Sony DSC-HX400 20.4-Megapixel Digital Camera DSCHX400/B

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First off I looked at many different cameras before settling on this one.
This is a great camera for a beginnner or a pro.
With its comprehensive menus and useful features you are garunteed to get the best possible shot.
The titling screen is perfect for getting a shot at an awkward angle.
The viewfinder is amazing and unbelievably clear.
Great for framing a shot or reviewing one.
Wifi and Nfc make sharing and posting pcitures to social media a cinch.
The 50x zoom isn’t overkill and lets you capture anything yards away.
All in all a great camera and I would definetly buy it again.

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I love this CAMERA!!! Best one i have ever owned so far in my life. I wish I had it sooner. I am not a professional but I have been taking photos for years and I love take them. There are so many setting that i am still learning the camera but I have enjoyed the pics I have taken with it so far. I just wish I knew how to get the exposure to process faster because I miss pics because it takes so long to reset after taking a photo.

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Absolutely love this camera. I have been able to capture so many great moments and memories. So easy to upload photos to my iPhone and then post on fb.

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i really love my camera it makes taking pictures much more fun .

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I bought this for my niece and she loves it. I really recommend it

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Sony Cybershot DSC-HX400V REVIEW
I just purchased this Sony 7-16-2018. I had read about the great zooming, It Is truly amazing! I mean amazing! But no one really talked about macro much. I have a little Canon Power shot SX710HS that takes the best macro pics and 30x zoom but I wanted more, so I bought a friends used Nikon P600, the zoom is great, and I got good photos on sunny days but the barrel started to stick, plus macro wasn’t as good as my Canon. So I got this Sony 400, I took this Sony out of the box and used Auto for all the flower pics in bright sun on the river bend and for the most part they were all great, but I couldn’t get focused up close on some of them. I don’t know what ISO 200, 800, Aperture etc means, when do I use those settings? I need to learn that stuff, So I used auto. One problem I had with this Sony, as soon as you turn the camera on, it wants you to set the date, I’m not sure if it’s just me but it won’t set and stay so I have to hit cancel everytime I turn the camera on. When I press cancel, it goes to a screen “go to http://www.sony.net/pm for playmemories software”. So I have to press two things before I can even begin to photograph. So let’s get to MACRO, my Canon I can zoom to a bee on a flower and see pollen on it’s legs and it is in focus. I can take a photo of just the bee, I’ve tried and tried to get that close on this camera but it loses focus each time. I got ants on a leaf (see photo) but it won’t let me zoom into the ant. I turned the ring on the camera and it would show me the ants up close on the monitor but then it didn’t capture the photo that way. Today was partly cloudy, I got great photos of a squirrel in the tree but not of birds on a feeder. I took from across the yard to behind a tree 4 feet away from the feeders. Being in the correct setting would’ve helped I’m sure. Not having a portable charger I thought would be no big deal, well it is! Having to plug the entire camera into the wall outlet especially with such a short charger cord is ridiculous and takes a lot longer than a portable charger. I will have to see if there’s a charger I can buy and get an extra battery. If there is I suggest you buy one also. The Nikon 600 you can edit photos right on the camera, I haven’t found that on this Sony yet. Oh the volume for the shutter, The Sony 400 kept showing function is disabled when trying to turn the shutter sound down. I did an online chat with Sony and he kept saying to record a video and I could then change the volume, it took 20 min for him to understand I just wanted to change the shutter volume, he finally said there’s not a volume, it’s either on or off. Ok so ISweep Panorama onscreen instructions say move the camera left or right or up/down. I kept trying the up and and it didn’t work. First you have to go to menu, to the camera icon and scroll down to Panorama direction and set the way you want . Now on to Handheld Twilight setting, it’s better than what I expected from reviews. I wish I could post more than 2 photos here to show you. Haven’t tried night photos yet. And lastly, don’t do what I did by just going to auto and start taking photos because there is actually a wonderful camera guide in the camera (that I just now found) that tells you tips and what setting to use for different lighting and where to find the setting in the controls. So turn the camera on, go into a shooting mode, press the ? button on the bottom right side and then menu and the onscreen help comes up. There’s apparently a lot packed in this camera but it will take a beginner like me awhile to learn it. But my suggestion is go for it! 4 stars only because it’s my 2nd day to use it and had problems with not getting the up close like I wanted. Maybe the instructions will help me with that now that I know they are there in the camera

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I cannot take good pictures but this camera helps me to be a better photographer.
The 50x zoon is great. I took a picture of the moon FREE HAND. it turns out pretty good. The camera took several pictures of the moon and re-compose them into one which I call it cheating. The craters are visible without magnifying much on my laptop. The other pictures are sharp and exposed just right.
The Firework program is not that great. Maybe I don’t know the camera well enough. I did not have any pictures to bragg about. The night portrait program works well. it cuts down the blue tint from the sky to virtually nothing. The colors are true.
The battery ran out on me once. I am considering to buy a spare.
It will be great if Sony or Best Buy can make some small pouches which can be attached to the strap to carry small items like spare lenses and USB cables.

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As someone who has shot with SLR cameras for the past 50+ years I wanted a camera for birding and was impressed with the 24 to 1200 mm lens. It is awesome for shooting birds in trees but not as good on flying birds or moving targets. I guess I just need more practice. The zoom is slow but the pictures are sharp. I have gotten many compliments on the pics I put on Facebook. Over all I am very pleased with my camera.

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I am having fun with my new cameras am glad I got it

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When I was in the store shopping for a office desk, I noticed it in the display case. When I returned the next day to purchase it, I was glad to see that it hadn’t been sold yet. I just wish it came with a case like my first Sony -DSC-HX400V I bought at the Sony store on Madison Avenue some 4 years ago.
It affords me the opportunity to bring my AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER skills to a new level.