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First Look: Sony's powerful, but expensive point-and-shoot

2012-04-13
hey there I'm Josh Goldman senior editor with cnet and this is a look at the sony cybershot DSC tx200 V barely more than a half an inch thick the TX 200v features an 18-megapixel exmor r backside illuminated sensor an internal 5x zoom lens and a 3.3 inch ultra high resolution oled touchscreen it's also waterproof to 16 feet as well as dust proof and freezeproof to 14 degrees Fahrenheit it also has built-in GPS and a lot of snapshot shooting options and it can capture 1080 60p HD movies all in all a very well appointed ultra compact however and this is a pretty big however well it's photos are good it's movies are good and it's generally a pretty quick camera there's just one thing I can't get past it's its price tag which is five hundred dollars but for that much money it really seems like it should do something more I don't know maybe like dispense bacon I don't know not you'd want to use bacon around this anyway because it picks up fingerprints like crazy and there's also this door on the bottom battery compartment just seems a little in substantial for keeping water out so yeah this is probably one of the most powerful point and shoots for its size you're going to find but Sony's really making you pay for it I'm Josh Goldman and that's the sony cyber-shot tx200 be
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