Sony DSC HX1 Features
The Sony Cybershot DSC HX1 is a 9 megapixel digital camera with a 20x, wide angle lens. The focal length of the lens is equivalent to 28 - 560mm in 35mm format. Zoom can be increased when shooting at lower resolutions to a maximum 108x. 2x digital zoom is available as well.
Basics
- Image stabilisation
- Self timer 2 or 10 seconds
- Adjust sharpness, saturation and contrast
- Sensor size: 1/2.4 inches
- Smile Shutter
- Face Detection
- Macro Mode: 1cm
- Special Wide Resolution: 16:9
- Special resolution for 6 x 4 inch prints
- Conversion Lens compatibility
- Colour options: Vivid, Real, Sepia, Black & White
- Red, Green, Blue, Warm, Cool
- Dynamic Range Optimiser
- Noise Reduction
- Easy panoramas with sweep panorama mode
LCD and Viewfinder
The LCD monitor is 3 inches in size and can tilt to a 90 degree angle. The screen is made up of around 230,400 dots. An electrical viewfinder is also available.
Flash
Flash Modes: Auto, Forced Flash, Slow Syncro, No Flash
Flash Range: 9.2m (wide), 5.1m (tele)
Red eye reduction can be turned on.
The power of the flash can be adjusted
Scene Modes
There are a number of preset scene modes. These are: Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Twilight using a tripod, Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Landscape, Macro and Portrait.
Movies
You can shoot High Definition movies with a resolution of 1440 x 1080 pixels. The top recording speed is 30 frames per second. Sound can be recorded and zoom can be applied during shooting.
Advanced Features
Among the more advanced features are:
- Burst Mode: Up to 10 shots in one second
- Manual exposure
- Aperture priority
- Shutter priority
- Sensitivity: Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
- Light Metering: Multi Pattern, Centre weighted, Spot
- White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent1, Fluorescent2, Fluorescent3, Incandescent, Flash
- Exposure Compensation: +/- 2.0 EV, 1/ 3 EV step
- Shutter Speed: 2 - 1/4000 seconds
- Manual Focus
- Bracketing
- Maximum Aperture: f/2.8 - 8 (wide) f/5.2 - 8
Computer - Printers - Television
All the necessary cables and software are supplied to attach the Sony Cybershot DSC HX1 to a computer, television set and compatible printer.
