Sony Cyber Shot DSC-W50 Digital Camera
If you are about to purchase your first digital camera it would be a real challenge to choose how to spend that couple hundred dollars with the array of quality devices competing for your interest. Of course, try as you might, it would be difficult to avoid the Sony brand as the digital camera market is well served with some fine scopes from this company. 'At less than 4 inches long and not quite an inch thick, the 6.8-ounce DSC-W50 is a compact, easily pocketable point-and-shoot camera. Unfortunately, its small form includes small controls, and the small buttons are uncomfortable to use if you don't have small hands to match. However, Sony's menu system is direct and well designed, and the most common functions--timer, flash, macro, and exposure compensation--are accessible with one touch of the small control pad. Surprisingly, Sony manages to fit an optical viewfinder on the DSC-W50's diminutive body. It's a tiny, cramped viewfinder, but it can prove handy if bright light washes out the LCD.'
Features:
•6.0 Megapixel Super HAD™ CCD
Higher megapixels gives you more detail and definition for large prints and cropping in on your subject. Sony’s advanced Super HAD (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
• Large 2.5”1 LCD Screen
The DSC-W50 has a bright 2.5” LCD screen for setting up and viewing images -- with a one touch “ Play” button that makes it quick and easy to view your photos.
• Simple Controls, Function Guide
User-friendly controls and simple on-screen Function Guide text/icon display help you set up camera functions -- and you’ ll have greater creative freedom to adjust color mode (including “Natural” for subtle colors and “Rich” for more intense colors), sensitivity, brightness and image size.
• High Sensitivity Mode
A new High Sensitivity Mode (ISO 1000) allows you to shoot with great results in low-light conditions -- and Sony’s original Clear RAW NR™ (Noise Reduction) image processing technology helps suppress the color noise that can accompany high-sensitivity shooting.
• Carl Zeiss® 3X Optical/2X Digital Zoom/6X Total Zoom
3X Optical Zoom helps the DSC-W50 bring distant subjects closer and lets you frame shots for better composition; Sony’s precision 2X Digital Zoom provides an additional 2X magnification to zoom in close without jagged edges.
• Stamina® Battery Power
With its powerful Lithium Ion rechargeable battery, the DSC-W50 can capture up to 3902 images -- enough for a week of shooting. The compact BC-CSG Battery Charger is also supplied for battery recharging on the go.
• 13X Smart Zoom™ Feature
Sony's Smart Zoom feature lets you magnify your subject beyond the 3x optical zoom - to 4.1x (3MP), 5.2x (2MP), even 13x (VGA). By intelligently cropping into the central portion of the scene, it avoids the image distortion of other digital zooms.
• Capture Images In-Camera
With 32 MB3 Internal Memory, the DSC-W50 allows you to shoot without a flash memory card --then transfer your images to optional Memory Stick™ Duo media, upload to your computer or make prints on your digital printer.
• Memory Stick Duo™ Media
The DSC-W50 has a built-in slot for optional Memory Stick Duo™ or higher-capacity Memory Stick PRO Duo™ media -- the ultra compact media for shooting, storing and sharing your photo images.
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