Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: sony 828

This is the new replacement for Sony' venerable 717. I bought it and sadly had to return it. while the feature set is great and the resolution is very good, there is terrible "purple fringing" in a majority of pictures which ruins the image quality.( see dpreview.com for their excellent review) From reading experiences in the photo forums, it seems that this is inherent in all the 828's. It seems that by cramming 8mp on to a small sensor, they went too far and the result is the ugly purple fringing. Can it be processed out with photoshop? sure, but who wants to do that with EVERY picture. I end up buying the Minolta A1 and am quite happy with it It produces excellent image quality, and has even more features than the 828. If you want a Sony, get the 717 model- its really good