My Sony DSC T-10

After a couple of MONTHS of research and nerve racking thinking...I finally "bit the bullet" last Friday and decided on this beautiful silver Sony T-10 for about $312 + tax. Since then, I've carried it with me ALL the time and taken quite a few pictures...thanks to it's super small size (almost as small at the Casio S600).

I really like it. The best thing being, it has an optical image stabilizer to keep the images blur free. I actually did several side by side comparisions, twice in store with a Canon SD630, and, with my bicycle-insider friend's Canon IXY80 camera in a very low light shooting situation at Ruby Tuesday's this past weekend.

So long as the subject's not moving, the T-10's pictures come out super clear. My friend's IXY80 LOOKED like it took a brighter picture...through the LCD, BUT...it was NOT blur free, compared to my pictures.

Here are two shots, one taken in Auto Mode w/ no flash, and the second taken at High ISO (1000) w/ no flash. Amazingly, both at 1/8 second, you can still read the words!



I would say, though, that for all intents, the T-10 NEEDS the image stabilizer since it has a "slower" 3.5 apeture on the wide end, compared to Canon's standard 2.8. So when shooting moving subjects, in general, it would need more exposure than the Canon. On the long end, though, the T-10 has a faster 4.3 opening compared to Canon's 4.9???.





Gotta relearn how to hold the camera better, though, since the non-ergonimic corner lens has caught my finger a few times while shooting like this: