After taking 5000+ photo's in all 4 seasons, here is my review.Nice camera with a few positives and a few negatives. Positives are:-> Nice panoramic photo capability.-> Lightweight.-> Optical stabiliser works very well.-> Solid design of camera body. Feels like it will survive a long time.-> Wide angle lense is brilliant.-> Vivid colours in sunny conditions (especially a blue sky).-> Very high quality HD video (approx 7GB space required per hour or 120MB per minute).-> Variable digital onscreen markers help you to get focus on correct area's and to get photo straight/central.-> The camera sensor is very good. Every pixel seemed to count when taking photos that required many small details (e.g the figurines on a cathedral, etc).Negatives are:-> Camera generally struggles with scenes where there are varying light levels (e.g inside a room with light coming through the window). The bright parts of the picture are over saturated with no detail.-> Overpowering flash. Makes things look too bright in my opinion. The flash also activated when I least expected it to. The flash came on in relatively bright outdoor shots.-> The camera sometimes struggles to get correct focus (when the flash is required) if there are any bright lights in the area where the photo is being taken.-> Seems to be virtually no jpeg compression. You can take a virtually black photo and the picture will still be 3MB+. Then you take it home and save it in applications like paint-shop-pro and get a file size of 500k.-> Lack of digital zoom.-> Camera struggled on pictures which contained bright white snow and dark greens. The picture looked black and white.-> Generally the camera seemed to work much better in bright conditions. In gloomy weather the pictures were not as sharp or contain as much detail.-> I found (before taking a photo) I had to point at things for several seconds before the camera finally settled on a reasonable automatically selected camera setting. I couldn't simply point and shoot quickly and expect a good photo. This is not a major

Purchased this camera since it was on an offer and I needed an update from my now near 6 years old cybershot. It's a significant improvement from my old camera, but i cant help but feel it is far from perfect:- This camera hits one bar on its battery life in less than an hour of continuous use :(- 'Auto-rotate' of photos only rotates for display on the camera (pointless) and not the actual files, so I 'still' need to rotate them myself once loaded onto the PC. Thankfully, can turn this off.- Panoramic sweep is a nice feature, but a bit hit and miss with its results.- Background defocus is a nice feature, but is also hit and miss with its results. Lack of manual focus point.- 3D photos i am unable to view, so cant really comment. But seeing there is glasses-less 3D technology now, it would have been nice to see this sort of tech on a camera offering 3D photos.- Lack of full manual control.- Long waiting period between photos when using any of the special features.But On the plus side:+ Excellent quality in low light and good image stabilisation.+ 10 photos a second burst is a nice touch,+ Videos are excellent. Only been recording in the lowest quality setting and the results are still great.Overall, there are better cameras out there, but this wont let you down - until the battery dies.

End of line... They have been discontinued to make way for a new model coming in March. Sony Centres are selling these for £170!!!!

Coming from a DSC-N2 this camera tends to be a little annoying in that it tries too darn hard to be smart!I have found it virtually impossible to take two pictures in a row and get the same result, tilt the camera just a little whereby the light changes however subtle and you will find yourself with two entirely differente exposures.Picture quality however is absolutely stunning, and the camera's abillity to take panoramic shots is gorgeous.At first I missed the touch screen interface of the DSC-N2 but have got used to the wheel/button interface of the DSCWX5 pretty fast, however a minor pain point I found was that to review pictures the camera always has to open/extend its lense, there is no way to jump into Playback without it.