bat­ter­ies (espe­cially in thin ones like my Sony) are weak and are never charged when I want to take pic­tures.

    On the other hand, there are a bunch of replace­ment Nikon bat­ter­ies that deliver more mil­liamps than the name brand.

    — Jemaleddin October 17th, 2007 at 8:33 am #

  4. Oh, and the Garmin suc­tion cup sticks great on a wind­shield, but doesn’t release worth a darn. After baking in the sun for a summer, mine ripped when I tried to remove it and left a nasty black ring. YMMV.

    — Jemaleddin October 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am #

  5. Because my Tom Tom isn’t work­ing I am hoping to get a new one for Christ­mas. I really like the tom Tom com­pared to the Garmin. I prefer the bigger screen. Any place to do a prod­uct com­par­i­son online?

    — Caffeine October 21st, 2007 at 9:40 am #