Vacation cameras

[Niner]

I like the digital kind for vacations and pocket carry. Lots of sharp auto focus and exposed photos that I don't have to develop and easy to assemble images and videos on my computer. My weakness for years has been for Sony pocket cameras with long zooms as my number one all around choice. Here is my battery of pocket Sony digital cameras.

They include RX100, HX50V, HX20V, HX99 and HX80. The 99 and 80 have the advantage of an eye view window that scales to zoom range and both are 18.2 Megapixel cameras. The 50 and 20 don't have the view window, only the screen image, but can add gps location and have 30x zoom. The 50V has slightly more pixels at 20.4 to the 18.2 of the HX20. The RX 100 has the shortest zoom but a X2 larger sensor and 20.2 Megapixels.

My actual favorite is the HX80. It's biggest advantage over the newer model HX99 is that it uses a standard SD card instead of one of those mini cards that are hard to handle and often don't make a good connection when just casually inserting them. The pop up view windows in the 80 and 99 are hands down better than just the view screen on bright days outside. Various programs on all of the cameras help the quality of various resulting images.....like sunsets vivid colors.