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Sony Cyber-shot HX200V Super Advanced High Zoom Camera (18.2MP, 30x Optical Zoom) 3 inch LCD

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  • Exmor R CMOS Sensor - Superb low light performance from the best sensor we've ever put in a compact, designed to reduce noise through increased sensitivity
  • Perfect for use in wildlife or landscape photography with a powerful 30x optical zoom
  • Superior Auto makes great shots effortless but take control if you need to with the DSLR-like manual functions
  • Sweep Panorama and 3D Sweep Panorama functions available
  • Wide Angle 27mm Lens
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  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 12.2 x 8.7 cm ; 531 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 1.4 Kg
  • Item model number: DSCHX200VB.CEH
  • ASIN: B007DDCVJU
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 28 Feb 2012
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,384 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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High sensitivity pro-style Exmor R CMOS sensor with 18.2 megapixels for unsurpassed pictures even in low light.
High sensitivity pro-style Exmor R CMOS sensor with 18.2 megapixels for unsurpassed pictures even in low light.
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Make no compromises

It’s all about zooming in and getting the best possible picture, isn’t it? Fine detail, vivid colour, sharp contrast, from up close or far away. Perhaps you’re not ready for the step to digital SLR but you certainly want a camera that can reproduce your vision perfectly. One that takes care of everything automatically or works with your creativity when you want to experiment with manual settings. This advanced bridge camera does all that for you, whether you’re shooting high resolution pictures, 3D panoramas or full HD video. Great for wildlife and landscape photography, day or night, with a very powerful zoom and the best low light features. Get out there and explore.

Getting you right up close

A herd of antelope being stalked by a lion. Killer whales off shore. Eagles atop a distant peak. How many times have you wanted to zoom in and catch the action without moving an inch? This camera gets you up to thirty times closer at the touch of a button. That means you can shoot photos with levels of detail and clarity that simply wouldn’t be possible with a low zoom. Of course, you don’t have to be in the Serengeti, Pacific Northwest or Cairngorms – try it at family picnics, football matches and school plays. So useful.

30x optical zoom with 27mm wide angle Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens.
30x optical zoom with 27mm wide angle Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens.
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Keep shooting in low light

Sunrises, sunsets, some of the most dramatic pictures are taken in that twilight between night and day. But the fact is, you need a pretty decent camera to capture it perfectly. How many times have you shot at dawn or dusk, only to get back home and be royally disappointed with the dark, grainy results? With this camera, you’ll have no such problem as it includes an Exmor R CMOS sensor, the best low light sensor we’ve ever put into a compact or bridge. So when you’re trying to capture those orcas in the black waters of the Pacific, you know the darkness won't hide the detail in the scene.

Everything sharp and vivid

There’s nothing complicated about megapixels. The more you have in your camera, the sharper and finer your pictures, especially when enlarged or played back on your big screen TV. No more fuzzy faces, diluted detail or blurred backgrounds. No more hammering away at the delete button. If you want to blow up a great shot of yourself and get it framed, it’s a sure bet you’ll see much more detail with a high megapixel camera. This one has plenty of pixels – over 18 million to be precise - more than enough to make impressive large prints or crop a picture to focus on something specific without losing definition.

Superior Auto – automatic light and focus setting of up to 15 scenes..
Superior Auto – automatic light and focus setting of up to 15 scenes.
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Pro shots with ease

This camera makes taking professional-looking pictures a doddle. How? By including our best ever Optical SteadyShot for shake-free, blur-free photos or videos even while walking or zooming in and Superior Auto for completely automatic light and focus setting of up to 15 scenes*. You’ll never again miss that spontaneous photo opportunity – just pick up the camera and off you go.

Be bold enough to explore

But then sometimes you want to do it your way. To put your own touch and tone to a picture. To make it uniquely yours. No problem at all. Take full control and pilot your own photography with a range of advanced DSLR-like manual functions including manual ring for smooth zoom and focus, jog dial, White Balance shift, custom button and memory recall. Try it and you’ll never look back.

Films sparkling HD video

It’s a windy day on the beach. The parasol has gone cartwheeling towards the sea and all the family are in hot pursuit. Except you. A photo won’t quite bring out the comedy in the scene so you switch to video and start filming, all at the touch of a button and in glorious high definition. Look at the colours in the parasol, the detail in the surf, the perfectly reproduced panic in their voices – in stereo of course. Then when you get back home, transfer everything to your PC and enjoy the farce. PlayMemories software does everything for you in seconds so you can get editing or uploading or e-mailing in the time it takes to make a cuppa. After all, be a shame if that parasol experience stayed unseen in your camera, wouldn’t it?

