To be perferctly honest comparing the shutter speeds on cameras on your budget is a bit like comparing the performance of two people carriers; someone will have an opinion on what gives the better perfomance, but they're both pretty lame compared to a Lotus. The difference becomes almost negligable.
I doubt you will get a shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second on a low end camera. The highest speed will probably be 1/2000. What you should therefore ensure is that you get a camera with which you can manually change the shutter speed. Typically Sonys are geared twoards point and shooters and may not have this manual setting, or is burried in the menu.
You're probably looking at around the £500 from new mark before you get a shutter speed of 1/8000. I've had a look around however, and it seems Panasonics tend to offer higher shutter speeds at lower prices.
According to Amazon the Panasonic NVGS27B does this at under your budget, but you'll probably be compromising on other areas. In fact in the under £200 price range I could only find Panasonics meeting your criteria.
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