Sony Cyber-shot W200

On paper the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W200 promises to be one of the more interesting compacts around for the keen shutterbug. Ultimately, however, it's let down by a combination of poor image quality, mixed responsiveness and strange implementation of some key features. The 12 megapixel sensor may give you bags of resolution to play with, but it comes at the cost of noisy images at the slow speed of ISO 200 and quite a lot of unwanted chromatic aberrations. The optical a... Read more

Despite the limited range, it's smooth enough as it zooms back and forth. Distortion is a little higher than we expected, with noticeable barrel distortion at the wide angle but we took some shots pointing directly at the sun and were rewarded with minimal lens flare and no colour fringing, even around a silhouetted figure - an amazing performance from a small camera. Read more

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W200 Digital Camera Review

Great Accessories Sony have created a great range of optional accessories to complement the Sony Cyber-shot W200’s fantastic features, including Wide and Tele conversion lenses (VCL-DH0737 and VCL-DH2637), spare Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries (NP-BG1), and a Marine Pack so you can take photos up to 40m underwater (MPK-WB). Place the camera on the optional docking station (CSS-HD1) to display your images on an HD slideshow, whilst the station charges your camera. Read more

The Sony DSC W200 is a stylish digital camera. Just on the large size for fitting in a pocket easily it also has some basic manual exposure controls. The 12 megapixels are also likely to prove attractive. Read more

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W200

, which was the first compact digital camera to sport a 10-megapixel sensor. Inevitably every other major camera manufacturer (except, notably, for Fujifilm) quickly followed suit, not wanting to be left behind in the marketing race, and pretty soon every brand’s flagship compact was a 10MP model. Read more