In early 2005, Sony launched the first in its new H-series of digital cameras, marking their return into a market segment from which they'd been conspicuously absent -- the long zoom digital camera. The H1 proved popular, and at the Spring 2006 Photo Marketing Association tradeshow the company launched two new cameras to follow in the H1's footsteps: the Sony DSC-H2 and DSC-H5.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 offers a sensor resolution of seven megapixels along with a new Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 12x optical zoom lens with 58mm threading and Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization. Other features include ISO sensitivity from ISO 80 to 1,000, a choice of both aperture- and shutter-priority plus a fully manual mode, 32MB of internal memory, and a three-inch LCD display. Battery life is rated at 340 shots... [read more]