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Review Date
June 23, 2008
Overall Rating
 5 of 5
Value Rating
 5 of 5
Used product for
More than 1 year
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Reviewed by
kurttarvis
, Professional
Price Paid
$0.00
at Gift from my brother
Photography Experience
2-5 years
, Outdoor
Summary
This little Cybershot is awesome! Packed in is 7.2 effective megapixels with 3x optical zoom and loads of features in the Scene mode.
Strengths
high resolution, great image quality, amazing flash, good in low light situations, small compact design, easy to use.
Weaknesses
nothing I can think of.
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Review Date
November 8, 2006
Overall Rating
5 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
3 Months to 1 year
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Reviewed by
stib
, Intermediate
Price Paid
$0.00
Photography Experience
6-10 years
Summary
The P200 is a competent little camera. My wife bought this camera to have something more portable than our Sony F717 and old Canon AE-1 film SLR. Long story short, both of us were very impressed with the image quality of the camera, particularly for its size and class. I found that images taken with the P200 were sharper and cleaner than those taken with my friend's comparable Canon Elph digital compact camera. There is a limited number of manual controls available - aperture and shutter priorities, which my friend's Canon compact digital camera lacked. When the images are properly exposed, there is low noise at lower ISO. At higher ISO the noise increases substantially, but no more so than other compact digital cameras. The images taken were nice enough that my mother asked to have the camera. My wife ended up replacing her P200 with the Sony T2 (which honestly does not come close in terms of image quality).
Strengths
Great image quality from a compact digital camera.
Sturdy design.
Weaknesses
Less pocketable than newer ultracompact designs
Smallish LCD by today's standards
Similar Products Used
Sony T2
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Review Date
January 9, 2006
Overall Rating
5 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
0-1 years
Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1 votes
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Reviewed by
bmadau
, Intermediate
Price Paid
$400.00
at Best Buy
Summary
I dig this little camera. At first I had to get used to it. My other camera is a DSC-F828 so I had to get un-used to what I was used to in a camera. I actually bought this for my wife as an anniversary gift, but I'm using it more than she is now! You have to understand that it's a small camera, with no lens hood, and limited user controls, but once you know when and how to use this camera it can take some pretty good pictures. I'm especially impressed with its close up flash performance. The 828's built in flash tended to blow out close up subject. The flash exposure couldn't tone it down enough. The P200 flash range is real short, but up close it absolutely rocks.
Strengths
Compact, lightweight, easy to use. Great close up performance. Very long battery life. Very fast shot to shot fora P&S. Very easy to use intuitive menus.
Weaknesses
Short flash range. Limited manual controls, but what controls are there are easy to use through intuitive menus. Long focus distances like for landscapes and such can look soft or slightly out of focus.
Similar Products Used
Sony DSC-F828
Kodack Easy Share something or other, 2mp (older)
Customer Service
Haven't had to use it.
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Review Date
December 18, 2005
Overall Rating
 4 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
1 to 3 months
Visitors rate this review
2.00 of 5, 1 votes
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Reviewed by
rongerard
, Casual
Price Paid
$80.00
at Jessops [the insuran
Photography Experience
21+ years
, Outdoor
Summary
This camera is a delight. When it works it is ideal for my purposes - apart from the limited zoom range that all compacts suffer from and unimpressive lens quality where close-ups are concerned.
It's small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, fast, accurate for exposure and focus and colour. But the barrel distortion if I photograph a book I'm trying to sell or a painting of my wife's is disturbing.
Strengths
See above.
Weaknesses
Reliability. I got this camera because my 18-month old one was considered beyond economic repair by my insurers. The lens was not retracting without physical assistance when the camera was turned off. My 3-month old replacement looks like it will very soon be doing the same - and I do not mistreat my cameras.
Similar Products Used
Sony DSC-P92
Customer Service
Don't know.
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Review Date
November 30, 2005
Overall Rating
5 of 5
Value Rating
5 of 5
Used product for
3 Months to 1 year
Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1 votes
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Reviewed by
bikemech23
, Casual
Price Paid
$400.00
at BestBuy
Photography Experience
2-5 years
, Sports
Summary
I love this camera! I researched all cameras for 4 weeks before buying. I was unbiased with brands. When I saw the features on this camera, I was sold. It's extremely fast for a point and shoot camera. Very small too. My photography is almost all action shots, and this camera does really good for being so compact. I actually held it in my hand inside my snowboard mitt taking a few runs last year!
The autofocus can be a little slow. Manual controls are pretty good. I bought a wide angle adapter, but don't use it much because it's bulky. I do a lot of backcountry mountain biking and snowboarding, so minimalist construction is important.
The 7.2 megapixel resolution is awesome! I can crop my images down and still have very high resolution shots. I think this is my favorite feature on this camera.
The camera has very good color. You can check my pics out at http://www.spudhucksters.com All the photos on the website are taken with this camera
I bought it at Best Buy and got the 4-year warranty, so as long as I don't lose it, I can get a new one if anything happens to it (which it will with the abuse I inflict on it)
Strengths
7.2 Megapixel
light and small
fast
easy to use
Weaknesses
autofocus a little slow
Similar Products Used
all my buddies have Elphs, but mine is better!
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