What's this? Overall score is based mainly on image quality, the presence of useful features, battery life, and weight. Displayed scores are rounded; models are listed in order of precise overall score.
Sony offers innovations at relatively high prices. Cyber-shot compacts and subcompacts offer distinctions such as touch screens and sleek bodies. The W and WX series are budget lines. At the high-end are H and HX series compacts, and premium T and TX series subcompacts. Sony has expanded its SLR series significantly and offers cameras for every advanced camera user and budget, including models that have very large, full-frame sensors and special features, such as a High Dynamic Range (HDR) feature. It also has a wide range of lenses. Its SLR-like NEX series models include key SLR features, such as interchangeable lenses, but will have the small size and weight of a point-and-shoot. Sony has 3D technology on select basic and advanced cameras but it is limited to its special panorama models.