Sony unloads a truckload of new cameras before PMA

There's a flurry of moderate low-end camera updates hitting the wires before PMA next week, and Sony's no exception -- it just dropped eight new shooters on us. Nothing major here, just bumps to existing models around. A quick rundown after the break, with pictures of all the new gear in the gallery.

Gallery: Pre-PMA Sony Cameras

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DSC-H10:

• Updates the DSC-H3
• 3-inch LCD
• 8 megapixel resolution
• ISO3200 sensitivity
  
• 10x optical zoom
• Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization
• 1080p output with a special cable
• $300 in May
  

DSC-S750 and DSC-S780

• Updates the DSC-S700
  
• Lithium-ion batteries replace AAs
• Add ISO1250 sensitivity
• 7.2 megapixel (S750) and 8.1 megapixel (S780) resolutions
• 3x optical zoom
• 2.5-inch LCD
• 22MB internal memory with MS Duo expansion
• $150 (S750) and $180 (S780) in March
  

DSC-T300

• Updates the DSC-T200
• 10.1 megapixel resolution
  
• Intelligent Scene Recognition, which takes a second shot with optimized settings
• 3.5-inch touch screen
• 5x optical zoom
• ISO3200 sensitivity
• $400 in red, black, and silver in March

DSC-W170, DSC-W150, DSC-W130, and DSC-W120

• Updates the W series all around
• 10.1 megapixel W170 and 8.1 megapixel W150
• 5x optical zoom
• 2.7-inch LCD
• Optical viewfinder
• Intelligent scene recognition
  
• 8.1 megapixel W130 and 7.2 megapixel W120
• 4x optical zoom
• 2.5-inch LCD
• All feature "smile shutter" which automatically takes a picture when subject smiles
• W120 and W130 in March for $200 and $230 in several colors
• W150 and W170 in April for $250 and $300 in several colors
  

[Kiwi616 @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:06PM]

NICE, I was waiting for a 2G T200, I guess the T300 is it!

Thanks Sony!

Still waiting for 2G iPod Touch with 32GB.

[Itchy Pajamas @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:10PM]

My T200 is a dinosaur. Fortunately the main upgrade is a bunch of useless megapixels.

I'm waiting for the Nikon D400 (or something) next year, which will compete with the successor to the Canon 5D.

For now I'll plod along with my Nikon D200, Canon G7, Canon SD700, Sony DSC-H1, and Sony DSC-T200. And all their different freakin' battery chargers.

[Michael @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:16PM]

Not bad.

[Mystic @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:25PM]

Yet the most important feature in a camera, THE LENS, is no where to be found.

[Adam @ Jan 23rd 2008 11:32PM]

they're all Carl Zeiss lenses.

[Nick @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:34PM]

could the picture be any bigger?

[JJV @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:50PM]

thats what i was going to see. i was scrolling down and WHOA!! Sony got in my face.

[xbit @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:55PM]

Maybe it was taken with this 8.1MP camera...

[AA @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:37PM]

About the S750/780-would these still be using a Sony optical lens like the S700?

I wish these cameras would feature a Zeiss lens like the S600 did.

[Itchy Pajamas @ Jan 23rd 2008 2:50PM]

The photo of the H10 on the front of this article just zoomed about 5x! It's going to swallow my soul gets any bigger.

[Stasguy @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:26PM]

Why won't sony put the zeiss lenses into their phones? (maybe they want us to buy Nokia?)

[Shutter Blog @ Jan 23rd 2008 3:57PM]

Yeah, but can it take a million pictures a second?

[teej @ Jan 23rd 2008 4:50PM]

they probably all support Bluray too...le sigh. oops...i meant one of Sony's other forcefully proprietary formats.

[Poom @ Jan 24th 2008 5:27AM]

How is Blu-ray proprietary? Seriously... I am sick of these comments...

[teej @ Jan 24th 2008 11:00AM]

Sony's just evil...can't you see it? they've always tried so hard and arrogantly to push their formats (even if they don't own BD), and it's a taste of things to come. after BD eventually wins, Sony will build Skynet and destroy us all! their motto is assimilate or die.

anyways, yaaa cameras! woooo!

[Sim @ Jan 23rd 2008 6:09PM]

Hmm...could they not think of anything more inventive to do to the H3 than a half inch or something on the screen?

Fix some of the dodgier bits of the processing...allow zoom on videos if you pick it, or at least digitally..

Ah well.