Sony H9 ready to vie for P&S digi-champ

[jimbrady]

15X stabilized zoom, 3" TILTING (though not swiveling) LCD, and Night Shot(?). 8MP.

Not quite as wide (31mm) as the 18X Oly announced a couple weeks ago, but the LCD makes me happy. Memory Stick media makes me sad.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07022705sonyh9h7.asp

[jimbrady]

[Z]

Makes you sad that you'd have to spend another $20 or 30 for 2 gigs of memory? It's not the end of the world. Hopefully, the glass is good.

[jimbrady]

Happy and sad are both relative.

[BigGuynRusty]

Why did Sony drop the CF slot that they had in their old high end camera, the F828, they have both slots.
I have several 5GB cards, that and the four batteries I can shoot 8MP photos all weekend. About 1240 photos per card.

BGnR

[Z]

True enough.

Past weekend with the now slightly older H1 -

[jimbrady]

Sweet pic, Z.

Rusty: Sony's top model still has both slots, but it's a dSLR, not a P&S.

[Z]

The R1 also has/had a CF slot. Too bad they discontinued it in the North American market.

[vision63]

Dang Z, I wish I could have been in that same spot. Great shot.

[Z]

Just to hog some bandwidth, the previous shot from last Sunday was on the top, right side, of Flattop here (from last May)-



More random shots here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachz/