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| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
Buy New: $269.92
New (10) Used (7) from $209.12
Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 7455
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 5
Digital Zoom: 5
Display Size: 3.5
Maximum Focal Length: 29
Minimum Focal Length: 5.8
Maximum Resolution: 8
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 2.3 x 0.8
MPN: DSCT200
Model: DSCT200
UPC: 027242713314
EAN: 0027242713314
ASIN: B000V5SYMK
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 76-80 of 81
 An example of form over substance! October 1, 2007
Sinclair Cohen (San Jose, California)
127 out of 146 found this review helpful
I've been using a DSC-T30 for a year, everything about this camera is just fine. But I was seduced by the beautiful look of the red DSC-T200, and its large touch screen, so bought one as soon as I could. I returned it after a couple days of playing with it.
Sony has added marginal features to the T200, but has downgraded the important basic features. The T30 has a rather large 4.4Wh battery, the T200's is a puny 2.4Wh and runs down very fast, especially with the LCD turned to its most bright setting. With the T200 you're going to have to carry spare charged batteries. This is annoying.
Worst problem is indoor 'point & shoot' photos with the camera on "Automatic," most images come out grainy and noisy. Heck, that's what an ultracompact camera is for. I don't know why this is, maybe because the flash lamp on the T200 is much smaller than the T30's flash? I open every photo I take in "Photoshop" and try to improve them, but these take too much work. Outdoor photos are better, but not totally wonderful, just OK.
The LCD on the back of the camera isn't all that great. Instead of glass (like my new iPod Touch) the T200 has a somewhat flexible plastic membrane cover which requires a pretty firm 'push' to activate. When I push it to set the focus point while taking a shot, for example, the camera moves a bit.
I've always hated having to remove the battery from the T30 to charge it, (because of the flimsy plastic cover), so was hoping the T200 might have a charging base accessory. Not. Oh, enough. I could go on. The T200 touch screen menus are very clear and simple to understand though, let me at least give Sony credit for that. And it's such a pretty camera!
 Packs enough b(i/y)te into everything that u shoot with it ;) September 28, 2007
Ankur Verma (New Delhi, Delhi India)
81 out of 85 found this review helpful
Starts up at once with no noticeable 'boot up' time. Touch screen is cool and navigation is smooth, I actually am not missing those physical buttons, not even those dials. But I wish there was a way to lock it away at times when you don't want the settings to get changed by unintended touches while shooting. You need only shutter and telly/wide buttons while shooting, right? Kids just might find it hard to operate it without disturbing the settings.
One of the things that its 3.5" screen has made possible though is that it displays a good amount of info about your shot while keeping all the setups/presets/menus available on the screen at the same time. While you are focusing, it tells you in order the shutter speed, aperture value, sensitivity and exposure value, which is cool.
Enough maneuverability with great many presets for WB (white balance), ISO (sensor sensitivity); an EV(exposure value); etc. for the professionally inclined to get the best out of this camera. In PGM mode (program mode) WB, ISO, shutter speed and aperture can be played with but they are all given in the forms of presets to choose from (with the exception of EV that's given in the form of a scale). I have a stand with me, I took some photos of far off objects using zoom to its limit, and keeping the sensitivity low (ISO 80)- a way to tell the camera to prolong the exposure, I really got good details, I think I got more that what I expected as it is not a professional camera.
Night mode worked well, but its not outstanding.
Smile shutter is an interesting feature but I found holding the shutter button pressed a bit tedious for continuous shots, if only there was a way of integrating it with timer.
Macro mode gave pretty good pictures of rather close by objects.
Back and white photographs were cool but don't expect too much. it aint flexible there as it provides no way of optimization. The grey tones are rather limited.
Sepia mode is cool so are color mode and vivid color modes.
It doubles up reasonably well as a camcorder (zooming works really well while shooting movies too), just that mic and speaker quality is a bit of an issue. It's a still camera but the length of the movie is only limited by the size of the memory and quality is great (you can choose from three quality presets, I shot the movie at Fine) which tempted me to suggest that it would actually be great if it had some sort of mic attachment provision in it. Speakers are weak too but the movie sounds well when played on TV. Its not a camcorder but the overall out come looked simply great on TV.
When you run slide show on the camera, the music is hardly audible. But you can add better quality music files to the camera from your computer.
Face detection is good, automatically focuses the faces and adjusts the exposure etc to best depict them, when multiple faces are being detected you can also touch a face to keep it on priority.
Super steady is handy but doesn't help when there is a real and unavoidable shake.
Computer and TV connectivity is painless. Movies play directly on TV or on media player.
I think the interface has been kept simple, I cribbed a bit for a while for no textual names for most of the menus but now I actually think that I would myself had turned the text names off after a while. Although the features are numerous the camera is very easy to operate just that you would need to keep the instruction manual with you for a while initially, the camera keeps you abreast of the things its doing for most purposes.
In-camera touch up software is fun. Good many frame types and clip art to chose from. You can draw on the snaps with the paint pen, but one thing that I missed while playing with a snap was `thought balloon' in the clip art. ;). Time to get creative !
With so much, the battery had to take a toll. It is sort of lagging behind. The camera promises 250 shots per charge but I don't think with so many features you would use it in a disciplined manner. I personally played a lot with it and I had to recharge it within 4 hours of fully charging it. When, however, I use it `reasonably' the battery did last long enough, there is room for improvement there still.
Overall a great camera for the price.
Amazing Camera For The Price September 28, 2007
Duc Nguyen (Sarasota, FL)
7 out of 18 found this review helpful
I just got this Sony Cybershot T200 in silver. I absolutely love it over my old Sony T100. The touch screen is awsome, smile shot very cool, 3.5 large screen. I showed it to a couple of people and they think it cost $500 bucks! You have to know how to use a Sony camera to appreciate it over say... Canon. It's the slim, fashionable, cool look, with lots of high end features that separate this from the rest.
Grainy Indoor Picks September 26, 2007
Abhishek Koundal (CA,USA)
19 out of 27 found this review helpful
Got the camera even before it hit the market through the sony website. I was very excited to get this one as T100 reviews were solid, but this one doesnt stand a chance as per its pricing. The first test i did on it for the indoor picks resulted in poor, grainy pictures. You wont see that on the LCD itself but once you transfer that to the computer and view it the actual grains and picture quality is seen. I tried all the options auto/PGM , EV, modes etc...but still the indoor pictures dont stand upto the mark. Outdoor photos are nice and crisp but all cameras can do that mostly. So if you are having party at home and this is the only camera that are using to capture the fun moments, once you transfer that on computer, your momemts may be ruined. I belive if its a point and shoot , on auto it should give quality close to the manual mode. Anyways I am returnig and again exploring the posibilites ...might be T100 or DSCN2 which I know for sure about nice indoor photos.
Great Pictures, Great Features, Cool Camera September 25, 2007
Beth G. (Prior Lake, MN United States)
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have found the LCD to be very clear. It also has a bright mode that makes it still pretty easy to see outside on a sunny day. Here are some of my favorite features:
1 - Touch focus! When setting up a shot, you can touch the screen where you want it to focus. (Functional and really cool).
2 - Widescreen LCD. You can take pictures in either the standard or widescreen aspect ratio. This provides a lot of flexibility if you edit and print yourself.
3 - Touch zoom. When reviewing photos, you can zoom in on any part of the photo by touching it on the screen.
4 - Great pictures. There are lots of features you can set to create your perfect shot. I love the white balance, and image stabalization. The out-of-the-box auto pics are great too. The images are very clear and beautiful.
This camera is great. It is small enough to take with you anywhere, it takes great pictures, and it takes advantage of new technology.
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