A review of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-M2 has just been put on Dcresource an upgrade to Sony Cyber Shot DSC-M1. Termed as a “hybrid camera” the DSC-M2 is a camera cum camcorder making it a good buy for the average user. However the M2
does falter on design and looks awkward. The battery life is also not great and can take 210 shots per charge. A great thing about the M2 is that has a built-in lens cover though the absence of a viewfinder makes you wonder what Sony was thinking.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-M2 has pretty standard features including a 5.1 Megapixel CCD, 3X optical zoom lens, rotating 2.5" LCD display, and a nice movie mode with stereo sound recording. The DSC-M2 includes a dock which doubles up for a stand to view the LCD. There is a built in flash and Sony has used its favourite F3.5-4.4 Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens. Its Exposure Compensation ranges from -2EV to +2EV in 1/3EV increments and has a Bracketing Feature too. Sony has also included Picture Package v1.2.1 for Windows as the main image viewing application which leaves much to desire

Digital Camera Resource Page in the end sums up the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-M2 as

“expensive and, in my opinion, difficult to hold and operate.” “The M2 is a point-and-shoot camera with a few nice extras. Those extras include an enhanced slideshow feature and an 1100 shot album that fills automatically as you take pictures. The album uses a memory bank that's built into the camera. Oddly, there's no internal memory for regular shooting, and Sony doesn't included a memory card either, so that $500 camera just got more expensive”