Powerful 10x optical zoom lens lets you pick up fine detail from a distance. Unlike other digital cameras with limited zooming capabilities (usually equipped with 3x zoom), you’ll be able to capture extremely distant subject with optical clarity.
120x Digital Zoom
The camera gives you up to 120x Digital Zoom (up to 10x Optical), ensuring that your subject is always within range. Use the 10x Optical Zoom for crystal clear magnification, or the 120x Digital Zoom when you want to get close to the action.
Clear Photo LCD Plus further improves the visibility of previous LCDs, enabling more detailed and colourful photography of objects in dark or bright places. Clear Photo LCD Plus provides high resolution (over 200K dots) and displays the image sharp and crisp.
4.0 Mega Pixels Recording
Using a new image signal processing algorithm, the Enhanced Imaging Processor doubles the density of effective pixels from 2 Mega Pixels to 4 Mega Pixels, giving you high resolution still images
5.1 Surround Recording
Record rich, vibrant sounds in a realistic, three dimensional way. It adds quality to your Home Theatre System sound.
Enjoy Easy Connection , more control with less hastle with the new and smaller Active Interface Shoe (AIS). A feature special to Sony Handycam®, it enables accessories like Video Lights and Microphones to be easily and quickly connected.
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* Lens is a professional high-precision lens that uses the most advanced optical multi-layer coating to reduce unwanted flaring and ghosting on the final image.
Enjoy a wider dynamic range, smear-free images, high-sensitivity, high-speed processing and lower power consumption with Sony's ClearVid CMOS Sensor. The ClearVid CMOS Sensor improves on conventional CMOS and CCD sensors in 3 significant ways.
Colour Slow Shutter
With the new Colour Slow Shutter function, you can achieve low light recording in colour! Now your memories can be colourful even in the dark.
Disc Copy Software Supplied
A complete solution from start to finish. This product comes with disc copy software that will allow you to enter a 8cm DVD into you computer and create a standard 12cm DVD
Capture audio from all directions and encode it in real-time to create 5.1ch. Surround Sound. This means you can sit back and let Sony’s Handycam® camcorders deliver a cinematic theatre experience right in the comfort of your living room.
The cutting-edge Enhanced Imaging Processor has been specially developed to maximise the CMOS Sensor's capabilities. Once light enters the lens, it enables high-resolution image recording through near instantaneous processing of enormous volumes of pixel data from the CMOS Sensor.
High Quality Wide
14.3% Wider viewing Angle & up to 33% higher Resolution, as compared to non-mega recording in widescreen mode.
Ultra-small and ultra-thin, Memory Stick makes storing and transferring your image easy. Available in various capacities. Memory Stick represents an inexpensive memory storage solution for recording and transferring digital data.
PictBridge™
Print without a PC! Simply connect the printer to a PictBridge-enabled digital camera or camcorder via a USB cable. Use the camera’s LCD display to select the images and input them onto the printer’s control panel and start printing.
STAMINA Battery Life
Battery life should be the last thing you have to worry about, and with Sony, it is. Using a combination of efficient power management system, and low current power consumption. Your Handycam or Cyber-shot will last longer before it requires charging.
SteadyShot
Takes out minor picture jitter/shake. Optical SteadyShot uses a lens system, while electronic Steady Shot uses a larger CCD for increased image area and less shake.
Super NightShot
A built-in, infrared system that lets you capture video in monochrome recording from up to 10 feet away even in total darkness (0 lux). Super Night Shot also allows you to employ one of two Slow Shutter speeds to increase picture brightness, contrast and quality.