OT : Does anyone have

The eBay ones are OK, I paid around £40 for a 256MB one, the same one in Argos was £99!! I bought it from this place:

Ebay is much cheaper for this type of stuff than regular retailers. I was able to find a complete USB dock, charger and leads for my Sony DSC-T1 for less than half the retail price. I also got a 256mb duo pro stick at a good price.

Have a look on

In fact, I'll stop being a lazy so and so and look for you...

Try CostCo, they seem to have good prices on card memory. Steve

Danny

I bought the same camera about 4 months ago and have real problems in getting pics to be "focussed" ie clear and sharp. Have you had the same trouble? I don't have shaky hands - my husband has tried with my camera and the pics aren't sharp either yet when we photograph the same thing with his Olympus we get a great result. We've tried restoring factory settings but that hasn't changed anything. Any suggestions?

TIA for any help.

Regards

Viviane

Sydney, Australia

The camera is particularly difficult to get to grips with focus. Partly because of the size and no viewfinder so you hold the camera away from your body. With a viewfinder you generally hold the camera to your head so shake is minimised. I've found that really concentrating for a few shots soon teaches you how to hold the camera. The slow lens also contributes to this - don't forget that it's still taking the picture when the shutter sounds.

I took all the pictures on the following page with the Sony:

I found that changing the following settings helped with the overall picture quality (as recommended by a professional photographer in an online review I read) -

Set EV to -0.7 Set contrast to - (minus)