Nickname: Wayne Morellini

Review: This is the second best way of doing something. Sure, what the user wants is important, but often the user doesn't know exactly what they want, or how good it can get. That is where you need an intelligent designer to see a better path and offer it to the consumer in the surveys. The users are not simple cattle, they need a challenge to make something of their ability, and designs should give them some ability to do this. The features left out add dollars to the design, if not cents. They could be easily hidden behind an overall menu shooting mode option for advanced users, so the ordinary user need never know about them. Things like microphone ports could be hidden behind a flip down access panel. But alternatively, they could offer second advanced versions of certain cameras, with these advanced features, and pro features, added, like they do for their prosumer cameras, but for a few hundred more. In this way they leverage mainly the same components and assembly lines.

Date reviewed: Apr 22, 2006 7:16 AM

Nickname: Kam

Review: I guess it's kind of cool for that price point. But no matter how cheap it is, I wouldn't risk the unknown number of rootkits that'll come with the Sony software. No thanks, keep the virus to yourself.

Date reviewed: Apr 19, 2006 8:32 PM