After some thought, and comparing I bought the Sony P 200 and am very happy with this camera. Special advantages: The extremely fast time from switching the camera to become ready for operation. Especially nice for snapshots. The shutter lag is very tidy quickly. The dimensions are so beautiful compact that you can take them into your jacket pocket or a small handbag. Overall, top quality and very good pictures, even in landscapes and flower motifs - the photos are crisp and the colors are very natural. Even night shots with the flash turned out very well. In addition to the automatic mode (which is sufficient for most images), there are numerous manual controls, in particular regarding. Focus and sharpness, this may in some subjects be quite useful. In addition, numerous scene motif settings - sea, snow, fireworks, twilight, portrait, etc. The battery lasts a long time and is charged in approximately 3 hours. Very advantageous to display the remaining battery time on the display. Good understandable menu navigation, you have the camera quickly "understood" without having to first learn the manual by heart. Well quite good video function, I have not tried yet. Now for the few points for improvement: The supplied Memory Stick is just enough for the first trying out the camera. The problem have unfortunately almost all digital cameras regardless of their company. One should immediately buy a larger Memory Stick Pro, the best course is 1 GB. Who puts more on pictures than on the video feature value for which it also does a 256 MB, almost 70 images in the highest quality can be snap so, respect. Video of the best quality, it is sufficient, but only for about 3 minutes. The Akkuaufladestecker is very "fizzlig" and other quality of the camera is not appropriate. Probably wants Sony buyers so "animate" to buy their accessories. The accompanying programs are more than thin. While almost everyone is digital camera user has anyway a decent image editing program on the computer. But a small program with respect. The video function would have been desirable, for example for cutting the videos and converting into multiple formats. Overall I give 5 points, the quality and the price-performance ratio of the camera is so good that the mentioned negative points justify no penalty. In addition, also provide its competitors on small memory cards and a video program is somehow auftreibbar. So: BUY!
