Sony DSC-S30 Cyber-shot 1.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

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Product Description:

Your first step into Sony's world of Cyber-Shot digital photography. Built with Sony's typical care and attention to detail, the DSC-S30 is Sony's starter Cyber-Shot model. Complete with all the quality features, it also comes equipped with Memory Stick, USB port, optical/digital zoom, MegaPixel Super Advanced HAD CCD and the unique "dancing" Ex Bright 2" LCD that makes difficult, creative camera angles and self portraits simpler than ever before. And, as the S30 really gets your creativity going, it also has the power to go the extra photographic hours that only Sony's Stamina power management system and InfoLithium batteries can provide. It's a superbly designed, rugged little package that will keep up with you as you explore Sony's world of digital photography.
Product Details
  • Feature:
  • 1.3 megapixel sensor captures images with enough detail to create 5 x 7 prints
  • 3x optical plus 2x digital zoom lens with autofocus
  • Included 4 MB MemoryStick holds 18 images at default resolution
  • Connects to Macs and PCs via USB port
  • Rechargeable Sony InfoLithium battery and AC adapter included
  • BatteryDescription: Lithium Ion Rechargeable
  • Binding: Electronics
  • Brand: Sony
  • Compatibility: PC USB
  • Connectivity: USB
  • EAN: 0027242571235
  • FloppyDiskDriveDescription: None
  • FormFactor: Memory Stick
  • HasRedEyeReduction: 1
  • HasTripodMount: 1
  • Label: Sony
  • LensType: Zoom lens
  • MacroFocusRange: 1.2 to 9.8 inches
  • Manufacturer: Sony
  • Model: DSC-S30
  • MPN: DSC-S30
  • PackageQuantity: 1
  • ProductGroup: Photography
  • ProductTypeName: CAMERA_DIGITAL
  • Publisher: Sony
  • RemovableMemory: Memory Stick
  • Size: Medium Size
  • Studio: Sony
  • UPC: 027242571235
  • Warranty: 1 year warranty

Customer Reviews

lo res but shoots nice photos2009-03-14
expect sub-par pixel counts on photos taken with this camera but the low-light capability is excellent and it has easy, one touch settings for taking night pics and super-dark-nite pics: moon, and moon-plus, respectively. flip screen allows you to easily shoot from the ground by flipping the top-hinged screen upwards or in a a crowd by holding it over your head and flipping the screen up and pivoting it 180 degrees. sure wish it could do more than 1 megapixel photos. battery lasts a long time and the photos are so small that a 128 meg sony memory chip holds a lot of them.
What a great Camera - very well made2006-06-03
I've had my Sony DSC-S30 Digital camera for probably 5 years now. This has been a great camera for the cost and it's capabilities. I've taken many outstanding, crispy colorful pictures with it.

The rotating flat screen viewer is amazing - not aware of any other cameras featuring this. The on screen settings are simple to use, the feature to quickly review photos is great. You can easily change modes, and settings and really do a lot with this camera. It is very versatile and easy to use. I only had to refer to the manual once. I did buy the extra, larger-capacity memory card, and can easily take over 100 pictures on a long day trip.

The camera is USB cable equipped and is simple to use with any USB computer, or small photo printer. I've gotten TONS of use out of this camera. I can't say enough good about it. They are no longer in production but I highly recommend it if you are thinking of buying it used. I have always been very pleased with Sony products.
Great photos, great LCD viewfinder.... Infuriating button!2006-03-01
I have enjoyed this camera a lot and have taken consistently great pix that my friends with higher pixel-depth cameras (and what doesn't have more pixels at this point?) envy. The flippy swivelly viewfinder is the most useful feature I've ever had on a camera hands-down. I find it very hard to ever buy a camera again, that doesn't have one.

However, I really hope there's an eighth circle of hell devoted solely to the jackass who invented, for lack of a better term, the "soft" on/off button. For a hundred years the on/off button obeyed you. It turned something on or off at YOUR whim. There was no equivocating. Now, your computer or electronic device thinks about it for a while and without explanation refuses to fire (turn off, take the picture...) because your not in the righ mode, the camera's "brain" decides it not in the right mode, or that I wouldn't like the picture I'm trying to take. Who knows why? Now no matter how much you want the camera to take your freaking picture, at best your volition gets an ambiguous response; the camera may or may not obey. Most electronic cameras not have this heinous funtionality.

Can you think of any more worhtless time to not obey you, than when you need a specific time-based composition that will never recur? I can't tell you how many shots I've missed because of this idiotic feature. Really! A red-hot poker up the butt for eternity is not too much to ask, for the inventor of this modern scourge. I recently threw this camera across my car when it missed it's final shot that could not be recaptured.

great camera2002-12-14
i think the dsc-s30 is the best digital camera sony has made. its the only one i know of with the flip screen.
My Sony Dsc-s302002-03-10
I love Dsc-s30 digital camera it took pictures really clearly
Because I compared to others same level camera no one I like it.
The screen LCD is so greatest to view the pictures I took. It can
cover to protect the LCD screen. Nice looking ,good style.
But it can't take motion MPEG movie So ......I bought a new one
I still chose Sony dsc-P50....Ha Ha Dsc-s30 still my best one.
S30 battery life is longer then s-50 . It also can play MPEG
movie in Dsc-s30. Greatest I love it...
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