Maybe I got a bad camera?
353831
This camera was pretty awful. I needed it for close ups, photos of people and inventory for my online stores. It would take 5 minutes to focus on something. With flash, the picture would be completely white. Without flash, so dark with weird warm tones. I changed a lot of modes on this camera to try to figure it out. Coming from a DSLR Nikon, I would never buy this again. Switched to Canon rebel5i and in love.
2701057
First one was great!  Second on almost looks like it is out of focus??  After further testing, it appears to be a cable problem, not a problem with this camera!!
318279
Night shots turn out very bad quality. Regular photos sometimes are blurry. Otherwise operates ok.
1173726
Maybe I got a bad one in the bunch. But this camera I bought only takes blurry and grainy pictures. Yes I know to hold the halfway for a second to let it focus, it doesn't matter. It's still blurry. The settings are on auto. I've tried other settings it's the same result.

A waste of 350+ dollars. My old camera (that had a mechanical flaw so I returned it) was much better, with less megapixels (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7). Unfortunately with Sony's camera, I had the feeling it was blurry,  but didn't return it in time. Big mistake.

In the end it's all about the lens, not so much megapixels.

I'll never buy from Sony again. It's overpriced, overmarketed and shoddy.
4131067
Bought this for a trip, and guess what? After taking 3 photos, the shutter decided to stop working. Needless to say, I didn't have much photo for the trip. Luckily, it was within the 30 day return period, so I got my money back. With this kind of product, it will be a hit or miss. I probably got a bad one. Good luck!
4661910
Used a better quality camera and seems the monitor is a bit dim.
3681276
This camera doesnt work.  Error message on read out due to memory card? Ill return this next week.
2256589
I had owned a Nikon s210, when it broke and was not covered under warranty and Nikon wanted almost $100 to repair the camera, I decided to just spend $50 more and upgrade to the s220. Bad decision. I took the camera to Vegas with me. I thought that I had taken some really good pics. I got home to look at them and only half of them came out. Most of the problem was that the pics were out of focus, or blurry. And, the "auto scene selection" option never seemed to pick the right one, and even in "auto" the pics stilled turned out bad.
I was having this problem with the previous Nikon s210, which is why I sent it in for repair. I was hoping by upgrading that would fix my problem, needless to say I returned the camera right away, and will never buy another Nikon product.
2466197
I expected better quality of pictures but even in daylight the pictures come out blurry and distorted.  I understand it's a child's camera but I would think the pictures would at least come out clear.
2162590
The camera completely froze. I was at a wedding last night hoping to use the camera but when I tried to adjust the settings to make the resolution brighter the thing froze for the entire night completely unusable. I am going on a trip next weekend and was excited to use the camera urb now I know it's just going to Be unreliable and useless. I would like an exchange or assistance on how to make this camera usable again.
2080730
I may have another evaluation if I could see at least on picture.  I installed everything as directed in the manual.  Unfortunately the pictures would not upload to the PC.  Then I went to the user manual and it told me to redirect my COM port settings for this (...) camera.  I tried for hours for the sake of my daughter.  Then I called technical support and was unable to reach them.  Yikes.
I'm returning the camera.
4705200
I really am disappointed in this product.  Sometimes it takes good photos but zooming or close up...not good.  It really drives me crazy not being able to depend on it and never knowing how the shot is going to really look.
1128860
I took pictures of my artwork with the Nikon but I had a problem with the way the pictures were coming out. I tried again and again but each time certain areas of the picture came out faded. I had an earlier model of this camera before and it worked just fine, but in this case I had to return the camera. I guess in this case it was probably just my bad luck that I got a dud.

I was told that Canon has a better quality lenses and a better reputation in general, so I returned the Nikon and got a similar sized Canon. Amazon made it easy to return the Nikon and didn't make me pay for postage or a "repackaging" fee. The Canon arrived in a few days. It isn't quite as small, sleek, and sexy, but it takes fine pictures without any fading or distortion.
2703796
Film woks well.  In darker setting the pictures are quite dark (with the flash).  I am not sure if it is the fault of the camera (also Fuji) or the film.
1111172
The image quality is low, even at 12mp. Apparently this is an 8mp camera enhanced to 12mp. I get better image quality from my 5mp camera. I'd look elsewhere for a high image quality camera.
2019471
The pictures appear to be out of focus, could be caused by my tremor. My older Nikon took better pictures. At this price just satisfactory.
3676455
The camera body seem normal when I first got it. I took photos of day light time looks excellent. After a few month I used it to take photo indoor with dim light. I found it could not even focus. The photo came out terrible. I had it for about 6 months I am not sure what the seller will do to compensate.