It’s interesting how the debate around color choices in cameras continues to get both support and rebuttals in pretty much every camera I come across these days.  And today, while talking about the Sony DSC W230 camera, I’m going to get a little more support for those who think that color choices are a sign of a bad camera underneath all the fancy paintjobs.

The Sony DSC W230 is a twelve megapixel camera with a 4x optical zoom, a BIONZ image processor, intelligent scene recognition technology, face detection technology, the “smile shutter” system, image stabilization, and anti-blur systems.

I had a huge problem with this camera because of ease of use issues.  It was tough trying to figure out, viscerally, what did what and where I was supposed to go on the menus to dig up my next choice.  In fact, it’s an awful lot like the Sony DSC T70. It has many of the same ease of use issues that I had with the DSC W230.

Color choices aren’t always a sign of a bad camera to come, but in this case, it definitely is.

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