As a backpacker, I like W-Series of Sony's line of CyberShot cameras, especially the W-55. So it was with my own high expectations that I picked up Sony's latest and top-end flagship camera, the W300 camera, the 13.6 megapixel beauty that has literally changed the playing field for the competition.

This may be too big for some people (roughly 5-5.5 MB's per image), however, when you turn the notch down to 8M, the Bayer interpolation goes away on the sensor, and the picture quality, in good light, starts to approach starter level SLR's, when the noise reduction is set right. Read the rest of this article »