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Extending your mastery over light and colour 3-inch Xtra Fine LCD screen for ultra high resolution playback
Easy dial access to basic exposure and scene modes
The mode dial on the top of the provides direct access to Program, Aperture priority,
Shutter priority and Manual exposure modes, as well as a fully automatic Auto mode and six
Scene Selection modes. Scene Selection modes apply optimised AF, drive mode, exposure,
brightness, contrast, and other settings appropriate to each type of scene – for beautiful
portraits, landscapes, sunsets, sports, macro photos and night scenes.
Auto mode
Allows the camera to determine exposure and restrictions applied
to other setting changes. Also, most photo shooting parameters are
reset when Auto mode is selected
Program mode
Shutter speed and aperture are set automatically, while other
settings can be adjusted and saved
Aperture priority mode
User sets aperture manually; camera selects optimum shutter
speed automatically
Shutter priority mode
User sets shutter speed manually; camera selects optimum
aperture automatically
Manual exposure mode User sets both aperture and shutter speed
Memory recall mode
Memory Recall of complete camera configuration. 28 individual
parameters can be stored in 3 memories
Portrait For beautiful portraits with soft background defocusing
Landscape For crisp, vivid images of distant scenery and foreground subjects
Macro For clear, sharp images of flowers, insects and other small subjects
Sports action For sharp images of fast-moving subjects in bright light
Sunset For sunset images with rich red tones
Night view/portrait
For beautiful images of night scenes/For balanced exposures
of foreground subjects and background lights
Versatile white balance colour control options
Under normal shooting conditions, Auto white balance captures
natural colours just as they’re perceived by the human eye.
There’s also a range of preset and custom modes to achieve
precisely the effect you want. In addition, white balance
bracketing captures three frames at different white balance
settings for easy best-shot selection.
Built-in fl ash plus external fl ash synchro
The built-in fl ash offers a versatile range of modes, a guide
number of 12 (ISO 100–m), and a maximum synchronisation
speed of 1/250 sec. (1/200 sec. with Super SteadyShot
®
).
A new manual control mode allows users to regulate fl ash
power regardless of metered exposure values. A synchro
terminal enables the use of high-power grip-type external
fl ash units and multi-fl ash studio systems.
AWB
(
Auto WB
)
Adjusts white balance automatically
Daylight
For outdoor subjects in bright sunlight
(+3 to -3)
Shade
For outdoor subjects in shady areas on
sunny days (+3 to -3)
Cloudy
For outdoor subjects under cloudy skies
(+3 to -3)
Tungsten
For indoor subjects illuminated by
incandescent light (+3 to -3)
Fluorescent
For indoor subjects illuminated by
fluorescent light (+4 to -2)
Flash
For indoor subjects illuminated by flash
(+3 to -3)
Custom 1-3 /
Custom set-up
For user-configurable custom white
balance settings
Colour temperature
For white balance setting by colour
temperature (2500K - 9900K)
Colour filter
For white balance setting by filter type
(G9 - M9)
White balance settings
Built-in flashExternal synchro
terminal
921,000 dot resolution for
ultra-sharp image display
On-the-spot image review is one of the
fundamental benefi ts of digital photography.
The maximises this advantage with its large
new 3-inch, Xtra Fine LCD screen. With a pixel
count approximately four times higher than typical
230K dot screens and contrast approximately
2.8 times higher than previous generation
Sony LCD screens, it offers a photo quality screen
display resolution of 270 dpi, higher even than the
200 dpi required for printing. Hybrid construction
and an anti-refl ective coating ensure that focus
and fi ne details are easy to check – even when
viewing outdoors.
New RGB histogram and index
display options
The new 3-inch LCD monitor offers a range of new
viewing and information display options. In addition
to conventional histogram and fl ashing highlight/
shadow warning displays, RGB histogram colour
balance checking is now added. A new view mode
displays fi ve preceding/following frames above
the current frame. This greatly simplifi es best-shot
selection from a series of bracketed or sequential
images. Index view displays 4, 9, or 25 thumbnail
frames simultaneously.
4-frame index view 25-frame index view
Single-frame view
(with shooting info)
Single-frame view
(with 4 previous/following images)
With coating
(low reflectivity, high visibility)
Without coating
(high reflectivity, low visibility)
B channel
G channel
R channel
Luminance
Anti-reflective coating assures
excellent visibility outdoors
Colour temperature: 5500 k
White balance bracketing
Colour temperature: 5000 k Colour temperature: 6200 k
*Image is simulated.
Expanded creativity Beautifully simple operation
