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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20 user reviews and ratings

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20 user reviews Date: 2009-08-17 - 10:46:54 Author: GerryF Rating:    I needed a point and shoot that I could take with me instead of hauling my Mark III around to amusment parks, etc.. Well let me just say this is the best point and shoot I've own yet. I upgraded my DSC-P10 after 5 years and it was worth it. The image quality great for a point and shoot. I keep the ISO at 80 and let the flash brighten up the room if I'm indoors. The camera has excellent low light performance. I bought a canon point and shoot first, but returned in the same day after very poor low light performance. The flash is slightly larger than a regular point and shoot and the result is excellent images. I can't say enough about this camera. I am very pleased. Date: 2009-09-08 - 11:52:57 Author: DrHorton_1 Rating:    It was a toss up between the H20 and the HX1. My friend purchased the HX1 and I got the H20 and I'm glad I picked the H20! The images from the H20 are much cleaner and have far less purple fringing. The H20 is much smaller than the HX1, but the HX1 has twice the zoom. I think 10x optical zoom is sufficient for what I use my camera for. The 720p movie mode is excellent and you can use the optical zoom during movies! It even has a low light setting which brightens up the videos in dim light without adding much grainyness. The specs here on DP Review doesn't mention a manual white balance, but the H20 does have it and it works excellent in tough lighting conditions. Problems My only real complaint about the H20 is the lens cap. I feel that Sony could have easily made automatic shutter style covers on the lens like in most of their other cameras. Powering on the camera won't push the lens cap off either. Other than that, it's an excellent camera and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for good zoom in a camera that still fits in your pocket! Date: 2010-04-16 - 08:47:35 Author: Keeper Rating:    great choice for point and shoot I owned a pink Sony Cybershot with 4x optical zoom and 7.1 MP model DSC W120 camera that took 480 x 640 video. I was looking for something with more optical zoom and 720 HD video since my camcorder no longer works and was the old-style tape kind. Tape video was also difficult and time consuming to import into a computer versus digital version. My decision was between this and the Canon SX120 (the most comparable in price) or SX20. I liked that both of the Canons took AA (two or four) batteries and a standard SD card, but the Canon SX120 still had the 480 x 640 video. So the deciding factor for the Sony over the Canon SX120 was the 720 HD video, being able to record in a more compressed format, and recording for longer periods of time. The Canon SX20's (a larger camera that is more the size of a SLR) only additional real advantage over the SX120 was the 720 HD video and 20x zoom which was important since I am using this as a camcorder right now too, BUT it is about $200 more. I still will probably get a HD camcorder (1080 instead of 720) someday so I couldn't justify this not to mention this camera wasn't really pocketable for most of the events I would be using a camera for, and it seemed like you could only record for 20 minutes at a time in a less compressed format. Although it's nice that the Canons I looked at use an SD card, you have to get at least a Class 6 (I think or better), and not all SD cards are the same quality even if they are the minimum class. Though I dislike "proprietary" cards, using a Sony memory stick will probably mean the least issues later on with video quality. The included battery pack I had in my old Sony camera is the same one this camera takes, and it lasted for a long time not to mention I'll have an extra for this camera now. It also seemed like my Nikon camera my daughter has that used AA batteries took longer to recover even though it was comparable to the Sony DSC W120 in other ways. I do wish Sony would have included the upgraded battery that displayed the time left instead of just a graphic indicator amount of battery left. I like that a separate battery charger is included so I can charge the extra battery and still use the camera. I am very pleased with the intelligent auto mode plus the manual options as well. It also captures action and low-light shots much better than my W120 model camera. It seems to reduce red eye and the glow of pet's eyes much better, and it's easier to fix if there is a problem. 10x will be enough zoom for most pictures. Video is so much clearer than the video my W120 took! It imported well into the latest version of Pinnacle Studio though I would use the video from the original card instead of copying to hard drive if you don't want to use Sony's software to transfer it. If I just copied it to the hard drive, it seemed like there were some "bad places" in the video that don't show up if I used the original video on the Sony card. It is going to take a lot more computer resources to process the 1080 so this may be a good compromise until I can upgrade my computer including adding a blu-ray burner. For now, I am downgrading the 720 video to a standard DVD anyway until I can upgrade the computer DVD drive and household DVD player to a blu-ray. The video is still much clearer than video from the 480 x 640 on a 720 HD TV that is about 42". Overall, this camera is a great all around camera that is still small enough to be portable, easy to grip, and a value packed for the price! It is a definite model to check out within this price range :-) .

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