I ordered the camera to replace my Panasonic TZ7. When I received the delivery of Sony HX50V (silver) almost 2 weeks ago and the camera have been unpacked, I was very shocked by the processing. I would have of such a large camera manufacturers did not expect, especially since the price at launch was still over 400.-EUR. The following points are, in my opinion, also in this price range (currently from 199.-EUR), an unreasonable demand and have led me to the HX50V returned: 1. The display-protective glass (I call it that way) is sized too thin and can bulge with very low pressure towards the display. I've only seen in absolute cheap cameras from the discounters. A good protection of technically good displays but we could not. 2. Operation: The two dials on the top are useful but very stiff and difficult to operate in terms of function. Although they are handy, but the resistance to select an item is too big. In contrast, the so-called Control-Wheel rotates too easily and the 4 pressure points are very vague, so that operating errors can hardly be avoided. As you turn the (slight) pressure which is necessary to cause a rotation of the wheels, already so large that it simultaneously also confirmed a different function. Then even the small recessed button which extends the flash. Again unnecessarily difficult to use, pressure point for such a small button too deeply in the housing. 3. The housing itself looks cheap. The front is okay (seems to be made of a Matalllegierung), but back and Bodenbereicht are probably made of painted plastic. Here I can well imagine that the color very quickly rub off and the camera can very quickly look "old". All of these problems I know from my 5 year old Panasonic not - but at her Bilqualiät me is no longer sufficient. Of course, the HX50 offers some positive features: Very good my full HD videos have fallen (significantly better than the TZ7) and the very balanced stereo recording. The battery life is, at least without GPS, perfectly adequate. The "rubber grip" I find very beneficial, the camera lies comfortably in your hand. In the photographs I have a divided opinion. The images succeed most well even with "low-light" in relation to my TZ7, but a large 20MP image file is here completely exaggerated. Even with a 4-fold magnification of a light-receiving (eg at ISO200 in wide angle) the image will / clearly shown grainy pixelated. Here again the usual problem of small travel zoom cameras. How much better would the shots well, this camera would "only" a 20 times zoom range and "only" 10MP? I have now understood: Even today there are for 200.- to 300.- EUR no compact camera that does it all, making good and this also has a robust housing. Although every amateur photographer such wishes as a second camera. I'll probably set a Nikon P340, which again 80th-EUR costs more and only a 5x wide-angle zoom features. But it forms with its 12MP CMOS sensor the subject on the very sensitive lens to the corners very homogeneous from, makes equally good videos and anything else handy. The processing should be good, but what I'm going to test myself yet.