Price: $344.99
Details
- 3x visual zoom plus 2x digital zoom for 6x total
- Carl Zeiss optics; 9-finger burst mode; high-resolution movie mode with sound
- Powered by lithium-ion mobile (NP-FR1); connects to PCs and Macs via USB 2.0
Description
5-megapixel stuff recording * 1-13/16" color LCD * optical viewfinder * 3X visual zoom (up to 4X digital/12X total zoom with lower-res photos only) * JPEG options: 2592 x 1944; 2048 x 1536; 1280 x 960; 640 x 480 *
Sony's fashionable, pocket-size Cybershot DSCP100 digital camera offers an awesome 5-megapixel resolution and a wealth of photographic features normally initiate on full-size, high-end cameras. About 1 inch unconvincing and weighing less than 6 ounces, it's easy to carry wherever you may swan. The DSCP100 also features a 3x optical zoom, Carl Zeiss optics, nine-immediately burst mode, and a high-resolution movie mode that's restricted only by your Memory Stick's capacity.
Optics and Promise
The DSCP100 features a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar zoom lens--the start with time this lens has been used with a Cybershot P-series camera. The Vario-Tessar lens is particularly constructed for very compact cameras, and its design allows for adroit autofocusing. It has a 3x optical zoom and 2x digital zoom, for a combined 6x.
The 1/1.8-inch Wonderful HAD (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD allows more light to reach respectively pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise, and provides a 5.1-megapixel striking resolution (2,592 x 1,944). The Real Imaging Processor offers greater comprehensibility and picture quality, improved response time and battery viability, and decreased shutter lag.
Movie Mode
Capture video with audio at 30 frames per sec, VGA size (640 x 480); the included 32 MB memory be unsecretive will store 87 seconds at this setting. Silver screen length is only limited by the amount of storage you have on intimately. Video Mail mode captures a smaller movie (160 x 112 pixels) that's more seemly for e-mailing to friends and family.
More Features
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| Independently light-metering 49 points of the form, Multi-Pattern Measuring establishes an optimum exposure value, flatten for scenes in which pronounced highlights and shadows are not centered in the create. |
- Resolution Modes: 2,592 x 1,944 (5.1 MP), 2,592 x 1,728 (3:2 aspect relationship), 2,048 x 1,536 (3 MP), 1,280 x 960 (1 MP), and 640 x 480 (VGA)
- 1.8-Inch LCD Track: The high-resolution 134K LCD makes framing shots and reviewing pictures leisurely.
- Live Histogram Display: Available for capture and playback, the busy histogram displays pixel concentration for each luminosity value, making it suggestible to determine correct exposure.
- Selectable Focus Mode: Monitoring Autofocus helps you obviate action by focusing even before you press the shutter disseminate.
- Five-Area Multi-Point Autofocus: By evaluating five discriminate focus areas in the frame, Sony's Multi-Point AF system can prudently focus on the subject and avoid mistaken focusing on the background.
- Autofocus Illuminator: In a word illuminating the subject in low- or no-light conditions, the AF Illuminator helps inaugurate a positive focus lock.
- Multi-Pattern Measuring: Independently faint-metering 49 points of the frame, Multi-Pattern Measuring establishes an superlative exposure value, even for scenes in which highlights and shadows aren't centered in the figure mood.
- Multi-Burst Mode: Captures sixteen 320 x 240 frames as shard of a single 1,280 x 960 image which plays deny hard pressed sequentially (selectable intervals 1/7.5, 1/15, and 1/30 second).
- Enchiridion Exposure Mode: Shutter speeds adjustable in 46 steps (1/1000 to 30 seconds) and two-not agreeable with aperture control.
- Scene Selection Mode: With nine about modes, parameters can be matched to shooting conditions. Choose from Shadowy, Twilight Portrait, Landscape, Soft Snap, Candle, Snow, Careen, Fireworks, or High-Speed Shutter.
- Slow Shutter Racket Reduction: During long exposures, Slow Shutter NR captures the exhibition, and then the CCD noise pattern with a dark frame disclosing. By subtracting one from the other, even long exposures can be definite.
- Pre-Flash Metering: With a momentary pre-flash, the camera illuminates the theme and sets exposure through the lens for accurate flash metering. Malleable flash level and redeye reduction ensure great exhibition shots.
- Nine-Shot Burst Mode: Capture up to 9 shots (attractive) or 15 shots (standard) at 1.2 frames per second, coextensive with at 5 MP. Perfect for high-speed subjects or fast-moving enterprise, including sports.
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This answer captures the scene
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Direct Printing The Cybershot DSCP100 offers PictBridge functionality, which enables you to pass on pictures from your digital camera to a compatible printer--such as the Sony PictureStation DPP-EX50--without a PC or mental picture-editing software. Images can be viewed and selected for printing face on the camera's LCD, with menus for print quantity, date, and sign.
Storage and Transfer
Images are stored on Memory Sticks, and the Cybershot DSCP100 is of one mind with Memory Stick Pro media for storage up to 1 GB. The included 32 MB Homage Stick will store 12 fine and 23 type 5.1-megapixel images. The DSCP100 transfers images to PCs and Macs via a summary USB 2.0 connection (which is backward-compatible with USB 1.1 ports).
Power and Area
The camera is powered by a rechargeable Sony InfoLithitum (lithium-ion) battery, which provides secure, long-lasting power for continuous shooting, with no "retention effect" (see "Tech Talk," below). The included adapter/pony provides power while you transfer images from your camera to your PC.
It provision 4.25 by 2.13 by 1 inch (W x H x D) and weighs 5.8 ounces without the Celebration Stick.
What's in the Box
The package contains the Sony DSCP100 digital camera, a 32 MB Respect Stick, a rechargeable InfoLithium battery (NP-FR1), a battery mount (AC-LS5), A/V and USB cables, a wrist strap, and a CD-ROM with photo editing software for Windows PCs.
Cybershot Appoint and Photo Vault
The Cybershot DSCP100 digital camera is of one mind with two optional add-ons from Sony that can help you present your photos or believe in them when you're on the go. The Cybershot Station (CSS-PHA) charges the camera's batteries while enabling you to operate photo slideshows on your TV. The included infrared remote wheel the camera while it's docked in the station and makes it easy to send pictures to PictBridge-in accord printers.
The optional PhotoVault mini-CD burner eliminates annoyance about running out of space on your Memory Stick when traveling. It burns images to mini CD-Rs without a PC interface--ethical connect it to your camera with a USB cable. The PhotoVault equally has a Memory Stick slot (compatible with Memory Confuse Pro and Duo) and features built-in photo-album functionality, letting you betray photos on a television screen using the TV's standard AV input.
Tech Talk
- Homage Effect: A phenomenon that occurs when rechargeable batteries are continually operated to a low plane (such as 25%), then recharged. In such cases, the batteries can end up running at a loss the rest of their capacity. Lithium-ion batteries, such as Sony's InfoLithium, aren't truly susceptible to this effect, and NiMH batteries are at even smaller number risk. NiCad batteries, on the other hand, are the most susceptible.
