The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V can be a feature-packed super-zoom camera, offering a 30x, 27-810mm standard zoom lens, 18.2 megapixel back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, built-in GPS tracking including a compass, 1920x1080 50p Full HD video recording with hifi stereo sound and HDMI output, and 3D Sweep Panoramas and 3D Still Images. Other key popular features of the well-appointed Sony HX200V include high-speed autofocusing (0.13 seconds), a tilting 3 inch LCD screen with 921,000-dots, 10fps burst shooting mode at full resolution, ISO variety of 100-12800, Optical SteadyShot with Active Mode which cuts camera-shake while you’re shooting handheld HD video, Intelligent Auto Plus, Superior Auto, Program and full Manual shooting modes, a wide range of Picture Effects and and support for both Thumb drive PRO Duo and Secure Digital cards.

Compact cameras with big zooms - the so-called travel camera category - are big business today. Find the balance right and you’ve hit the so-called sales ‘sweet spot’. So it’s hardly surprising this manufacturers are battling one other for that can supply you with the longest lens reach, the greatest resolution (with minimal noise at higher ISOs), however the smallest overall chassis. Sony’s new Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V isn’t a pocket model like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30 in any way - it offers instead, just like its predecessor the HX100V, taken its design cue from an entry-level DSLR or bridge camera. It’s you to definitely be worn concerning the neck, slung within the shoulder - with strap shipped to both purposes - or tucked in a very suitable pocket of this rucksack. The optical zoom recommendations 30x, like its forebear, although effective resolution has become boosted from 16.Two million to 18.2 million pixels. It possesses a 1/2.3-inch Sony Exmor R CMOS sensor.

In not a style aware pocket snapshot - despite being the flagship unit of Sony’s High end compact series - the HX200V, which also incorporates built-in GPS, their very own shooting advantages; chiefly check your grip is greater - perfect to squeeze three fingers comfortably around - you, when set with rechargeable battery and SD or Thumb drive Pro Duo card, is heavier, plus both of these features help produce a steadier hold when shooting towards the telephoto end in the zoom. To help expand help alleviate problems with blurred shots in these circumstances plus low light, Sony has provided optical ‘SteadyShot’ image stabilization.

The build and handle this is of high quality, with all the current all-black matt finish on your body as well as other DSLR-like dials and controls - aside from both angle adjustable LCD and integrated electronic viewfinder - on initial inspection lending it an impression to become a ‘serious’ enthusiasts’ model. While, as we’ll discover, there can be some features missing for the reason that department, overall we tend to look in the HX200V for the same manufacturer’s beginner's Alpha DSLRs; it’s less obviously plastic-y. The lightweight does mean that choosing the right control is never a stretch for forefinger or thumb. Most of the features you would like to access have been with the fingertip, which needless to say produces speedier overall operation. The sole obstacle could possibly be, cough, the fee. An amount of £479 via Sony’s online store at the time of writing would be the equal of your basic amateur digicam and kit lens, if admittedly one with much less scope in relation to available focal range. Overall dimensions are 121.6x86.6x93.3mm and also the HX200V weighs a starter DSLR-like 531g.

Leading within the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is covered with the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens, here boasting a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and also a focal range similar to a broad angle (rather than ‘ultra’ wide) 27mm to 810mm in 35mm film terms - suggesting serious ‘poke’ with the telephoto end and real suitability for those paparazzi style candid portraits at full zoom, as well as naturally landscapes and group portraits inside wider end. The lens has the benefit from built-in anti shake and the maker claims this model includes a refined gyro sensor - presumably, hopefully, thereby rendering it wealthier.

We receive an AF assist/self time lamp porthole top left with the lens - when viewing your camera front on. The barrel itself comes with a lens ring, that can hold real appeal for photographers preferring to acquire face to face, because this not just controls the zoom - if you happen to don’t wish to use the compact camera-style lever that alternatively encircles the shutter release button - but sometimes double to target if flicking the switch beside the lens to ‘MF’ mode. So manual focusing and manual zooming which has a consumer level ‘super zoom’ camera, that is definitely less physically bulky than say Fuji’s Finepix HS20 and HS30 models (also 30x); that’s not implying it’s wholeheartedly better needless to say - for those the Fuji remains equipped with the additional edge for additional precise manual focusing. Round the Sony the zoom action remains motor driven, however, you handle it.