 One thing Sony seems to get that other camera companies don't is that we love touchscreens. The T300's huge widescreen 3.5 inch touchscreen LCD is about as nice as we've seen on a point-and-shoot, and even Sony's normally abysmal menu structure sees noticeable improvement with the added functionality of the touchscreen. iSCN, Sony's automatic scene selection mode, has an advanced mode that shoots using the user’s settings and automatically takes a second shot with optimized settings. The second photo is only taken if the camera determines the user's settings were not ideal. But our favorite feature was the child and adult priority settings in smile shutter mode, which detects which faces are children and which are adults, capturing the photo only when the intended subject smiles. The system isn't foolproof however, as baby-faced (yet assuredly adult) rep from Sony seemed to amusingly set off the smile shutter when set on child priority. As with the rest of Sony's T series, the T300 is about as slick as they come, but all that slickness comes with a price, as it comes in about $100 more than other similarly-sized cameras with many of the same features. Add in the fact it only takes Memory Stick memory cards and the T300 is far from a great value. Release: March 2008. Price: $400.
Pros: Huge touchscreen, smile shutter mode with child and adult priority
Cons: High cost, uses only Memory Stick flash cards
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