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Review: Having owned a Fuji 601Z, which in its time was an award winner and cost me £500, I decided that digital photography must have made advances since I purchased mine from Amazon. I was in for a major shock! What did I want from my new camera? Well, great images and the ability to zoom in. I bought a few glossy digital camera mags and narrowed my choice down to the Sony DCS-H1. It has won too many awards to be ignored. I then attempted to find the best ‘deal’. Having submitted the DSC-H1 to numerous ‘shopping’ search bot engines, my previous experience having bought from Amazon many times before made me pay over the ‘odds’ for my DSC-H1. Amazon was more expensive than the cheapest by a massive £1.49! No contest, my order was submitted and 2 working days later and in the lead up to Christmas, my camera was delivered. 10 out of 10 for Amazon yet again! Now what do I think of the DSC-H1? Well it is smaller than I expected and smacks of quality. I did not open the box to get at the camera for 24 hours; instead I read the instructions, time and time again. Silly me! This is the most user friendly Gizmo that I have owned. The menu system is so easy, but I still would recommend reading the manual first. As for the picture quality, I was hoping for a bit better than my Fuji 601Z, so I took my first 13 shots directly to the internal memory as my Mem Stick had not arrived, then uploaded them to my PC, at full 5m pixel quality. When I viewed the shots for the first time using my DSC-H1, I was speechless! The quality of the photos was beyond my belief, stunning colours and crispness of the shots, but then adding the anti shock to a full 12x zoom blew my mind! The DSC-H1 is big, but not enough to warrant rejection, in fact, when I opened the box, I was surprised at how small the camera was compared to a digital SLR. In summary, the DSC-H1 takes awesome photos straight out of the box using the ‘auto’ mode. The quality of the images it takes is frankly amazing! If you are looking to take fantastically detailed pictures, you could buy another camera, but you would me mad if you did! The DSC-H1 has massively changed my opinion of the camera, now you and I can really take brilliant shots, right out of the box. The more I use the DSC-H1, the more I realise what rubbish is available. Clearly this camera is AWESOME and at a bargain price. The only negatives:
Cover for USB connection appears to be a bit flimsy
Cover for battery and Mem stick seems a bit flimsy. | 
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