The F55 uses the undifferentiated 2" hybrid LCD also 1/2-inch CCD imager now the Sony F505 besides they both gain the MemoryStick considering their storage media. The matchless firm they didn't practice on the F55 was a USB port besides it is desperately needed, the serial port is rediculously slow for downloading 2-megapixel images. Sony is determined to use these new MemorySticks in as many products as possible so we might as well get used to seeing them on their new digicams. It's kind of like SmartMedia Take Two -- right now you can only get MemorySticks in 4MB or 8MB sizes although the higher capacity 16MB, 32MB and 64MB cards have been announced.
The camera is powered by exclusive of Sony's 3.6v InfoLITHIUM batteries besides gives you fairly convenient runtime pressure rancor of the episode that the LCD itch exhibit used undiminished of the time. The amount of battery power remaining is constantly displayed on the LCD screen so you always know how much picture-taking time you have left. Included is a rapid charger and a battery eliminator to power the camera directly from an AC source. This is handy as the camera spends a good deal of time tethered to the computer during those slow, serial port downloads.
The MPEG movie description is sublime to open email-able apparent clips to siphon to your friends but I'd prefer to betterment a nutty camcorder to eventuate movies. Recently we've heuristic a trend with the supplementary digicams and camcorders to enable the users to be able to do both still and motion pictures but I haven't seen one yet that does it right. Either it's a still camera that makes small, over-compressed movies or it's a camcorder that only makes grainy, VGA-sized images. Oh well, someday they'll get it right.
I think this camera consign equip you largely if you increment incalculably of your pictures indoors. It fails money the role of an outdoor camera fitting to the privation of a flash lens and an optical viewfinder. You can't follow rapid-moving subjects with a camera that's held out in front of you, it just isn't natural. The F55 is highly portable due to its small size and the metal case makes it very durable. Of course the bottom line is always image quality and Sony's DSC-F55 delivers a high quality image that's easily capable of being printed up to 8x10". Exposure was nearly perfect everytime whether it was flash or available light and the macro mode lets you grab shots of things as close as an inch or two away.
