Compare Prices : Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 - Expert Reviews

Pros: 10x zoom, slim build, lots of features, nice colour balance, fast

Cons: Noisy shots above ISO 200, pictures a touch soft

Verdict: The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 is a great ultra-zoom camera. Its compact build makes it ideal for travellers and it has a boatload of features along with capturing some fairly good shots.

Review summary: This 8 megapixel camera has a 10x zoom (38-380mm film equivalent) Zeiss-branded lens in a compact body. Like the Panasonic TZ cameras it fits the long zoom into a body that is smaller than the usual pseudo-SLR superzooms. The Sony is well-made and ...

Pros: The picture quality from the camera is generally good. The multi-zone autofocus system must be turned off for satisfactory results. If it is left on an unacceptable number of photos will be out of focus. The camera is very responsive with little or no ...

Cons: The auto white balance is poor. Photos taken in open shade may have a colour cast anywhere from magenta to orange. The LCD screen is unsatisfactory as a viewfinder and for review of images. We found that pictures that looked dreadful on LCD review ...

Verdict: This could be a camera to take on a holiday. The Panasonic TZs have the advantage of a 28mm focal length at the wide end of the zoom, which would sway us towards that camera, but the Sony is better in the image noise department, producing slightly ...

Review summary: Sony has packed an optically-stabilised Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 10x optical zoom lens and 8-megapixel imager into a compact body in its new DSC-H3 Cyber-shot camera. Small and light for a long-zoom camera, the H3 is well designed. Neither optical nor ...

Verdict: Pictures taken with the test camera were bright and sharp, with natural-looking colours and a slightly better-than-average dynamic range. The Super SteadyShot stabilisation system worked extremely well with the lens at full tele extension and also in ...

Review summary: This year, we saw new superzooms without electronic viewfinders, and the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 is one of this new breed. This 8-megapixel compact packs in the manual features, plus a long zoom lens in a camera that's smaller -- if not lighter -- than ...

Pros: 10x optical zoom lens ; small size ; optical image stabilisation ; face detection

Cons: Noisy images at higher ISOs ; no place to put your thumb

Verdict: If you don't like electronic viewfinders but want a superzoom, this Sony stuffs a 10x zoom lens and 8 megapixels into a tiny package, although image quality at higher ISOs is a bit lacking

Review summary: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H3 has pretty much everything that a high zoom SLR-like camera(it's still not a SLR, it comes with an integrated lens) should have: full manual controls, RAW mode, pop-up flash, histogram display, features like face detection and ...