Intelligent Sweep Panorama

There’s times when the scenery is just so vast and never-ending that even a wide angle lens can’t catch it all. So where do you film? Over here, over there? Or do you take several shots and hope they’ll link together somehow? The Solution – Intelligent Sweep Panorama. You simply press the shutter while sweeping the camera slowly from one side to the other to create one amazing panoramic image.

Wow, looks great in 3D

If you’ve got a 3D TV in your living room, why wouldn’t you want a 3D camera? The chance to see your summer holiday shots brought vividly back to life in a whole new dimension on the big screen? This camera takes great 3D photos – just press the shutter button and it takes two consecutive shots then analyses depth and clarity to create a single 3D image. It also lets you capture stunning landscapes and cityscapes in panoramic 3D with Intelligent 3D Sweep Panorama.

Tracks your adventures

Like travelling? Good, then you’ll appreciate having GPS on your camera. It tells you just where you took that shot of the mountains and displays your position on screen during your journey. You can relive your adventure when you get back home with online map views on your computer.

Everything photo is sharp and vivid with 18.2 megapixels.
Everything photo is sharp and vivid with 18.2 megapixels.
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Catches every detail

Lion sprinting across the bush? Fighter planes at an airshow? No problem with this camera. It can shoot continuously at up to 10 frames per second, grouping sequences of shots together and analysing them so you can quickly pick out the best picture. Even better, the mechanical shutter eliminates distortion for perfect clarity.

Impressive background blur

Take portraits and other photos with natural blur, just as you would with a Digital SLR camera. Background Defocus mode is easy to use and allows you to choose low, medium or high blur. It’s the same kind of dynamic effect you see in the movies and really gives you the freedom to get artistic with your pictures. Great for sharply defined close-ups of people or flowers against a blurred forest or field.

Need a creative boost

Perk up your pictures easily using Picture Effects. Enhance mood and style by choosing from a full range of effects including Toy Camera, Partial Colour for stunning monochrome shots, Soft High-Key, trendy Pop Colour, watercolour and Illustration. This last effect is really cool, turning your pictures into great-looking cartoons.

No point in squinting

We’ve all done it or laughed at someone else doing it. Squinting through a tiny screen to frame a shot or look at a photo. This camera refuses to put you in that ridiculous situation by including a large screen with a wide viewing angle so everything is as easy and comfortable as possible. You’ll enjoy excellent detail and high contrast, even in sunshine. Just imagine being in the mountains, taking shots with your friends, then gathering round at the cabin to enjoy the slideshow.

Let’s face it, we like smiles

They’re natural, spontaneous, here one moment, gone the next. You just don’t have time to set up your camera for a quick smile shot so this one does it all for you. Smile Shutter automatically takes pictures when people smile – great for brides and grooms, birthday celebrations and baby chuckles. Face Detection automatically adjusts exposure, focus and skin tone so everyone looks more natural. Even better, the camera detects up to 8 faces at a time while working on that irritating red eye effect to make sure your portraits are near on perfect.

* Scenes include High Sensitivity, Night Scene, Handheld Twilight, Night Portrait, Landscape, Soft Snap, Soft Skin, Anti Motion Blur, Backlight Correction HDR, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Advanced Sports Shooting, Gourmet and Pet Mode.

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Sensor Type
CMOS CMOSCMOS
Image Stabilisation
Optical Steady Shot Optical Steady Shot Optical Steady Shot
Lens
G lens
G lens
CZ lens
HD Video
1080i 1080p 1080p
Optical Zoom
16x 20x 30x
Megapixels
18.2MP
18.2MP
18.2MP
Colour
Black, White, Red Black, Brown Black
Advanced
GPS
GPS GPS


Product Description

Sony Cybershot DSCHX200V Digital camera 3D compact 182 Mpix 30 x optical zoom Carl Zeiss black DSCHX200VBCEH Cameras Digital Cameras


Customer Reviews

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94 of 96 people found the following review helpful
By FlowaPowa VINE™ VOICE
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I absolutely love this camera! I have only had it for 4 days, and have spent hours taking photos with it already.

For background information, I am comparing this camera to my well-loved point-and-shoot Canon Ixus 90 IS. I have never owned a compact bridge or DSL camera before.

Here are my first impressions:

The body is well built and feels very sturdy. It weighs in at 613g including the strap, battery and memory card. When I add the weight of my case (bought separately) the weight goes up to 850g - this is heavy compared to my other camera, and I don't think I'll be taking it out and about for holiday snaps. For specific photo-trips though, the weight is OK.

