Photography Digest

The Panasonic Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V ($479) is a high-end superzoom image picture image photo photographic camera that does just about everything possible. Whether you're discussing its built-in GPS, 360 level atmosphere manufacturer, 10 fps rush getting, immediate HDR images, or 1080/60p films, the HX200V has nearly every gong and whistle ever designed. To top it off, it features the greatest awesome indication in a lightweight image picture image photo photographic camera (18 Mega-pixel, which may or may not be a awesome thing) as well as one one of the most awesome zoom capability capability capability capability ability relationships (30X).

The HX200V has some many competitors, though, from companies Cannon, Fujifilm, Nikon, and Panasonic. Is the Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V the best amazingly zoom capability capability capability capability ability image picture image photo photographic camera on the market? You're about to find out.

In some nations, a style without a GPS is also available. This image picture image photo photographic camera is known as the DSC-HX200 (without the "V").

What's in the Box?

The Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V has a rather unremarkable bundle. Here's what you'll find when you crack open the box:

• The 18.2 effective Megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V camera body
• NP-FH50 lithium-ion battery
• AC adapter
• Lens cap w/retaining strap
• Shoulder strap
• Micro USB cable
• 36 page basic manual

The Cyber-shot HX200V has a healthy amount of built-in storage area space -- 105MB to be exact. That maintains seventeen photos at the finest quality setting, which isn't bad for emergencies. That said, you'll probably want to buy an actual storage area space right away. The HX200V can handle both SD/SDHC/SDXC and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards, and I'd suggest a 4GB cards at the very minimum, and a larger cards if you plan on taking a lot of Full HD video. Buying a high speed cards (Class 6 or higher for SD cards) is the best place. If you have a Panasonic laptop that can handle their TransferJet wireless protocol, the picture photo photographic camera can handle that feature when a compatible MS Duo cards is installed.
The picture photo photographic camera uses the same NP-FH50 lithium-ion power as many other Camera accessories. This power maintains 6.1 Wh of power, which is very good for a compact picture photo photographic camera. Here's what that looks like in terms of power life:

Camera	Battery life (CIPA standard)	Battery used
Canon PowerShot SX40 HS	380 shots	NB-10L
Fuji FinePix HS25EXR	400 shots	AA (4)
Kodak EasyShare Max Z990	500 shots	AA (4)
Nikon Coolpix P510 *	240 shots	EN-EL5
Olympus SP-810UZ	190 shots	LI-50B
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150	410 shots	DMW-BMB9
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V *	450 shots	NP-FH50
* Built-in GPS Battery life numbers are provided by the manufacturer

As you can see, the HX200V's energy is second only to the Kodak. If you've got the GPS off, the HX200V should make it through a day of getting with enough to extra. If you are using the GPS, energy will certainly fall, though Panasonic doesn't say by how much. Changing off GPS determining upon will keep energy stress to a relative tiniest. If you want to choose up a extra energy, a Sony-branded one will cost around $38.

The DSC-HX200V's energy is charged inner, using the involved AC adaptor. In contrast to on some Panasonic designs I analyzed lately, asking for is fast -- it needs just 100 moments to finish up the NP-FH50. Still, if you want to cost a extra energy you'll need to buy the BC-TRV external battery energy pack inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy inventory up battery energy pack inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy inventory up inventory up energy charger (priced from $31). 

Accessories

The HX200V is very light in the accessory department. Here's all you can buy for it:

Accessory	Model #	Price *	Description
External battery charger	BC-TRV	From $31	For charging a battery outside of the camera
Leather case	LCS-HG	From $37	Protect your investment with this leather carrying case
* Prices were accurate at time of publication

No external show for you!

Sony doesn't even contain their system program on a CD-ROM cd anymore. The PlayMemories Home system is actually on the image picture picture photographic camera itself, and you can set up it by linking the HX200V into your Windows-based PC. PlayMemories Home is usually a re-skinned version of Picture Activity Web web web web browser, which does it's job quite well. Moreover to posting pictures from the image picture picture photographic camera, PlayMemories can also talk about them via e-mail, posting, and on photo/video providing websites. Modifying sources contain redeye reduce, brightness/saturation/tone improve, and sharpness. There's also an Automobile Appropriate function which tasks to fix aspects with individual generally select. You can viewpoint pictures on a map (assuming that their place was tagged), and post "assist data" to the image picture picture photographic camera, which is predicted to reduce satellite tv tv tv tv buy time.

Mac clients are staying out in the cold when it comes to image changing. The only aspect Panasonic provides is a weblink to a website that usually say 'use iPhoto instead', which isn't a bad suggestions, but unfortunately, iPhoto doesn't post GPS details information.

Long-time guests of my views know that I'm not a fan of how image picture picture photographic camera manufacturers have been skimping on printed books. While most have been putting the finish books in PDF framework on an engaged CD-ROM cd, Panasonic has gone even further -- they don't even offer a finish details. Instead, there's a weblink to their support website, where you'll find out an HTML-based details. This details is complex to get around (though at least it's searchable) and losing in both everything and user-friendliness department. Experience for the engaged system is set up onto your PC.


Source:www.dpreview.com