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Sony DSC-WX9 – unrestricted power in a compact package. With
powerful features like Full HD movie for high quality movies, low
light performance for improved image clarity, 10 fps to capture
the precise moment, and 3D still image capture for a new way to
experience your pictures, you wouldn’t believe something so
compact could be this powerful. Sony DSC-WX9 Feature Highlights
16.1 Megapixel Back-illuminated “Exmor R” CMOS Image Sensor
The DSC-WX9 features a 16.1 megapixel “Exmor R” CMOS image
sensor that brings out the full resolving power of the camera’s
Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens to deliver extremely fast speed,
high resolution, and stunning low-light sensitivity with improved
image clarity and drastically reduced grain. In addition, the
combined “Exmor R” CMOS sensor and BIONZ image processor delivers
extremely fast 10fps, Anti Motion Blur, Hand-held Twilight and
1080i movie modes3.
3.0-inch XtraFine
3.0-inch XtraFine technology gives you deeper blacks and more
color in your display, all while being thinner than most LCDs.
Full HD 1080@60i
Record crystal clear movies at the highest resolution available
with capabilities for 60i in 1080 AVCHD3. This provides stunning,
fast motion video with less distortion for playback on your HD
TV.
3D still image and panorama
Produce awe-inspiring images with 3D still image and 3D Sweep
Panorama capabilities4. Photos will take on a new dimension of
creative capabilities for viewing the world in a whole new way.
iSweep Panorama
With iSweep Panorama just press the shutter, pan the landscape
and let the camera do the rest. It automatically links together
each frame to produce a panoramic image. This model even detects
faces and moving subjects to stitch intelligently different
widths to help avoid subject distortion.
Background Defocus
DSLR photographs are often beautiful because they blur the
background, putting the emphasis on the subject. Now our
point-and-shoot cameras can deliver this signature DSLR benefit.
The system takes two s, identifies the background and applies
a defocused background keeping the subject crisp and clear.
Backlight Correction HDR
Don’t miss a single detail in high contrast s. The built in
backlight correction analyzes the image and automatically adjusts
accordingly to give you a perfectly lit . Backlight
Correction HDR helps correct for this by taking three pictures at
different exposure settings and processing the best elements of
each into a single image for more natural looking s.
Superior Auto Mode
Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed s. The
camera automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then
quickly shoots and combines up to six s to produce images
with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range using backlight
correction HDR technology and lower image noise using 6 s
layering technology. Superior Auto intelligently detects 36
scenes for still images and 44 scenes for movies, making it easy
to get the best .
Digital Zoom
Capturing the right at the right moment has never been so
easy. Digital zoom brings the action up close to get that perfect
, every time.
Optical Steady image stabilization
Optical Steady image stabilization uses a built-in gyro
sensor to detect camera shake and automatically shifts the lens
to help prevent blur without sacrificing image quality.
Soft Skin Mode
Portrait subjects will love the results. Soft Skin mode
recognizes skin tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and
s without affecting the rest of the .
Natural Flash
Conventional point-and-shoot camera flash s just don't
capture colors the way the eye sees them. Natural Flash mode
takes a reference without flash and then uses that reference
to correct the color, for far more lifelike images.
Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens with 25mm equivalent wide 5x
Optical Zoom
The high-performance Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 5x optical zoom
lens brings distant subjects closer for video as well
as for outdoor, sports, and travel photos, and Close Focus shoots
close-ups up to just under ½-inch from the subject. A wide angle
of 25mm equivalent wide-angle lens allows you to take wider s
of the scene or group in crowded spaces.
HDMI output
The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a compact
audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed
digital streams. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources such
as a compatible camcorder, Blu-ray Disc player, a personal
computer, a video game console, or an AV receiver to a compatible
digital audio device and/or video monitor such as a digital
television (DTV). Easily connect your Cyber- camera via HDMI
cable to any compatible HDMI compatible device to easily enjoy
and upload content6.
Smile Shutter technology
Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the moment it happens.
