“If you can put up with the DSC-M2’s awkward design (again, just my opinion) and high price, you’ll likely be pleased with the results you get from it. It does what it’s supposed to do, and it does it well. Still, it is $500, which is awfully pricey for a 5 Megapixel camera with a nice movie mode — and that doesn’t even factor in the cost of the memory card that you’re required to buy.

The M2 is a point-and-snap 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 snapping, and Sony doesn’t included a memory card either, so that $500 camera just got more expensive. The M2 could use some manual controls as well, with white balance and shutter speed being the most desirable. One thing that the DSC-M2 does very well is movie recording. It records movies at 640 x 480 (30 fps) with stereo sound until the memory card is full. Since the camera uses the MPEG-4 codec it takes a while to fill up. The camera even lets you use the zoom lens during filming! Again, Sony surprised me by leaving out even the most basic movie editing features on the M2.”

Taken from Jeff Keller’s review of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-M2