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

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [1.57mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 2.7 x 4.4 x 2.7 inches ; 13.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004UDQ3
• Item model number: DSC-S30
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,503 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 12, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The DSC-S30 is Sony's entry-level Cyber-shot camera. Like all of the Cyber-shots, it uses a long-life InfoLithium battery for power and stores images on memory sticks. The camera's CCD sensor has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels (for 1,280 x 960 images), and built-in software interpolation can be used to boost the image to 1.6 megapixels. Instead of looking through a traditional optical viewfinder, users compose images by watching the 2-inch LCD display. The display's unusual flip-and-swivel design lets you preview self-portraits and protects the LCD when the camera isn't in use. Other useful features include a 3x optical/2x digital zoom lens with macro mode, USB image transfer, aperture priority and shutter priority modes, and video output.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid camera, but..., October 19, 2000

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Brian (Canton, Gabon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DSC-S30 Cyber-shot 1.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Electronics)

I just purchased this one for a trip to Greece, Egypt, and Israel. I was very pleased with the battery life. I'd plug it in every night and it would last all day with no problem. The picture quality is excellent during the day and night. If you make the purchase, you'll need another memory stick. I got the 64 meg stick (Ken Tracey) and could take 112 shots at the highest resolution. I blew up a few of my pictures to 8x10 and the quality was quite good. If your planning on doing that though, I'd recommend the 2.1 meg Sony. All in all, I'm a happy camper

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best value, October 31, 2000

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Richard Holbach "tricki" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DSC-S30 Cyber-shot 1.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Electronics)

i have been shopping for a digital camera for about 9 months and the dsc30 is the best value. it produces great quality pics. the battery life is awesome--watch out for anyother camera with regular AA's you'll be luck to get 15 flash photos on it. with this camera i got over 100 photos on a rechargeable battery!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great beginner digicam, December 18, 2000

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Levi (Reston, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DSC-S30 Cyber-shot 1.2MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Electronics)

This camera is great for the beginner digital camera enthusiast. I got this camera as a present last Spring and enjoyed it thoroughly, taking it on a trip to Italy. If you want to see samples, please email me and I'll send you links to these pictures. The pictures it takes are wonderful, bright, vibrant colors, great contrast, etc. That should be the main thing to be concerned about when starting out. One of the best things other than the image itself was the flexible lcd viewfinder. You can twist it around in every which way, making it ideal for taking candid shots. Another great feature is the infolithium battery which lasts forever (the person who said he had problems with his must have had a defective one) and constantly tells you how much time you have left before it needs to be recharged. The menu system is a snap. The camera is compact enough to fit in a coat pocket. Obviously for a lower-resolution, lower-end camera, you're not going to find high-end features like manual modes, etc., but you do at least have some flexibility in terms of flash and exposure modes. Another downside, though easily fixed with some extra money is the included 4mb memory stick. You really need more if you want to take more than a few shots. Obviously you can decrease the resolution which increases the number of shots you can take, and although these lesser-resolution pics are clear, they may not be suitable for printing. At the highest resolution, 4x6 prints come out nicely, but lower resolutions produce prints that are not very good. The other side of this is that memory sticks are proprietary to Sony products. So in order to take full advantage of the medium, your MP3 player and PDA would have to be Sony products as well, so that you could use the sticks interchangably. Sony still hasn't learned their lesson from Betamax or Minidiscs, but that's another issue. Yes, speed is also an issue. It takes quite a while to take a picture after hitting the shutter release, and even longer to take another one after the shot. As long as you don't primarily take pictures of kids (or other fast moving objects ;-) this camera is great!