Comments on: Sony Cyber-shot S950 Review

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:26:59 +0000

Overall I was happy with the camera picture quallity and features but the video quallity when viewing them on my computer was horribe. No matter what media player I used to view them would not help the poor clarity and fuzzy look of the video. I was very disapointed with it for that reason because I wanted a camera that had both decent quallity for pics and short video. If you really want good quallity videos I would avoid this model. I’ve always liked Sony products but this perchace has made me question continuing buying Sony stuff.

By: BELINDA

BELINDA — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:39:59 +0000

Ihave a sony DSC-S950 and the flash dont work, i have tried all settings ect, can the flash be replaced any help would be grateful thank you!!

By: Dejan

Dejan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:35:19 +0000

I would advice you to try a Memory Stick Pro Duo (MAGIC GATE-beware there are some Memory Stick Pro Duo which is not MAGIC GATE on the market!!) first. If still does not work I would advise you to look for a Canon which support a less cheaper SD memory card. In my opinion, Sony and Canon are the best brands concerning photography and so far, I have not been disappointed with the quality of their products. Good luck!

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:30:13 +0000

Hi Chris,

What company card were you using? I see a similar issue as well.

Thanks,
Ashish

By: Dejan Stankovic

Dejan Stankovic — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:06:32 +0000

I was really surprised to see such negative comments!!I possess a Sony Cyber-shot S 950 since 1 month now and I have not encountered any major problem so far. The quality picture outdoors is excellent. Taking landscape and portrait pictures outside was real fun. However, you need to adjust the proper settings before using it indoors (preferably use the Program mode and adjust the ISO mode to ISO 100), and still the picture quality is very good. The flash does a great job too. The optical X4 zoom is outstanding.

Having used a Canon Ixus 95 before it got stolen, I know what I am saying! Agree the video mode is a little bit below average (I hardly make any use of it anyway..), but this is not a bad camera at all. In fact, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a quality camera from a recognized brand and which takes quality pictures. And yes, buy genuine Sony products…not imitations!!!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:49:55 +0000

Sony camera can only use sony memory card… I'm not sure if you guys had a memory card that was sony, but that's one of the main issues ppl have trouble with

By: Rob Sundberg

Rob Sundberg — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:15:36 +0000

I also had trouble with my DSC-S950 and it’s memory stick. After filming two short videos I turned the camera off. When I turned it back on the camera no longer would recognize the memory sticak and the memory stick is now unusable. This seems to be a Sony problem with this camera.

By: Chris Pitts

Chris Pitts — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:59:43 +0000

The first week that I used my new DSC-S950 I was on vacation. I got some great shots. although I did have one proplem. I shot a short video clip with the camera then shut it off put it back in its case atached to my belt.I walked about ten minutes and wanted to take another photo, pulled it out and turned it on and the camera no longer would recognize the memory stick. 270 shots and 2 short video clips were sudenly no longer available to me and the memory is unusable. I have sent the memorv stick to a company in Clearwater FL. called LC technolagy to see if they can recover the data on the card. If they can it will cost me $125.00 us dollars, but I know there were some great shots there. I am quite dissapointed and Dont understand how this happened. SONY tech support cant or wont tell me what happened either

Dont konw wether I should keep it or try to replace it with another model