Our Overall Score:
9.1/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Compact and bridge cameras category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £379
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Compact and bridge cameras category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera
SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera scores 9.1/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Compact and bridge cameras. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Compact and bridge cameras, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Compact and bridge cameras? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera scores 8.2/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Compact and bridge cameras category was £2199.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £7.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Compact and bridge cameras category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Compact and bridge cameras category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Compact and bridge cameras category. This was £264.38 from the 165 products we found in that category. So SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera actually comes in above average at £379.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2199.00 and the least expensive, which was £7.99. In total we found that of the 165, 31 were more expensive and 131 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Compact and bridge cameras category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Compact and bridge cameras category.
For this we found that the average price was £500.63, making SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera at £379 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £2199.00 with the lowest priced item being £69.00. In total there were 8 items that were more expensive and 15 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera
SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera is.
Overall score
SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera scores 9.1/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY Cyber-shot Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: HX99
- 18.2 megapixelsSensor type: 1/2.3″ / 6.17 x 4.55 mm CMOS sensorOptical zoom: 28 x3″ tiltable LCD touchscreenBuilt-in Bluetooth / NFC
- EAN: 4548736087798
- Description: Top features: – Get closer with the wide-reaching zoom – Brilliant low light photography even at high ISO settings – Pick your best shot with up to 10 fps continuous shooting – Creative control using the touch focus & control ring – More ways to shoot with the screen, viewfinder & app Get closerThe travel-friendly Sony Cyber-shot HX99 Superzoom Compact Camera lets you get closer to your subjects without moving an inch. It’s brilliantly compact yet has an impressive 24-720 mm range. That means you can zoom right in on architectural details or get a clear shot of your favourite band in concert.And with image stabilisation, your images will be sharp even when you’re zooming. It helps counter handheld camera shake – great for taking photos of your family and friends on overcast days or indoors.Brilliant low light photographyTaking photos in low light can be tricky. That’s why the Exmor R sensor and BIONZ X image processor work together to reduce noise at high ISO settings. So even if you’re shooting around the city at night, your images will be free from grain, with natural colours and textures.Appreciate the details in each scene with 4K Ultra HD movie making. The sensor collects more pixel information than it needs, so you get plenty of detail with almost no moiré and jagged edges.Pick your best shotFreezeframe the action by capturing up to 10 frames per second (fps). You’ll be able to get some brilliant trick shots at your local skate park, or capture the moment your kid scores, and pick the best from the bunch.And for those fleeting moments, the HX99 offers super quick auto focusing, great for both photos and video. For a professional-looking portrait, make use of the Eye AF feature to get your subject’s eyes sharply in focus, even if they’re looking down.Creative controlWhen you’re taking a picture of your friend, you want the camera to focus on who’s important. Touch focus lets you choose exactly where you want to focus using the touchscreen, so you can always get them in perfect focus. And just like using your smartphone, you can also tap the screen to take a photo.Controlling all the key functions is a breeze. You can customise the control ring for easy access to your most used settings. Great for when you’re shooting in tricky lighting conditions or want a bit more creative control over your photos.More ways to shootWith the HX99, you can shoot the way you like. The touchscreen flips up for easy selfies and group shots, while the pop-up viewfinder makes it easy to frame photos in bright sunlight.Alternatively, pair the camera with your smartphone and you’ll be able to use your phone as a second screen and remote. One-touch sharing makes it easy to transfer photos and videos straight to your NFC-enabled smartphone.Picture thisThe decisive moment, that perfect shot, missed because you were waiting for your camera to be ready to take a photo again. But it’s not your camera or your shooting technique – it’s all down to having the right memory card.To prevent that annoying lag when capturing high res images and HD video, opt for a high performance memory card with a fast write speed. Now you can focus on your subject.
- Product ID: 23785306353