Simply press the Smile Shutter button and the camera does the
rest. You can also select adult and child priority and indicate
the degree of Smile Detection Sensitivity. Intelligent Scene
Re can be used together with Smile Shutter mode. This
means that beautiful smiles can be captured with settings
optimized for the particular scene, even in difficult conditions
such as twilight and backlighting.
Face Detection technology
Sony’s Face Detection technology can automatically distinguish
between children and adults. Face Detection technology detects up
to eight individual faces and adjusts flash, focus, exposure, and
white balance to help deliver crisp, properly lit images of
family and friends.
Motion Detection
Motion Detection, along with Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO
sensitivity and increases the shutter speed when movement is
detected, reducing blur in moving subjects and faces.
Anti-blink Function
It’s frustrating to capture the perfect , only to review it
later and discover subjects blinked during the photo. When the
camera is set to Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two
images, only the photo with less squinting or blinking.
If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be
displayed after you take the .
Sweep Multi Angle Mode
In Sweep Multi Angle mode, the camera takes 15 images at
different angles as it sweeps across the scene. By tilting the
camera during playback, the camera’s Gyro Sensor detects motion
and displays the image in a 3D-like view on the camera’s LCD.
Anti-Motion Blur Mode
Capture cleaner and sharper images in low light for non
landscape s. When set in Anti-motion Blur Mode, the DSC-WX9
captures six images in a fraction of a second with higher shutter
speed and combines the data from all six to create a single image
of extraordinary detail and dramatically reduce subject blur,
beyond the capability of traditional cameras.
TransferJet technology
TransferJet technology, developed by Sony and advanced and
promoted by consortium of 18 other companies, allows you to
transfer up to ten files between two TransferJet enabled devices
just by touching their TransferJet logos together, without the
hassle of hunting for cables or the complication of pairing5.
Compatible with PC and MAC Systems
The high definition, AVCHD, video captured with the DSC-WX9 can
be used with the provided Picture Motion Browser software1 for PC
and iMovie (sold separately) for Mac systems².
Includes Sony PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Software ver. 5.51
Sony Picture Motion Browser software offers a simple, intuitive
way to transfer, sort, and view your video and still images on
your compatible PC. In addition, multiple output options let you
burn your memories to DVD using an external DVD burning device
(sold separately), as well as take advantage of one click upload
to a number of popular video and photo sharing sites (such as
Facebook and Sony’s Personal Space). Using the new 5.5 version
also enables playback of 3D images taken on the Cyber-
camera.
Includes Sony PMB Portable software2
With the pre-installed Picture Motion Browser (PMB) Portable
software2 the DSC-WX9 makes it easy to pre-select videos and
images in the camera and conveniently upload them from the camera
to a compatible PC and popular Internet sharing sites7 without
the need for any additional software or install.
* PMB requires Microsoft Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista
SP2/Windows 7 environments not supported. Not supported by Mac
OS.
* Uploading directly to the web requires PMB Portable (ver 5.5)
for Windows; (ver 1.3) for Mac software and USB cable (included),
and PC with internet connectivity. Windows XP SP3 64-bit and
Starter Edition and Windows Vista Starter Edition environments
not supported.
* Movie is limited to 29 minute segments.
* 3D viewing requires 3D HDTV, a high speed HDMI cable
(supporting at least 10.2 Gbps) connection and 3D glasses (all
sold separately).
* TransferJet enabled media (sold separately) and TransferJet
technology required in both devices. Interoperability and
compatibility among TransferJet enabled devices may vary.
* HD Viewing requires an HD output adapter cable (VMC-MD3) and
compatible HDTV, both sold separately.
* Requires compatible wireless access point(s). Some features may
rely on Internet services.
- Exmor R CMOS sensor for low-light performance, 5x, bright lens.
- Full HD 1080x1920 with dual record of stills and movies.
- 3D still image and 3D Sweep Panorama.
- Fast capture with 10fps at full 16.2 MP resolution.
- iSweep Panorama for one landscapes.