Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200 review

The ever stylish Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T200, update to the Cyber-shot DSC-T100 comes in an ultracompact frame with 8.1 megapixels. Battery life is good with at least 125 shots between charges although the battery is smaller than the T30. This is surprising given the large screen, a touch screen at that. The touchscreen opens up a whole new way of operating a camera while setting up a shot especially for less experienced photographers who are not set in their ways already. Shutter lag is no problem, nearly instant once focused.

On the downside it uses Sony’s proprietary Memory Stick PRO Duo, like all other Sony products. The auto white balance feature could use some work. It’s a tiny camera and there is barrel distortion at the lens edge. For the price the image quality isn’t great, especially indoors in auto mode. But what you get is a small, stylish, Sony camera with some slick new features and a very useful interface. It may depend on how much it’s worth for you to have a camera with a large touchscreen.

Basic features:
8.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD
Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom lens; up to 25x Smart Zoom feature
3.5-inch widescreen, touch-panel Clear Photo LCD Plus
Face Detection technology (up to 8 faces)
Multi Resizing
Adjustable flash intensity
Super Steadyshot

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7.1 megapixels DXG-711 digicam

After a slight detour with some PMPs, low-end manufacturer DXG is getting back to its regular game of cheap but wholly unremarkable digital cameras, upping things to a full 7.1 megapixels with its new DXG-711 digicam. Apart from that more than adequate (for most) resolution, the camera will give you a 3x optical zoom, a 2.5-inch LCD display, a built-in voice recorder, and 32MB of internal memory — it’s not clear what expansion options there are, (more…)

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