Its a great innvotion by SONY, though the earlier model of digital camera are all of high perfomance. This one is the front runner, Apart from a great 10X optical zoom, it has a great storage capacity of 156 MB....... yeah...its true... no hassle of any costlier memeory stick or slow & low capacity storage of floppy.
This camera, only in the world to store its images on a CDR.
It uses a 8 cm smaller capacity CD.
Apart from this it has a feature to store the images in non compress format which earlier models of sony doesn’t have. Feature like external flash, manual focousing, great aperture control, high power LI-Ion batteries and many more has won the heart of all the photography people.