So Sony can generally be counted on to put out a good quality camera at a halfway decent (if sometimes a bit too high for its own value) camera, and I found that the Sony W370 is definitely in line with that concept–a good quality camera, at a little higher price than you might well expect, but even a dedicated cheapskate like myself won’t balk at these prices.

The Sony W370 is a fourteen megapixel camera that offers a 7x optical zoom and a supplementary 2x digital zoom, image stabilization, face detection, a variety of scene and white balance modes, nine point autofocus, burst shooting mode, a selection of flash options, MP4 movie shooting capability, Sweep Panorama mode, easy shooting mode, in-camera editing tools (along with editing software), dynamic range optimizer, nineteen megs of onboard memory, and direct printing.

You might well balk at the idea of paying two hundred and fifty bucks for a digital camera, but I can say pretty plainly that it’s a good value.  How can I say that, you wonder?  It’s really not as hard as you might think.  First, it’s a high resolution camera for a simple point-and-shoot.  Sure, there’s higher, but they’re specialty tools that cost like it.  And this sucker comes with a lot of interesting options that I very seldom see with a digital camera.  The range isn’t the longest I’ve seen, but it’s certainly above average (almost twice above average, really–most times I never see much higher than a 4x zoom, and this is seven.), and the controls are fairly simple to learn.

Sure, the price tag is a little on the high side, but you will get plenty of nifty bells and whistles to go with it, and lots of tools that I just plain old don’t see anywhere else.  So that’s a definite endorsement for the Sony W370, a camera that gives you every bit you pay for.

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