
Ultra-compact but excellent picture quality!

Pros: Very slim & pocketable(Still about the slimmest digicam you can get?), image quality surprisingly good for size, excellent macro pictures, digital noise quite well controlled
Cons: Red eye can be a problem (though there's a red eye reduction option), model now three years old, takes a proprietary battery format (though it's really too slim to take AA/AAA batts!) erm... I'm struggling now!
I got a very battered and slightly faulty one of these to play about with, and was so impressed by it I went and bought a fully working one! This is a great 'go-anywhere' camera, I can slip it in my pocket whenever I'm going out for those opportune moments that may pop up, or where taking my bigger camera wouldn't be convenient. You won't be sacrificing much image quality either as it takes great photos, the macro pictures being particularly impressive. Indoor low light pictures are very good, noise is well controlled (that 'graininess' you get with digicams in low light situations) though still evident, the flash has a limited range though most of them do.
The T7 also has plenty of settings to play about with, including being able to select ISO, play with sharpness/contrast/exposure compensation settings, though you can't manually set aperture or shutter settings, but what do you expect from an ultra-compact camera! Speaking of which, I don't think there's a mainstream manufacturer producing a camera as slim as this, I read somewhere Sony stopped producing this due to consumers complaining of them breaking, but it seems pretty robust to me.
I'm struggling to find bad points about this camera, one would be a tendency to produce red-eye in photos, though the flash does have a red-eye reduction setting to reduce/eliminate this. The other downside is that this camera was introduced in 2005, so can only be bought second-hand now. It's also only 5.1 megapixels, you're getting cameraphones with that resolution now - but has a very good lens - it's pictures are of a superior quality when compared to my N95 phone. Remember though quality of the lens is what's important, not megapixels, most people won't need more than 5mp unless for specialised reasons or if you're printing pictures A3 or bigger size!
Overall, if you can find one of these for sale, I'd get one even if you already have a digicam, it's size and portability mean it's really a 'go-anywhere' camera and pictures shouldn't disappoint. These still change hands on Ebay for up to and sometimes above £100 for a minter so have held their value well. Just make sure you get one with at least the USB cable, as it has a proprietary (Typical Sony!) connector not a standard mini-USB one, though they are available on Ebay!
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