Manufacturer's Description
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 Black Digital Camera
Make your digital still images as vibrant as your life. Sony?s Cyber-shot DSC-H50 digital camera offers imaging quality with Double Anti-Blur Solution and 15x Optical Zoom. Its scratch resistant body with UV hard coating, is equipped with an impressive 9.1 Megapixel Super HAD CCD imager and the precision of the Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens.
Product Specifications for
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 Black Digital Camera
| Image Quality |
| Max Vertical Image Resolution |
2592 pixels |
| Maximum Video Capture Resolution |
640 x 480 (VGA) |
| Number of Resolution Modes |
8 |
| Image Stabilization |
Optical |
| Video Capture Format |
MPEG-1 |
| Image Format |
JPEG |
| Maximum Frame Rate |
30 frames/s (fps) |
| Max Horizontal Image Resolution |
3456 pixels |
| Lens Features |
| Max Zoom |
30 X |
| Min Aperture |
2.7 1/f |
| Min Focus Distance |
0.4 in |
| Digital Zoom |
2 X |
| Focus Features |
Auto Focus|Face Recognition Auto Focus|Manual Focus|Multiple Point Focusing|Spot Focus |
| Min Focal Length |
5.2 mm |
| Optical Zoom |
15 X |
| Lens Mount |
Fixed |
| Max Focal Length |
78 mm |
| Reference |
| Warranty Information |
1 Year Limited Warranty |
| URL |
http://www.sonystyle.com |
| Shutter Performance |
| Maximum Shutter Speed |
4000 1/x sec. |
| Minimum Shutter Speed |
30 sec. |
| Image Processor |
| Image Sensor Quantity |
1 |
| Number of Image Sensor Pixels |
10300000 |
| Image Sensor |
Super CCD |
| Image Sensor Size |
0.435 in |
| Dimensions |
| Weight |
14.6 oz |
| Depth |
3.4 in |
| normalized-Weight |
14.6 |
| normalized-Installed Memory |
15 |
| Width |
4.5 in |
| Height |
3.2 in |
| Other Features |
| Power Source |
DC Input|Lithium Ion Battery |
| LCD Screen Size |
3 in |
| General Features |
Pictbridge Support|Self Timer |
| Included Components |
Cables - Audio/Video|Cables - USB|Carrying Strap|External Battery Charger|Lens Cover|Lens Hood|Microphone|Remote Control|Speaker |
| Interface Connection |
USB - Universal Serial Bus|Video - Out (Unspecified) |
| Flash Characteristics |
Built-in Auto Flash|Flash Cancel (Off)|Red-Eye Reduction|Slow Speed Sync |
| General |
| Crutchfield |
Yes |
| Merchants (Images) |
Electronic Imaging |
| Exposure Controls |
| ISO Equivalencies |
100|1000|1600|200|3200|400|80|800 |
| Exposure Compensation Range (±) |
2 EV |
| Number of Scene Modes |
8 |
| Exposure Settings |
Aperture Priority|Auto Exposure|Manual Exposure|Multiple Program Modes|Shutter Priority |
| White Balance |
Auto|Preset Modes |
| Metering Characteristics |
Center-weighted|Multi-Segment|Spot |
| Storage |
| Memory Type |
Internal Memory|Memory Stick Duo|Memory Stick PRO Duo |
| Installed Memory |
15 MB |
Most recent User Reviews for
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 Black Digital Camera
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Reviewed by: fabijw
07-31-08
Duration of ownership:
2
Months
Strengths: Great zoom, Good night shot
Weaknesses:Wide angle lens is awful. Picture shows big shadow caused by flash. There is no aux to attach separate flash-not included on H50's. $150 lens made especially for this camera makes camera useless for interior designers and interior pic with flash.
Overall Evaluation: Very upset. Sony unwilling to to assist.
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Reviewed by: sravanvarma
08-15-08
Duration of ownership:
1
Weeks
Strengths: Greatest picture quality even in dark, unusual zooming facility
Weaknesses:A little bit heavy, but will not be a problem
Overall Evaluation: I bought this DSC-H50 recently. I love my camera. Greatest image quality, unmatched zooming ability. Simply to say... I feel proud to own this camera!!
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Reviewed by: suredeal25
07-08-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Powerful Zoom and great picture quality
Weaknesses:None
Overall Evaluation: This is a great camera with larger zoom and three inch display. i like the pop up flash and pictures are great especially out door. even though it looks big, its very handy. i bought this camera considering SLR. so far i am very happy about the camera.
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Reviewed by: CelinaRob
07-01-08
Duration of ownership:
80
Days
Strengths: Great zoom, great picture quality, easy to use, and tilting screen
Weaknesses:none that I have found so far!!
