Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-H9 -- and its almost identical sibling, the DSC-H7 -- offers a whopping 15x optical zoom, along with an excellent flip-up LCD screen. It's perfect for shooting outdoors in daytime -- especially sport, children and animals

Pros: Relatively wide angle for a megazoom ; tonnes of manual and automatic features ; large, flip-up LCD ; fast continuous shooting

Cons: Small EVF ; lens aberrations and vignetting ; image noise and some processing artefacts ; lacks hotshoe and raw file support

Verdict: If you shoot primarily outdoors in daytime -- especially sport, children and animals -- the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9 is a great choice. The cheaper DSC-H7 has a smaller LCD, lacks infrared shooting, and has a few interface differences, but is otherwise ...

Review summary: If you shoot primarily outdoors in daytime--especially sports, children and animals--the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9 is a great choice. The cheaper DSC-H7 has a smaller LCD, lacks infrared shooting, and has a few interface differences, but is otherwise ...

Pros: Relatively wide angle for a megazoom ; tons of manual and automatic features ; large, flip-up LCD ; fast continuous shooting

Cons: Small EVF ; lens aberrations and vignetting ; image noise and some processing artifacts ; lacks hotshoe and RAW file support

Pros: Relatively wide angle for a megazoom ; tons of manual and automatic features ; large, flip-up LCD ; fast continuous shooting

Cons: Small EVF ; lens aberrations and vignetting ; image noise and some processing artifacts ; lacks hotshoe and raw file support

Verdict: If you shoot primarily outdoors in daytime--especially sports, children and animals--the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9 is a great choice. The cheaper DSC-H7 has a smaller LCD, lacks infrared shooting, and has a few interface differences, but is otherwise ...

Review summary: Expand your creative horizons with the powerful features and manual control freedom of the 8.1 megapixel Cyber-shot® DSC-H9 digital camera.

Review summary: The Sony DSC H9 has a fifteen times optical zoom lens. This is one of the largest zooms you will find on a consumer digital camera. I found the picture quality to be good and I was impressed at the way Sony managed to handle all the features to ensure ...

Pros: Length of zoom - low shutter lag - ease of use - colours - lighting

Cons: Some purple fringing - noise in my lowlight test