Despite the weight, the camera feels very well balanced and so far I have not had any finger or wrist strain whilst taking photos.

The camera does not come with a memory card, but it does have some internal storage - sufficient for around 20 photos I think.

Even though it is an 18.2MP camera, the individual photos do not seem to take up too much storage space - around 3 to 4 MB per photo (about the same as my 10MP point-and-shoot camera).

I'm absolutely delighted with the photo quality produced. The auto setting is excellent, and the many extra settings allow for lots of creativity. I particulary like the blurred background setting - my portrait photos of my family have come out looking very professional.

The on-camera help facility is fantastic - if you press help it will display information that is relevant to wherever you are in the settings. I have learnt a lot aready about photography, although I do still have some way to go! You can even adjust the strength of the flash...I haven't tried this yet.

There is no paper manual or disc supplied with the camera - but you really don't need either. The camera plugged into my Vista PC and worked straight away, and as I have already said, the on-camera help is perfect with help providied where and when you need it.

The zoom is incredible - 30 times optically, and then another 30 times digitally. It seems to have some clever software on board to improve the digital image as it zooms in.

In addition to the LCD display there is also a view finder. This is extrememly handy in bright conditions. When you put your eye to the viewfinder, the screen goes off to prevent glare. I don't think the view finder is optical, as it seems to be a copy of what is being displayed on the screen. This is useful when looking something up in the help facility, as help is also shown through the LCD. Suits me fine, but I'm not sure whether top photographers would like it.

The panarama setting is wonderful - it works like you are taking a video, but then puts it into one image. No more stitching photos together on the pc!

In conclusion, I heartily recommend this camera to anyone moving up a step from a basic point-and-shoot camera.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant 29 May 2012
By Owen
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I started off with high hopes for this camera, and I must say, it has lived up to all of them! This camera combines the image quality and professional appearence of a DSLR with the "point-and-shoot" ability of a compact. It's 30x optical zoom also rates it above most DSLRs, (on which you would have to spend considerably more for such a feature).
It also has excellent macro abilities, so you can picture anything from tiny insects and flowers to distant aircraft ect.
Don't get put off by its complicated, proffessional appearence, many of its modes are completely automatic, although there are more complicated modes and settings, should you wish to try them out. For the most part, this camera is not that different to my fujifilm compact, a camera specially designed for ease of use, in many ways it is actually less frustrating because you can adjust the settings.
This camera also has breath-taking HD filming abilities, but be careful, two of the filming modes cannot be put onto stadard DVD.

All in all, this is an amazing camera, the picture quality and professionalism puts it above compacts, its ease of use, price, features and zoom put it above DSLRs.

Keep up the good work, Sony!
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63 of 67 people found the following review helpful
By J. Lyne VINE™ VOICE
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This is the latest hybrid camera from Sony to fill the gap between compact and SLR digital cameras.

It feels very well made and is quite comfortable to hold for a long period of time with both hands. Try to hold it with one hand and you discover that the grip is about one finger too short and after just a few seconds it gets very uncomfortable. The controls are easily reached and logically laid out although I found myself accidentally pressing the flash mode button with the palm of my hand when holding it single handed. There is a dial around the lens which can be used as either a zoom control or as a manual focus ring. Presumably this is to add to the SLR effect. This is marginally successful in zoom mode (although it does work in the opposite sense to most SLR zoom lenses which I found very annoying) but in manual focus mode I had less success. The natural way to use the manual focus is when you are looking through the eyepiece (more on that in a bit) but as the resolution is quite poor through the eyepiece it is very hard to see what is in focus.

The screen is very large and clear and easy to see in bright sunlight. It provides lots of good information about the various camera modes including the life of the battery in the current mode. Very handy for long days out to plan your camera use. The screen tilts out and can be placed horizontally at 90 degrees to the body viewable either from above or below. Very handy for holding the camera high and shooting above heads in a crowd for example. Or getting creative and using low angles. The viewfinder is a digital finder with fairly poor resolution. It automatically changes from screen to viewfinder when you hold the camera close to your eye - which is a nice touch - or it can be selected using a dedicated button on the camera. It is quite hard to see what is in focus when looking through the viewfinder, yet despite this I have found myself using it a lot especially when taking advantage of the high zoom or sport mode. It is also great for bright sunny days. However it is quite sensitive to the angle through which you view it so you have to keep your eye directly in the centre or it can be very blurry.

