This camera only just missed out on the top accolade by the barest of margins, but the Sony Cyber-shot P-93 proved to be an excellent camera and well deserves the Recommended award we've given it.

Featuring a compact lozenge-shaped body with a fair bit of weight to it, the Cyber-shot P-93 is a solid camera that implies strength and good engineering. Internally, the camera has a 5.1-megapixel CCD and is capable of taking some excellent photos. While it's not as capable as some other models in our picture tests - a surprise from Sony, as their cameras are usually top-notch - the images it took were brightly coloured and vibrant, even if the colours were actually a little off.

The image's contrast and brightness levels also needed a bit of tweaking to marry the captured images with reality, but it certainly wasn't as bad as the Ricoh Caplio R1's efforts.

Some of the Cyber-shots strengths lay in the resolution and sharpness of the captured images, and with the bundled memory capacity: 32MB, but the rest is in the excellent Sony design. While the camera's weighty and solid, the design means it's operable one-handed (if you're right-handed, that is).

All in all, the Cyber-shot loses out in the performance stakes, but still makes up for it with some fantastic features and great functionality. While MemoryStick Pro is somewhat limiting in terms of locking you into the one format, Sony have finally ditched bundling mere 8MB sticks with their cameras and have upped it to a usable 32MB.