Ordinary cameras seldom capture the full impact of breathtaking landscapes, city scenes and tall buildings. Even if you’ve got a wide angle lens, it’s hard to squeeze everything into the frame and do the scene justice.

To pack more into the picture, photographers traditionally use the trick of shooting several frames, shifting the camera’s position to capture different parts of the scene. These shots are combined to create one extra-large image. However it’s a fiddly manual process that demands skill and patience to stitch frames together without obvious joins.

Now there’s a fun, easy way to create seamless, ultra-wide pictures with a huge field of view of up to 224 degrees. Even at the lowest horizontal panoramic setting you’ll get a field of view of 108 degrees: that’s equivalent to a wide angle lens with a focal length of just 14mm.

Sweep Panorama takes the hard work out of creating fabulous panoramic shots. And best of all, everything’s done for you inside the camera.

Sweep Panorama is an exclusive Sony feature that makes its debut on the Cyber-shot™ HX1. It’s the world’s first compact camera that automatically captures with top-quality Sony G Lens and combines a high-speed burst of full-resolution images.

Just press the shutter button and sweep the camera from left to right across your scene. It also works vertically, letting you sweep the camera up and down to capture tall buildings in a single, dramatic image.

The ultra-fast EXMOR CMOS sensor inside the HX1 shoots a rapid burst of frames at fast speed. Frames are then stitched together automatically by the camera: the whole process takes just three seconds.

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