Good vacation camera with restrictions

Good vacation camera with restrictions

Sony DSC-HX20VB Cyber-shot digital camera (18.2 megapixels, 20x opt. Zoom, 7.5 cm (3 inch) screen, Sweep Panorama) (Electronics)

Customer Review

I have the camera now for a few weeks in operation. On the whole, I am satisfied.
-You Suits me well in hand (rather large hands), the gripping surface is very pleasant, especially when compared to the other cameras in this category.
-20x Zoom is nice to have
-very fast autofocus in the upper zoom range
-GPS Worked on holiday very quickly and reliably, often were also photos that were shot just after the re-switching tagged properly. From maybe 400 photos, only a handful had no GPS day.
Panorama mode works very well
-Very good video function
-for 'normal' viewing on a PC / tablet and standard prints, the image quality is very good
-The camera makes relatively good images actually in any situation, even in low light
-no touchscreen (I see the trend as a throwback to, depending on weather that leads to service problems)
-3D Mode is a nice gimmick, but the effect is better on the Panasonic. Tip: For me, the 3D multi-angle mode works best, the 16: 9 produces 3D images. During normal standard 3D mode I see almost no 3D effect and 3D panorama is displayed on my TV too small (50 inches Pana VT30, displays the image only once and does not scroll through the picture). But the panorama of the effect is also good, if the TV can show correspondingly large.
One should when shooting in 3D mode trying to have a staggered pattern (including objects in the foreground).

However, there are a few things to the camera, which are not so lucky.

-Zuvorderst Here is the picture quality to call. I hope that the trend of manufacturers is demnächt to larger sensors, the Megapixelwahn is now the picture quality is no longer beneficial. For normal applications but perfectly adequate. The images seen on a 24-inch PC screen with 1920 * 1200 pixels of very good, but if it is viewed at 100% magnification, the images really look like painted ("water color").
-Ladeanschluss On the bottom of the camera is in a bad position
Loading -no separate charger for the battery supplied, the battery needs in the camera (inconvenient if you want to charge a second battery while using the camera)
-Sony Supplies with only an old battery model, the new model could have InfoLithium mitliefern quiet (the camera shows the InfoLithium battery, the battery life on the screen in minutes)
-something strange continuous shooting; the camera shoots 10 images in succession (@ 10fps or @ 2fps), these stores but first in the camera buffer and pushes the finished recording to the memory card. So it is not possible to make more than 10 images in this mode before the camera takes a pause for reflection. It would be better to have a mode that saves directly on the card and allows longer continuous shooting (of course, a fast card provided).
Buttons on the back may be MMN larger and look a bit cheap compared to eg Panasonic TZ31.
-ausfahrbarer flash is in a bad position, namely where the left hand would stabilize the camera. A firmly built-in flash in the upper right corner would certainly have been possible. To me this motorized part is more like a breaking point, which is sooner rather than later give up the ghost.
-full manual only available online as a web page (not as a pdf download!)

For the weaknesses in ergonomics and image quality, there is ever a star deduction. For normal holiday / Snapshot photographing the image quality is good and the many features are very useful but can enlarge sections or print posters could be difficult given the "watercolor effect".

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