This week we’re going back to the compact digital camera well, so we’ll lead right in with a very solid model from Sony that’s not even going to cross your eyes real hard on price.  Today we’re talking about the Sony DSCTX1/H, and there’s plenty to talk about.

The Sony DSCTX1/H is a ten megapixel digital camera with 4x optical zoom and complementing 8x digital zoom, a three inch touch-screen LCD display, optical image stabilization, face detection technology, a variety of scene and white balance modes, nine point autofocus, a sweep panorama mode for easy panorama shooting, USB port, auto flash, HD movie capability, eleven megs of onboard memory with support for Memory Stick Pro Duo memory cards, a burst shooting mode for motion shooting, and direct printing capability.

There’s good and bad here alike–while there are plenty of options to discuss, a 4x optical zoom seems better suited to a cell phone than to a digital camera.  But then, digital cameras have always had pretty short range zooms.  The digital zoom augmentation does help but it still looks to be less than fifty feet by my admittedly wide estimation capability.

And considering that the folks out at Best Buy want two hundred fifty dollars for it–and that’s a sale price, no less–there’s a bit of a problem here on the value side of things, but it’s not too far removed from expectations.

The Sony DSCTX1/H isn’t the best camera on the market, but it will do a pretty fair job for the money you shell out.  I’m not impressed, but I’m not really unhappy with it.

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