User:Victormwilson

Just about the moment you believe you have seen the ending of the present crop of digital ultrazooms, up pops the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 (henceforth the "H50"). The camera was pronounced near the end of February but did not send until May, so it is a comparatively recent entrance to the party whose guests include Panasonic, and Fuji, Nikon, Olympus - at least at the truly large end.

The Sony can outrange Canon's 12x offering, although it brings a comparatively small 15x Carl Zeiss lens into a market section where those four other men are carrying 18 or 20x lenses. In any event, while the Sony mightn't be quite as broad or as long as the majority of the contest, let us see the way that it measures up.

There is a prosperity of other characteristics integrated in the H50 including an infrared Night Shot ability, dynamic range optimization, varying noise reduction, scene recognition that is intelligent and grin and face discovery technology.

KIND, FIT, AND FEEL The H50 is not atypical for cameras in this group, resembling a miniature DSLR.

Styling and Construct Quality The H50 features mostly composite body and a metal - the plastics are the average with this market section of camera, which seems to be nicely constructed.

The very first thing I noticed with the H50 is how "active" the body is - there are buttons or controls everywhere around the top and rear of the camera.

The deep handgrip percentage of the body is performed in a rubbery stuff that I'd favor a bit more tacky to help boost the hold, but the form is good.

I'd problem that is on-going when holding the camera in a single hand with accidentally zooming the lens. Directly under the thumb of the right hand lies, plus it had been not difficult without understanding it, to zoom. There were no issues when utilizing the camera with both hands, as well as the zoom button is nicely set for use while shooting, but only taking the camera about and getting the lens not be where I "left" it became annoying.

I also had an inclination to hit multiple targets when using the control button -it simply wasn't short enough to activate without frequently hitting one (flash, self timer, macro or screen) situated around it.

Screen/Viewfinder The H50's 3.0-inch LCD monitor has a 230,000 pixel makeup and was one of the better computer screens I have come across on a streamlined digital camera (the other was a 3-inch version as well, which is likely important).

Fine for picture review in lighting that is great, it was really pretty useable for composition in outside lighting conditions that are direct. The computer screen could be tipped away and upward from the camera body to assist with shooting angles that are challenging.