The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX7 features the classic sliding front panel of the company’s T series models. Since it uses a folding optics system, the 4x zoom lens does not extend from the body. The Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens has a 35mm equivalent of 25-100mm, giving you a nice wide-angle for landscapes and portraits. Of course, we’d like more oomph on the telephoto side ...

The Sony Cyber-shot HX5V digital camera is unique for its 10.2-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, and prized for its 10x optical zoom lens in a pocketable size. The Sony HX5V's lens offers a useful 25mm wide-angle to an equally useful 250mm telephoto equivalent. The lens has a two-step aperture with an ND filter, which offers either f/3.5 or f/8.0 at wide-angle; at telephoto the ...

Over the years the Sony Cyber-shot digital camera has been a popular point-and-shoot camera, so when they announced a new Cyber-shot with a Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom wide (28mm) lens that takes photos at 12.1 megapixels and shoots 720p HD video. The camera that we looked at is part of the Sony “W” series. Like other Cyber-shots, the W290 is a compact point-and-shoot ...