Get a quick look at Sony's $500 ultracompact, the TX200V, and its two more-traditional-looking compacts, the WX70 and WX50.
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Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including keyboards, mice, USB-C docks and PC gaming accessories. In addition, he writes about cameras, including action cams and drones. And while he doesn't consider himself a gamer, he spends entirely too much time playing them.
Sony gave the Sony TX200V a reinforced glass front for no good reason other than design.
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Sony Cyber-shot TX200V
There are some physical controls on top, but everything else is handled with the touch-screen OLED display. The camera is waterproof to 16 feet and dust- and freezeproof.
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Sony Cyber-shot TX200V
The screen is 3.3 inches with a 16:9 aspect ratio. No battery was in the camera, so I couldn't see just how good the 1.2-million-dot-resolution OLED screen was.
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Sony Cyber-shot TX200V
You can see the zoom toggle just there on the top corner for the internal 5x zoom lens.
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Sony Cyber-shot TX200V
The camera is very small and lightweight and loaded with all of Sony's latest point-and-shoot technologies, including a ridiculous 18-megapixel resolution Exmor R CMOS sensor.
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Sony Cyber-shot WX70
The WX70 is for people who like their cameras to look like cameras. It is nearly identical to 2011's WX9, but with some new shooting options and enhanced low-light performance (at least according to Sony).
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Sony Cyber-shot WX70
Specs include 16-megapixel cameras with Exmor R backside-illuminated CMOS sensors, 5x f2.6-6.3 25-125mm lenses, and a 3-inch 921K-dot-resolution touch-screen LCD.
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Sony Cyber-shot WX70
Its size isn't that much different than the TX200V's, but its lens extends from the body.
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Sony Cyber-shot WX70
There's a Mini-HDMI port there on the side.
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Sony Cyber-shot WX50
The WX50 is nearly identical to WX70.
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Sony Cyber-shot WX50
In fact, the only difference--other than fewer body color choices--is its screen. The WX50 has a 2.7-inch 460K-dot-resolution LCD, and since it's not a touch screen, you get physical controls on back.
