Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20
Digital Camera Review
Mar 05, 2009
- By Richard Baguley
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20 falls into a curious mid-range point in the consumer camera market. With a 10X zoom lens, it doesn't have the incredible zoom reach of some cameras. But neither does it have the sleek, thin profile of other compact cameras; it has a practical, blocky design that is more for use than show. But it does have an attractive feature set, shooting 10.1 megapixel images and 720p high definition video.
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Design & Appearance
The H20 has a rather blocky, chunky design that makes it look more like a piece of industrial equipment than a camera. But it is significantly smaller than many ultrazoom cameras, such as the Olympus SP-590UZ.
Size & Handling
The blocky design of the H20 means that it fits well into the hand; the sizeable grip gives plenty to hold onto and the shutter and zoom controls fall naturally under the hand. The mode dial is a little bit awkward, but it is possible to change modes using the thumb while holding the camera in one hand.
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The H20 fits well into the hand and is easy to hold in one
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Menu
Sony has adopted the same cross-bar menu system that many of their products use for the H20; you move up and down with the 4-way control to choose which menu item to change, then left and right to choose the setting. This does involve a fair amount of button pressing to get to some options in the program mode, but the camera restricts the list in most of the modes; in Easy mode, there are only two menu options; image size and flash.
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| The menu of the H20 uses the standard Sony cross-bar approach |
Ease of Use
The H20 strikes a decent balance between having a long feature list and being easy to use; we found that most operations were easy to do, but that you could dig in and tweak the settings if required.
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