The Sony Cyber Shot DSC-N2 is a 10-mega pixel camera and it features a 3-inch touch screen along with a 38m-to-114mm equivalent lens. The Sony Cyber Shot DSC-N2 is small and fast, but the awkward touch screen hinders its use. Cnet has reviewed the Sony Cyber Shot DSC-N2 and writes: “This little

camera isn’t especially stylish, but its big, 3-inch touch screen and its 10-megapixel sensor make it an attractive little shooter as well as a worthy upgrade to the N1.The almost entirely touch-screen-driven control scheme results in a menu system that’s finicky and awkward to use, and display that’s not quite crisp or colorful enough to frame shots. The worst part is that touch screens often aren’t as responsive as hard buttons. I often ended up pressing the virtual buttons multiple times before they worked. Unlike the T50, the N2 doesn’t come with a built-in stylus. My best advice is to keep your fingernails long enough to use them when navigating the camera’s menus. The screen is more responsive to fingernails than to softer fingertips.”

“Besides the 3-inch touch screen and the 10-megapixel sensor, the DSC-N2’s features are rather mundane. While hardly ugly, it’s a great deal chunkier and less streamlined than Sony’s style-minded Cyber Shot T-series cameras. The inch-thick, 6.4-ounce camera is a nondescript, rounded metal rectangle that seems designed more for simplicity than fashion. It feels comfortable enough to use, but the tiny zoom rocker and edge-mounted mode switch makes one-handed use feel awkward and off-balance.”

“It uses a fairly standard 38m-to-114mm-equivalent lens with no image stabilization or any other low-light/high-speed features besides its ISO 1,600 sensitivity boost. While the DSC-N2 has a few manual focus settings, you have to select a specific focal length such as 7 meters or half a meter in the menu, rather than tweaking the focus while framing your shot. Like all Sony snapshot cameras, the N2 uses Sony’s Memory Stick Duo card format. The camera includes 25MB of internal memory, but that’ll get you just 10 or so 10-megapixel shots.”

“The Sony Cyber Shot DSC-N2 is a responsive, 10-megapixel shooter you can easily fit into your pocket. Unfortunately, compression artifacts hurt its images, and its touch screen controls feel awkward. The slightly smaller and more conventionally designed Canon PowerShot SD900 offers cleaner shots at the same resolution.”

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