Sony HX400V Compact Digital Camera with 50x Optical Zoom, Black

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Pros

Best feature seems to be the stabilization at high zoom because my hand held pics are very clear. Being a bridge camera you’re able to use this camera in aperture priority mode, shutter priority, and manual mode.

The zoom is incredible and makes up for all of its shortcomings. The electronic view finder helps when the light is shining on the lcd screen and also has better resolution than the lcd. In fact the bird photos really show how well the zoom works as w... Read More

Will buy an external charger to keep going. Reason is all cameras can get a glitch at any time. Eats battery especially if u use flash.

Cons

Returning mine. It’s being deleted. The button below is not for agreeing or disagreeing. It is for returning the camera.

Live photography depends on quick reflexes. Superior auto setting is incredibly slow. This completely eliminates the fun of editing after you shoot either in illustration or watercolor mode. It is extremely difficult to operate and after each shot it ... Read More

Both cameras have been sent in for repair 2 times each to repair this same defect. After a number of calls to sony with no solutions or suggestions on solving the problem, except resetting to factory settings, which we have done at least 6 times the p... Read More

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Quality

Best feature seems to be the stabilization at high zoom because my hand held pics are very clear.

Very light wieght sony is known for great video quality .

In searching for a possible solution i have discovered that this is a common and mostly unrecoverable fault in the focus/stabil... Read More

I have had the sony cyber-shot before and it lasted years, but nothing lasts for ever and it was time to buy new.

Price

This is a great camera for the money.

As always the ziess lenses are worth the price.

I have seen repair cost claims of $200 and more recent information indicating repair parts are not readily available.

Overall, the price is good for what you get.

Packaging/appearance

Bought this bundled in 2016; added a circular polarizer to that package.

Competitiveness

If not i will sadly move on to a different camera in the sony line or possibly even to a different brand.

A lot of people are expecting the image quality from this camera to be comparable to the quality you get from a dslr, but that cannot be.

Hoping that sony will make an hx500 someday with 4k and higher mp point and shoot camera.

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This product had a total of 433 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 9 2024.