Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W560 14.1 MP Digital Still Camera with Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 4x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom Lens and 3.0-inch LCD (Silver)

For the price, this is a very nice little camera. Easy to set up and use and takes very good pictures.A word of caution. The camera does not come with a memory card and it will not function without one. It takes two types of card: either a Memory Stick Pro Duo or an SDHC Memory Card. The old "Memory Stick" cards used in older Sony cameras will NOT fit in this camera. So either purchase a card from Amazon when you buy the camera or prepare for a trip to the store when the camera arrives (Target sells both types of cards).I recommend purchasing a second battery. As previous reviewers have noted, the battery must be removed from the camera to be recharged - there is no provision for charging in the camera. Having a second battery available allows you to just pop it into the camera and you're ready to go. If you wish to purchase an additional battery, I can't see why you should purchase the Sony battery for $35.00 when you can purchase a generic brand, which works just fine, for about 5 bucks on Amazon (just do a search on Amazon for "NP-BN1"). Another reviewer commented that removing the battery reset the time and date on his camera, requiring the time and date be set up again. I didn't have this problem. Because I got distracted with something else, I left my camera on the table with no battery for several hours. When I put the fresh battery in, the correct time and date were still programmed.

The camera did not come with a charger, which I later found out that it was because the charger port is broken. The battery is also taped because it would not stay closed on its own. For the photos I was able to take with the camera, I was not able to transport the images with the memory card. Overall terrible purchase and a complete waste of money. Shame on you for selling this.

Unfortunately we got this camera which we absolutely LOVED...except there is a lens defect apparently in every camera by this model...called PINCUSHION DISTORTION. If you're standing off to the side of the picture and lets say you put your hand up to wave, everything around the edges of the pic turn out much LARGER in size than the center (like your head)....so it looks like your hand is larger than your head right next to it. My arm looked massive in one pic where I was sitting to the side of the picture....at first it's not as noticeable because you don't necessarily take shots that you'd be able to tell....then start noticing it a lot more and realize all the shots are like this. We returned it, got our money back, and bought the same camera, different model (don't remember which one we decided one)....It might have been the 350??I wouldn't get this MODEL but the CAMERA we liked! Colors were great. :-)

my girlfriend LOVES to take pictures and for a long time shes been wanting a new camera. so i spent HOURS and days researching cameras. reading review after review and ratings. and i bought this camera. and boy did it not disappoint. it has absolutely everything you need if you want great pictures. whether you just need a camera for the holidays or vacations, or you take 100 pictures every single day, this camera is awesome. it zooms, its quality on the camera looks great. if you have a huge group of people or just want a picture with a lot of trees and nature this has a feature where you move the camera over a huge and wide span of space and it turns it all into one picture, so it captures it all. basically, this camera is the bomb, i dont write reviews but i had to write this one. this camera is amazing

I've had 4 Sony Cyber-shots within the last 5 years or so. I've always loved the quality of the pictures I get with these cameras without too much forethought. I just put it in "auto" and click away. However, this camera would not take a clear picture in the auto mode, or any mode. In fact, every picture I took with it was blurry. I checked the lens and it seemed to be clear. I'm not sure if I received a defective camera or not as I returned it for a refund.