Recommended bridge camera, even for beginners prima

In the field of photography, I would not even describe myself as ambitious, but so far as the semi-professional. That is as much as that I was looking for a camera that own as simply and without much expertise, makes good pictures. The camera should also be well above the level of a compact camera, but it is possible not in the price and volume level of a full digital SLR lenses included. In addition, I have not been looking for a camera for photo poses at meetings or the beginners' course in the adult education center. Therefore, for me the handle to a bridge camera quickly and clearly with the Sony HX400V I am fully satisfied in this segment.

With the intelligent automatic programs also the beginner can with the Sony make excellent recordings. The adjustment to the photo object and the setting to the best possible mode of all screens etc., the camera takes very quickly and far more to my satisfaction before. The continuous shooting mode with 10 recordings I find appealing and fully adequate. The autofocus and the electronic viewfinder also work very well. In particular portraits succeed very well with the camera and have convinced me of the photo quality forth. Yet a little more for Selfiefreunde, with the thread you can mount the camera also fine on an extendable handheld tripod (Selfiestange) and shoot with the self-timer pin sharp Selfies. Also the weight of the camera here you can keep it on the hand stand still relatively good.

The sharpness of the images I like generally very good, only at telephoto end is larger push a very slight decrease in edge sharpness, and a slight vignette effect determine. However, these are points with which I can live with a bridge camera with a DSLR I would certainly complain more. Otherwise, I am fully satisfied with the macro shots of Sony.

Fully convinced me have the networking capabilities of the camera with Wi-Fi and NFC. After installing the free PlayMemories Mobile app on my Galaxy S5 it is problem-free possible to connect camera and smartphone together. Connected so I can send images via WLAN to the smartphone and also control the camera from your smartphone. Incidentally, you can also compensate for the lack of touch screen of the camera and manually focus with tap on the smartphone certain pixels on the smartphone. Should it happen once the error message Can not record coming on the smartphone that is mostly because the camera is not on the simple automatic function (green symbol) is set. Once you turn the camera here to the correct setting, the remote control is working fine.

About Wi-Fi you can see the camera of course, to the PC here is the free software PlayMemories Home needed. The transfer of photos via radio is practically in a few shots, for the transmission of large amounts, but I prefer the USB cord because it's so much faster.

The battery I'm generally also satisfied. According to up to 380 shots can indeed be made so that, depending on the quality and if you turn the camera off in between, to the monitor or GPS or not. My practical experience so far is that the battery pack while I was on the road, has never been quite flat.

Supplied by the way is no external battery charger, the battery is being charged in the camera through the USB cable and the supplied AC adapter. If you use this power supply, charging takes a long time the power supply is namely only 0.5A prepared as much as a USB 2.0 port. To speed up the loading process to be as appeals of another power supply, because the data sheet can withstand the battery a maximum charging current of 1,89A. I usually invite a phone adapter with 1A, faster and still conserve battery charge. For very fast loading, I use a smart power supply that automatically adjusts the flow of current to the charging current of the battery. For traveling I also doing a Power Bank with 1A load current for safety; the USB charging cable of the camera one can eventually plug it into any USB port of a charger / power bank.

To return to the manual and the target audience: for ambitious amateur photographers, this camera is great in my opinion suitable and has everything you need for occasional shooting. But even the layman goes well with this camera, because even by the two automatic programs you can take the camera actually get started right away and make really good recordings. In addition, the great advantage of such a bridge camera is of course that one has all his tools in a compact camera always there and can very quickly take pictures with an interesting motif going on.

A few shots I've uploaded here: