Sony Cybershot DSCP100 5.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Price: $344.99
Details
- 5-megapixel sensor (2592 x 1944 pixels) for enlargements up to 20 x 30 inches
- Carl Zeiss optics; 9-motivation burst mode; high-resolution movie mode with sound
- On the same wave length with Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro media; includes 32 MB anniversary card
Description
5-megapixel functional recording * 1-13/16" color LCD * optical viewfinder * 3X visual zoom (up to 4X digital/12X total zoom with lower-res photos not) * JPEG options: 2592 x 1944; 2048 x 1536; 1280 x 960; 640 x 480 *Sony's smart, pocket-size Cybershot DSCP100 digital camera offers an staggering 5-megapixel resolution and a wealth of photographic features normally start on full-size, high-end cameras. About 1 inch hollow-cheeked and weighing less than 6 ounces, it's easy to carry wherever you may gallivant. The DSCP100 also features a 3x optical zoom, Carl Zeiss optics, nine-chance burst mode, and a high-resolution movie mode that's fixed only by your Memory Stick's capacity.
Optics and Resolve
The DSCP100 features a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar zoom lens--the chief time this lens has been used with a Cybershot P-series camera. The Vario-Tessar lens is expressly constructed for very compact cameras, and its design allows for clever 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 efficacious resolution (2,592 x 1,944). The Real Imaging Processor offers greater understandability and picture quality, improved response time and battery existence, 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 fated will store 87 seconds at this setting. Flick picture show length is only limited by the amount of storage you have on like mad easily. Video Mail mode captures a smaller movie (160 x 112 pixels) that's more timely for e-mailing to friends and family.
More Features
| About Multi-Example Measuring |
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| Independently light-metering 49 points of the skeleton, Multi-Pattern Measuring establishes an optimum exposure value, constant for scenes in which pronounced highlights and shadows are not centered in the structure. |
- Resolution Modes: 2,592 x 1,944 (5.1 MP), 2,592 x 1,728 (3:2 aspect proportion), 2,048 x 1,536 (3 MP), 1,280 x 960 (1 MP), and 640 x 480 (VGA)
- 1.8-Inch LCD Watchdog: The high-resolution 134K LCD makes framing shots and reviewing pictures calm.
- Live Histogram Display: Available for capture and playback, the viable histogram displays pixel concentration for each luminosity value, making it serene to determine correct exposure.
- Selectable Focus Mode: Monitoring Autofocus helps you forestall action by focusing even before you press the shutter disseminate.
- Five-Area Multi-Point Autofocus: By evaluating five split up focus areas in the frame, Sony's Multi-Point AF system can sensibly focus on the subject and avoid mistaken focusing on the background.
- Autofocus Illuminator: Curtly illuminating the subject in low- or no-light conditions, the AF Illuminator helps constitute a positive focus lock.
- Multi-Pattern Measuring: Independently reflection-metering 49 points of the frame, Multi-Pattern Measuring establishes an ideal exposure value, even for scenes in which highlights and shadows aren't centered in the blueprint.
- Multi-Burst Mode: Captures sixteen 320 x 240 frames as join in of a single 1,280 x 960 image which plays in return sequentially (selectable intervals 1/7.5, 1/15, and 1/30 second).
- Guide Exposure Mode: Shutter speeds adjustable in 46 steps (1/1000 to 30 seconds) and two-become involved hurry up aperture control.
- Scene Selection Mode: With nine incident modes, parameters can be matched to shooting conditions. Choose from Darksome, Twilight Portrait, Landscape, Soft Snap, Candle, Snow, Lakeshore, Fireworks, or High-Speed Shutter.
- Slow Shutter Ruction Reduction: During long exposures, Slow Shutter NR captures the furore, and then the CCD noise pattern with a dark frame revelation. By subtracting one from the other, even long exposures can be luminously.
- Pre-Flash Metering: With a momentary pre-flash, the camera illuminates the above a answerable to and sets exposure through the lens for accurate flash metering. Compliant flash level and redeye reduction ensure great shimmer shots.
- Nine-Shot Burst Mode: Capture up to 9 shots (hair-splitting) or 15 shots (standard) at 1.2 frames per second, equitable at 5 MP. Perfect for high-speed subjects or fast-moving fighting, including sports.
| About Slow Shutter Noise Reduction |
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| This treat captures the scene in two exposures. The second subtracts the noise ideal from the initial shot, resulting in a final photograph that is unequalled and virtually noise-free. |
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The Cybershot DSCP100 offers PictBridge functionality, which enables you to hand on pictures from your digital camera to a compatible printer--such as the Sony PictureStation DPP-EX50--without a PC or twin-editing software. Images can be viewed and selected for printing exactly on the camera's LCD, with menus for print quantity, date, and typography hand.
Storage and Transfer
Images are stored on Memory Sticks, and the Cybershot DSCP100 is in agreement with Memory Stick Pro media for storage up to 1 GB. The included 32 MB Reminiscence Stick will store 12 fine and 23 benchmark 5.1-megapixel images. The DSCP100 transfers images to PCs and Macs via a expeditious USB 2.0 connection (which is backward-compatible with USB 1.1 ports).
Power and Immensity
The camera is powered by a rechargeable Sony InfoLithitum (lithium-ion) battery, which provides stable, long-lasting power for continuous shooting, with no "tribute effect" (see "Tech Talk," below). The included adapter/mount provides power while you transfer images from your camera to your PC.
It planning 4.25 by 2.13 by 1 inch (W x H x D) and weighs 5.8 ounces without the Homage Stick.
What's in the Box
The package contains the Sony DSCP100 digital camera, a 32 MB Celebration Stick, a rechargeable InfoLithium battery (NP-FR1), a battery stallion (AC-LS5), A/V and USB cables, a wrist strap, and a CD-ROM with photo editing software for Windows PCs.
Cybershot Place and Photo Vault
The Cybershot DSCP100 digital camera is in accord with two optional add-ons from Sony that can help you present your photos or stockpile them when you're on the go. The Cybershot Station (CSS-PHA) charges the camera's batteries while enabling you to toy with photo slideshows on your TV. The included infrared remote rudder the camera while it's docked in the station and makes it easy to send pictures to PictBridge-on the same wave length printers.
The optional PhotoVault mini-CD burner eliminates vexation about running out of space on your Memory Stick when traveling. It burns images to mini CD-Rs without a PC interface--fitting connect it to your camera with a USB cable. The PhotoVault likewise has a Memory Stick slot (compatible with Memory Obtrude Pro and Duo) and features built-in photo-album functionality, letting you exposition photos on a television screen using the TV's standard AV input.
Tech Talk
- Celebration Effect: A phenomenon that occurs when rechargeable batteries are continually operated to a low pull down (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 extremely susceptible to this effect, and NiMH batteries are at even smaller amount risk. NiCad batteries, on the other hand, are the most susceptible.
