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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 9 Mega Pixel  

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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 camera with Exmor CMOS technology offers up to 10fps shooting and features Sweep Panorama mode that can seamlessly combine multiple shots to produce striking images, advance modes that reduce noise by approximately 50 percent even in difficult shooting situations, as well as 1080p movie recording. Additionally it features professional quality 20x wide angle G-lens, 3.0-inch tiltable LCD screen and Intelligent Auto mode.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 digital camera highlights

Sweep Panorama Mode
Reach beyond the traditional wide angle lens, and capture more breathtaking shots with the Sweep Panorama Mode. Simply press the shutter button and sweep the camera in the desired direction (horizontal or vertical), and the camera continuously shoots at a high speed and then seamlessly stitches the images together to create one stunning panoramic image. Available in wide and ultrawide options, the camera can take panoramic shots of up to 224 degrees, which is wider than a fish-eye lens. Now capturing wide landscapes or church spires or skyscrapers are as easy and press and sweep.


9.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD Image Sensor
The HX1 features a 9.1-megapixel Exmor CMOS image sensor that brings out the full resolving power of the camera’s precision G-Lens to deliver extremely fast speed, high resolution, and stunning low-light sensitivity with improved image clarity and drastically reduced noise. With 9.1 megapixels, you can create stunning, photo-quality prints up to 13 x 19 inches, or crop your images and still come away with high resolution shots.

Professional-quality G-Lens
Designed and manufactured to the highest standards of optical performance, the Sony G-Lens is optimized to perfectly complement the advanced image sensors and image processing technology in Sony’s cameras. G lenses are used in top of the line digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and advanced pro-sumer HD Camcorders. Capture the action up close with the 20x optical zoom, and with the 28mm wide angle lens the HX1 even allows you to capture more of the scenes in landscape or group portraits. The HX1’s G Lens has a six blade aperture capable of producing a beautiful bokeh (beautifully defocused backgrounds with a soft natural feel). The aspherical lens elements made from ED (extra-low dispersion) minimize chromatic aberration common to high-magnification lenses.

20x High Zoom
20x optical zoom extends your reach and helps bring you closer to the action-- a real benefit for sporting events, wildlife, distant landscape views and dramatic portrait shots.

28mm Wide-Angle Lens
Widen your view and capture more of the city, landscape, or group with a 28mm wide-angle G lens.

3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD tilt display (230k pixels)
Compose and show off your images on the large 3.0-inch (230K) Clear Photo LCD Plus display, which tilts up or down approximately 90 degrees for easier high and low-angle shooting and features a special anti-reflective coating for sharp visibility, even in bright sunlight.

CMOS Sensor
Enjoy extremely high resolution, fine tonal gradation and fast speed that faithfully reproduces every detail of your subject and reduces visual noise. The Exmor CMOS sensor brings out the full potential of the lens to ensure clear, high-precession image quality.

BIONZ image processor
The BIONZ image processor delivers the high resolution and fast performance you expect from a Sony digital camera.

High Speed Shooting (10fps)
The HX1 can capture full 9.1-megapixel resolution images at up to 10 fps, helping to ensure you never miss the decisive moment. What’s more, the HX1 employs a mechanical shutter that helps reduce distortion when continuously shooting moving subjects.

Handheld Twilight Mode
Capture cleaner and sharper night shots without using a tripod. When set to Handheld Twilight Mode, the HX1 captures six images in a fraction of a second with one press of the shutter, keeping the moving object from one and superimposing the rest of the frame from the 6 images doubling the sensitivity to create a single optimized image with 50 percent less noise than an image shot with a camera with a traditional image sensor.

Additional Features

* Anti-Motion Blur Mode
* HD Movie (1080p)
* Intelligent Auto Mode
* Intelligent Scene Recognition
* Face Detection technology
* Selected Face Memory



Two new camera with sweeping panoramic function will be available soon

Sony waves in Panoramic Sweep Cyber-shots

Bridge model spec comes to compacts

By James Sherwood • Get more from this author

6th August 2009 10:49 GMT

Sony has added its funky Sweep Panorama shooting mode – as found on the firm's HX1 bridge camera – onto its two latest Cyber-shot compact cameras.

Sony's WX1 Cyber-shot has a 5x optical zoom

The mode enables owners of the new TX1 and WX1 cameras to capture super-size horizontal or vertical landscapes with a field of view up to 256° - far wider than any camera’s wide angle lens, Sony claimed. All you have to do is press the shutter button and swing the camera from left to right or up and down.
Both models can also capture 720p videos at a “super-smooth” rate of 30fps, Sony added.

A Panoramic Sweep mode features on the WX1 and TX1 (below)

In terms of technical features, the TX1 and WX1 are actually pretty similar. For example, each has a 10.2Mp Exmor CMOS sensor inside and a mechanical shutter for capturing continuous bursts of images at 10fps – which is quicker than many professional DSLR cameras achieve, Sony claimed.

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All the standard photographic features that you would expect also feature on the two models, including image stabilisation, face detection and smile recognition.
Screen size is one area where the Cyber-shot shooters do differ, though. For example, the 3in LCD built into the TX1 slightly outshines the WX1’s smaller 2.7in screen. But the TX1’s 4X optical zoom lens is also less sophisticated than the WX1’s 5x optical zoom.

The TX1 has a decently proportioned 3in LCD

Sony’s TX1 and WX1 Cyber-shot cameras are due out next month. Prices haven’t been announced, yet.