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Now the view finder is too small for my likings but you can turn off the screen and use the view finder only if you wanna save your battery power. To turn it on you just push this power button here. As you can see the lens pops out very quick and it turned it off the lens also goes in very quick. This port right here has the battery area which is really you have to take and it also has the memory stick area. The battery is very easy to put in. And then take it out you just pull this little thing out and it pops right out. And the battery recharges really easy to put in and out. It pops it in and then it has the thing in the back. The camera doesn't use a standard USB port. It uses a just a port right here and you got this cable that comes with it. You plug in there and you can plug it in your computer with the USB in and what I don't like about this cable is as you can see here right here it has the USB and the cable to hook it up to the video outputs. So I really don't like that and I don't like how you can't use a standard USB cable. It also comes out with this author that you never gonna need. As long as you have the USB cable I came with you plug right in there and it takes the [inaudible] [0:01:32.0] to run out the memory stick as long as you leave in here. This is just a software hold the companies come out this stuff and I really don't know why so you probably just turn this away. This camera has also standard environment settings that you would expect from taking photo in the snow in the mountains at the beach the movie one and then of course the one I always use the automatic one that uses whatever is best and it automatically detects it so you don't to keep changing it. And as a two times digital zoom and a three times optical zoom for a total of six times zooming and just uses little thing right here and it will zoom in and out. Depending on the quality that you want your photo you can have seven mega pixels three to two ratio five mega pixels two mega pixels two mega pixels VGA which is really meant for emailing and as you can see I can start over at 10 000 photos on a two gig card. So the quality is not that great and then a widescreen format. And with seven mega pixels I can hold 584 pictures on two gig memory stick and here are just some photos that I've taken with the seven mega pixel setting. As you can see the quality is superb. You might not be able to see it to its highest quality on this video because I don't know the how expo compresses the videos but you also take my word that it really it has really nice quality photo. One of the features I like on here is the burst tool and you just push down the shatter button hold it down and it will take four consecutive pictures at seven mega pixel quality. And it also has a multi burst and what that will do is take a 16 very quick photos and under a second and you just heard taking pictures and this is what it looks like when it turns on the camera it really weird down the light that is but a picture of four by four grid and if you change to burst with VGA quality you can actually hold down the button and it will take up to 64 photos. This most stores each picture individually and not like the multi version which stores as a grid. The video portion has three different modes the high quality the medium quality and then the low quality. The low quality is essentially meant for only emailing. The frame is rate is choppy and the video dimensions are really small. The medium is the standard and it is not good but it is not bad and that is 640 fine which it is good quality and you could easily get away with doing expo videos on here. Here is the sample from the 640 fine. Here is the sample from the 640 standard. And then here is the sample from the 160 and as you can see the 160 is awful. The dimensions are small and the frame rate is incredibly choppy. With this button appear you just push this button and then you can go back to all your photos and videos that you've taken. This is the first digital camera that I've had that was meant to take still photos. This is again is the Sony Cybershot DSCW55 and if you are looking for an upgrade a seven mega pixel digital camera I would recommend picking this up. It is a great value it is only about $150.00 buy at Amazon and it does everything I needed to so I definitely recommend this. Thanks.