Overall Evaluation: I bought this camera in April. I upgraded from an older version. DSC-H1. I am in love with this camera. It is a wonderful camera. I had considered going to SLR, but decided that this camera did everything I wanted and more so I bought it. I have had a few months to play with it and I love it. The zoom is great. The picture quality is wonderful even in VGA. It is by far worth every penny I paid. I take many photos every year, about 5000. I take my camera every where with me.
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Reviewed by: digitaldavincimama
06-29-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Absolutely great flash. Super long lasting batteries.Great for taking pictures of fast moving objects :-)Great pictures in low light conditon and super night shots.
Weaknesses:So far so nothing.
Overall Evaluation: So far I had quite few digital cameras including Sony Mavica, older model Cyber-shot, Kodak and Casio exlim.I used to buy them for different reasons but always trying to keep the highest pixel number I could afford as in the past you really needed few good pixels to take a decent picture especially for print.Nowdays anything with 5 Megapixel and up will give you decent enlargement up to letter size photo so current market pretty much covers nicely with even lover end cameras quality of photos. All of them are pretty much 5 Megapixels and up averaging 7 or so.Then of course medium that you are taking pictures matters as it might make a difference which brand you intend to use and what kind. This alone might influence the camera choice.Finally optics do matter in final result so I tried different ones and I found it to be very interesting factor.Nowdays my priorities shifted greatly. As a mom, as soon as I started taking pictures of my baby I noticed that for this purpose non of the cameras I had would do the trick. It was entierly different world of challenges to take a picture of a baby who changes the expression every milisecond and with a delay between pressing a release in your camera and actually taking picture enough time passed to have the baby end up in the opposite room, let alone go through seven different facial expression inbetween.I was more and more frustrated. For a while I have been looking for camera that would be good enough for my very purpose. It quickly turned that for what most users was enough for me was just the beginning. So.. number of pxels.. yeah, as much as important as not sufficient..It was most cruicial to have a camera that would be able to take picture of fast moving objects and that would not cost as much as small car.I decided that for under $500 there was literarly none.And then Sony came up with this puppy. I jumped into specs and was soo joyful. That was it. It was purfect for my purpose. We arrived!What are most fascinating and useful features from my perspecitive and for my purpose of baby/toddler photography:-Fast picture taking-Opiton of continous shooting-Great close ups-Fantastic flash that has so many setting optionsthat are enough for even discriminating userto find one that works perfect in every light condition-takes fabulous pics at night, ever tried to take pictures of moon with other digital cameras? ha ha ha..try this one finally! the same goes to shots in the city by night. Yeah, you see actually things in the bacground elements.. homes.. trees.. stuff..as opposed to just the darkness!- excellent image stablization, no more blurry pics!-15 times optical zoom! yes. this is what you want. forget the digital, it never matters, optical is what you need and what you have! and I promise you nothing else in this price comes close! this is the stuff SLR's are made of :-)- how about incredible face detection!- and how about the smile detection - set it and never miss smile on any face :-)- pivoting lcd screen is amazing. on the top of being nicely readable in sunny day it lets you change the angle to ensure even greater dependability in bright light condition.. plus of course you can hold your camera way up or sideways and adjust the lcd screen so you can still see what you are actually shooting.- did I mention it can take up to 16 GB memory stick?yeah. if you are picture taking nut like me that will set you free from changing medium constantly for about oh lets say.. week? okay, but seriously.. it is easy math..just count how many pics you want to take at 9 mp eachand then take 16 gigs and divide by that number and you are all set! It really should last you a while :-)- do you worry that it is only 9Mp since there are some that have 10 and up? don't. Rest assure that 9 MP will take you where you want to be. You can make easily fantastic enlargement of even poster size if you fancy, yeah. and how often do you do them anyways?of course for small pictures the 9 got you covered just fantastically.So you got my prespective pretty much covered. I love this camera as I wanted something really reliable that oculd preserve the memories. I was desperate to search among digital SLR's that were twice or three times the price at minimmum and offered the same what this camera came to offer so it was just perfect timming for me.It is smaller at the same time and small enough to be carried around, althoug bukly enough not to do it everyday. I keep it for at- home picture taking and in the park and special occassions. It covers my needs in that area. For my diaper bag I need somethng smaller as I never leave home without one.. camera it is :-) as I forgot the diaper bag once but never the camera! :-)So.. yeah... I wil get probably another sony or.. Kodak of the smaller puppies to carry around with ability to quickly draw it from a pocket or bottom of the bag.
Review:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50 Digital Camera
Its Carl Zeiss telephoto lens and manual features are strong, but the focus-lock is erratic, and startup is slow.
Sony's new Cyber-shot DSC-H50 has some outstanding features. But it also has a few kinks that may or may not hang you up, depending on how picky you are about certain functions.
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