Purchased the new Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX200V beginning of June 2012, really impressed with the photo qualities and zoom camera features until less than a week old the camera zoom/focus, video displayed completely died on me.

The HX200V's Clear Image Zoom feature will boost the zoom power by 2X, with "close to the original image quality" using some digital trickery.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is a feature-packed super-zoom camera, offering a 30x, 27-810mm zoom lens, 18.2 megapixel back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, built-in GPS tracking complete with a compass, 1920x1080 50p Full HD video recording with stereo sound and HDMI output, and 3D Sweep Panoramas and 3D Still Images.

HX100V would let me use a little of zoom feature with macro, but with this new HX200v, it takes 3-5 seconds before it automatically macro focuses if the zoom is used a little.

The Sony CyberShot DSC-HX200V's 30x zoom lens offers an incredibly versatile focal range, as illustrated by these examples.

In not being a fashion conscious pocket snapshot - despite being the flagship unit of Sony’s High Performance compact series - the HX200V, which also incorporates built-in GPS, has its shooting advantages; chiefly the grip is larger - large enough to squeeze three fingers comfortably around - the camera, when loaded with rechargeable battery and SD or Memory Stick Pro Duo card, is heavier, plus both these features help provide a steadier hold when shooting towards the telephoto end of the zoom.

Whether you're talking about its built-in GPS, 360 degree panorama maker, 10 fps burst shooting, instant HDR photos, or 1080/60p videos, the HX200V has nearly every bell and whistle ever created.

The P510 can shoot Full HD (1920×1080-pixel) movies at 30 frames per second, with stereo sound and full use of the optical zoom.

The P510 also offers high speed and slow motion video options, which are fun to use, although small file sizes are best for Web and computer viewing.

The Sony CyberShot DSC-HX200V allows you to focus on a subject that is just 1cm away from the camera when the lens is set to wide-angle.

The HX200V will lock focus in 0.1 - 0.3 seconds at wide-angle, and not much longer at the telephoto end.

The front of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V is dominated by the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens, here boasting a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and a focal range the equivalent of a wide angle (but not ‘ultra’ wide) 27mm to 810mm in 35mm film terms - suggesting serious ‘poke’ at the telephoto end and real suitability for those paparazzi style candid portraits at full zoom, as well as of course landscapes and group portraits at the wider end.

As you'd expect, the HX200V's 30X zoom lens has an optical image stabilization system (which Sony calls SteadyShot), which reduces the risk of blurry photos in low light, or at the telephoto end of the lens.

In fact, I had to take 6 photo's of the same image with the p510 to try to get a similar quality image as the sony and it still didn't show the fine detail and color the the sony did in the first try!