Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX20

It's easy enough to access the top-level adjustments-image quality, flash, exposure compensation, macro, and self-timer-plus the Cyber Shot DSC-W70's handful of scene modes.

Its body is compact and lightweight considering its long zoom and wide-angle lens.

The 8-megapixel camera uses a 35mm-105mm equivalent, f/2.8-5.2 lens, giving it a standard 3x zoom range.

While blues and reds maybe aren't as accurate as other colors, they're still nice looking with all colors turning out bright and vivid.

While blues and reds may not be as accurate as other colors, they are bright and vivid.

Minimal control buttons-flash, macro, self-timer, image size/delete, and display-on the rear of the camera are comfortably arranged.

Overall, the camera's JPEGs look solid up to ISO 400 and acceptable through ISO 1600, depending upon scene content.

Noise is minimal at ISO 80 and ISO 100 and becomes noticeable at ISO 200.

You can choose between multipattern and spot metering and change ISO manually to ISO 100, ISO 200, or ISO 400 settings.

Image quality is impressive, with nice color accuracy and accurate exposures that tend to preserve shadow detail at the expense of highlight detail when forced to compromise.

If you don't fall into that category, Sony's added simple sliders for brightness, hue, and saturation, so you can tune them to your liking.

The photo quality from the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is very good to excellent, though it really depends on your needs and expectations.

The camera is capable of consistently nice snapshots, particularly outdoors in daylight, mostly because it produces bright and natural and fairly accurate colors up to ISO 800.

If you want to take more control, Program Auto lets you adjust ISO, white balance, autofocus points, light metering, and exposure values.

That's not to say this Sony doesn't give you some control; the Program Auto lets you adjust ISO, white balance, autofocus points, light metering, and exposure values.