The main selling point of this camera is of course the lens. The 30x zoom of the Carl Zeiss is stunning. And when that is combined with the superb digital zoom some quite staggering levels of zoom are possible and produce surprisingly good images even at 120x. The optical image stabilisation works very well even up to the maximum zoom levels. There is a lens cap on a bit of string which is such an unusual thing to find on a modern digital camera that I often as not forget to remove it before turning on the camera. luckily it just pops off and because it is held on with the string it doesn't get lost.

The flash is powerful and can be selected to operate in many different modes as required and expected of a high end SLR. There is also a GPS included which will tag your photos with a location at the expense of battery life.

There are a myriad of modes selectable via the large dial on top of the camera. These modes are repeated on a virtual dial displayed on the LCD screen and through the viewfinder which is handy sometimes if you are framing a shot and realise you have the wrong mode selected. However there is a pause of a second or two while the camera displays this information and this has led me to miss the shot on several occasions. The modes themselves cover every possible situation from sport through HDR to super sharp (where the camera takes a series of photos and amalgamates them in to one single sharp photo). One of the most unusual yet useful on a digital camera is the one which blurs the background of your picture. Very effective portraits are possible with this mode in almost any situation. The focus is also very versatile with several different modes depending on the subject.

Movies are also really good. 1080p looks sharp with vivd colours and the sound is not too shabby either from the top located microphones. No longer is a separate video camera required whilst out and about. Pictures taken during video filming are also of very high quality although it does take quite a while to write them to the disc and they are in 16:9 format.

I do have a few "buts" though. Although the camera turns on quickly there are often frustrating delays when you don't want them. Changing mode is one I have already mentioned but the camera also insists on displaying the image after you have taken it and you are unable to take another picture until it has gone. When in multi shot mode there is also a long delay while it writes the images taken to disc. I tried the fastest memory card I had - a SanDisk Extreme - but it made no difference. There is software located on the camera for PC users which I am unable to review as I use a MAC. Sony's comedy support for us Apple users is a hyperlink on the internal disc to a site which says to use iMovie and iPhoto. Genius!

The biggest but though is the picture quality. Fantastic features and an amazing lens along with excellent build quality and Sony have teamed all of that up with a below average image processor. In anything but bright sunlight the images take on an almost cartoony quality when viewed on anything bigger than the camera screen. My £70 Canon Powershot produces far better pictures than this in every aspect other than the zoom. This has been a fault with every Sony camera I have owned (and as a follower of the latest technology that is quite a few!) and it is about time they realised that a great lens and features mean nothing when teamed with a poor CCD.

There are many reasons to buy an SLR digital camera and there are many reasons to buy a compact digital camera. This device is a great compromise between the two. However it is let down by the picture quality so for me it has the disadvantages of a compact in that the picture quality is no where near as good as an SLR and also the disadvantage of an SLR in that you can't pop it in your pocket whilst out and about.
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Camera was fine when it arrived, but disappointing that all the instructions were in Chinese and recharging lead came with a non-UK plug. Read more
Published 10 days ago by John
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, better for experienced.
Let me start off by saying I received this camera almost a week ago as a gift. At first I thought not a Sony. When it comes to cameras, one expects Nikon, Canon or Fujifilm. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Jak21
3.0 out of 5 stars probably a good camera...
but big .......... it sits at home while I take a very small shirt pocket camera with me wherever I go..
Published 24 days ago by Mr B M Bellamy
3.0 out of 5 stars Great quality of picture
The menu is however really difficult to understand.
The product is very light and easy to use, when you have managed to find how to use it!
Published 1 month ago by Nathalie Lemer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great all rounder
After using quite cheap point and shoot cameras for many years, I decided I'd treat myself to something better. Read more
Published 1 month ago by GaynorV
5.0 out of 5 stars Just the best for the price
This is a great camera for an upgrader or a long time SLR user who is fed up with carting heavy and not oftern used lenses around. Read more
Published 2 months ago by M W EVERTON
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Camera disappointing pixels
I bought one of these from a high street store for slightly more than the Amazon price, and instantly loved the handling. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The camera witch I have dreamed with
Because I trust in the brand, and because I was looking for this kind of two in one camera, nice and sharp photos good movies too. Also a good price. Read more
Published 2 months ago by joao m. ribeiro
1.0 out of 5 stars Sony Cyber-shot HX200V
Bra! det är bra camera jättebra bilder. bra pris och passar viedo är bra och snabbt donlowd. sony är bra märke
Published 3 months ago by Rafaqh
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sony it does what it says on the tin , nothing more to say FANTASTIC camera everything i hoped for and more great zoom great features !!!!!
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