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hey there i'm josh golden senior editor with cnet and this is a look at the sony cybershot DSC HX 200b it's Sony's highest zoom compact featuring a 30x zoom lens and actually much of the rest of the camera is the same as its predecessor THX 100b and that includes the 3 inch ultra high res LCD the barrel control of the zoom or focus and plentiful shooting options from full manual to full auto you do get some feature improvements though like gps logging some sliders for adjusting brightness color and vividness and auto modes and a bunch of picture effects to experiment with unlike competing models from Fuji film and Panasonic you won't find more advanced options like raw capture or a hot shoe for an external flash but you might not miss much of those with all that the camera can do in fact the HX 200 can be a bit overwhelming at first so you're going to want to learn all that it can do to get the best results for your needs that said photo and movie quality are excellent for this type of camera and its shooting performance is equally good with fast autofocus and almost no shutter lag totally worth considering if you're after a long zoom lens and a big body i'm josh golden and that's the sony cybershot HX 200 be