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Before I begin, I'm no expert, I'm the point and shoot disposable camera type who bought a digital so I wouldn't have to pay $10-$15 10 times a year for a throw-away anymore. So I bought the Dimage X becuase it looked cool and was actually smaller than a disposable. The camera will wow everyone when you whip it out to take a picture. There's no doubt that it looks great, feels great in your pocket and it's a take it anywhere camera.

Here are my thoughts.

Pros
-Small
-Looks cool

-Great Movie mode(35 secs with sound)
-Good zoom
-Decent price for the size
-Battery is pretty good, I took 100 pictures at Fine Quality before it died

Cons
-PICTURE QUALITY is worse than a k-mart no name brand throw away. Almost every picture I took indoors has a yellow tint. People will talk auto white balance with you, listen, they are YELLOW. The pictures are not sharp, as you would expect from a digital camera.
-The viewfinder is below par. You look through the viewfinder, think it's centered and after you take the picture it's completely off. I'm 24, my hands don't shake when I take a picture, something is wrong with the viewfinder quality.
-The picture program that comes with it is virtually useless.

My advice, I'm I'm being completely serious- Don't get fooled by the great looks. The bottom line is how the picture looks. Maybe the newer version will be better (Dimage Xi)... but my friend has the Fuji 2600 which sells for a lot cheaper, might be bigger, but the picture quality is crisp and digital worthy.

If you're looking for the smallest digital camera that
you can always bring around with you, this is it!
It's even more compact than the Canon S110 and fits well
in your shirt pocket. 3x optical zoom is excellent,
but images are a bit soft, and seem like they are only
of 1.5MP quality. Internal zoom lens structure allows
for fast start-up time and battery life is comparable to
that of the Canon S110 (about 150-180 pictures).
It's not so easy to hold this camera steady as the
shape does not allow for a natural grip of the hand,
and the buttons are a bit small. But if size is your
most important criterion then this digital camera
beats them all!

I bought this camera after having a sony digital mavica for some years. The dimage is amazingly convenient becasue it is so small, you can carry it anywhere so you can get better photos because you can catch odd moments where you wouldn't expect to have a camera. The mavica was a pain it was too bulky and heavy so I never wanted to carry it and downloading from floppy disks was slow.
my criticisms of the dimage x are these:
a. you can't put a date onto the photo
b. the photo numbers restart from 1 each time so that you can't just copy all photos into the same folder without clashes - you have to rename them (the mavica keeps on adding one to the photo name: mvc-771, mvc-772 etc.).
c. the photos tend to be dark. the automatic ISO handling doesn't function well so that I tend to have it permanently on cloudy. the mavica deals with this far better.
d. the dimage has difficulty with variations in contrast.
e. you can't permanently turn the flash off. every time you turn it on you have to turn off the flash because it tends to flash most of the time
f. the drivers are not available over the internet. I got stuck on holiday because I forgot to bring the drivers with me and couldn't download the photos.
g. on some flash photos at night I got blotches on the picture something to do with the lens.
h. I am unsure about how it handles bright colors - may have difficulty with this

in favor:
a. size size size though its also easier to lose...
b. battery life is long and charge time is fast
c. takes good photos in low light
d. easy to use menu
e. screen tells you how many photos left, how many you've taken
f. fast download though you need a usb connection
g. tough case
h. I enjoy using it and have got some good photos. sometimes need to do enhancements to bring it up to scratch

I just got this little camera. I opened it up, read a quick review of how to navigate the menus and started taking pics. So far this camera has not taken a bad picture in many different situations. Just set it on automatic and let it do its thing. I took pictures in the dark, in the refrigerator, lamps on in the room, outside in daylight, while driving down the street, all perfect pics. It just always takes perfect picture. I love it. Its small and light weight. Very nice camera. You just dump the pics via windows explorer via another drive letter it creates when you plug the camera in. You also delete pictures in the camera that way if you desire. Dumps VERY fast, also. I recommend it highly. You won't be disappointed.

I love this camera. I also bought a 128Mb Memory card. And the first weekend I took 197 photos. Anyway you'll need to buy a extra battery I took 80 photos at 1600 in fine mode at nigth with the lcd turned on before the battery run out! Be carefull or you'll will become potho maniac with this camera!