Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5
A 10x optical zoom travel camera with a decent lens, built in GPS facility and intelligent Sweep Panorama as comfortable taking in the wonders of the Himalayas as the local shopping precinct; what's not to enjoy about Sony's HX5? The manufacturer's asking price isn't off-putting either, being a very reasonable match for the feature set Full review
Cameras with big zooms yet handily pocket sized bodies - colloquially known as "travel zooms" - are being pumped out by manufacturers at a rate of knots, with recent recommended examples to be found amongst Panasonic's TZ series and in Canon's PowerShot SX210 IS .
The trade off in each case is that a longer internally folded lens necessitates a slightly broader depth than less ambitious 3x or 5x zoom compacts. And here a 10x optical zoom - providing a 25-250mm equivalent focal range in 35mm film terms - gives rise to the Sony Cyber-shot HX5's overall dimensions of 102.9 x 57.7 x 24.6mm and a weight of 170g excluding battery and card.
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▲ 25 250mm 十倍變焦 G 鏡 最大光圈值為 f3 5 5 5 雖然不算大光圈 卻因此縮小體積 ▲ 模式轉盤有夜間手持模式 藉著 Exmor R 背照式 CMOS 達到高感度 低雜訊的優異夜拍效果 iSweep 智慧型全景模式 在 機身上的模式轉盤 我們
▲機頂具有立體聲收音麥克風 ▲ 25 250mm 十倍變焦 G 鏡 最大光圈值為 f3 5 5 5 雖然不算大光圈 卻因此縮小體積
▲ 搭載 GPS 以及 10 倍防震鏡頭的字樣 ▲機頂具有立體聲收音麥克風
▲支援一掃全景相 ▲橫向移動就完成拍攝 比起其他相機的駁相方式來得方便