It is very handy, fits in your shirt pocket and looks really classy! Switching on and ready in 1.3 seconds! Have the DSC P200 now 4 weeks - almost 1000 images shot and the battery to only 3x loaded - incredible! About 90% of the images are crisp and sharp, whether in the house or outdoors. Simply everything set to Auto and losgeknipst. The supplied 32MB Memory Stick is ridiculous - have equal exchanged it against a 512er per. Works perfectly - about 140 images in 7, 190 at 5, 310 at 3 and 750 at 1 megapixel. Since the memory supplied by other manufacturers also usually very lean fails, I count it not as a devaluation. The video function with 640x480 resolution 30 frames / sec is time limited only by the amount of memory. The recordings (picture and sound) are really excellent! 3x optical zoom has so each camera in this price range, but with Sony, there are in addition to the digital zoom and the Smart Zoom (see description) .For example one can at a resolution of 3 megapixels 4.5 times and at 1 Megapixel 7.2 fold back in. There is almost no different style optical zoom! Normal digital zoom is bad and unnecessary in this camera. I hope I could help a bit with the agony of choice ;-) Would not this camera buy at any time!
