Product Details

Sony DSCW170 Red Cyber-Shot Digital Camera, Model DSCW170R

The Sony DSC-W170 matches point-and-shoot ease-of-use with advanced features to pack a powerful punch. The sophisticated, compact body features an enviable 10.1 megapixel resolution, Carl Zeiss� 5x optical zoom lens, and Sony's Double Anti-Blur solution for crisp, clear images. For easy viewing and sharing, the large 2.7" LCD displays your shots in vibrant color. In addition, Face Detection technology, Smile Shutter, and Intelligent Scene Recognition elicit stunning detail from special moments. Also available in black, gold and silver.

Video Demonstrations:
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Face Detection Technology

Features:

HDTV Compatibility
High-resolution images can be enjoyed in all their beauty simply by connecting the camera directly to a Sony BRAVIA� HDTV or other compatible HDTV. This provides an excellent alternative to viewing photos as prints or on a computer monitor, and is ideal for users who want to share photos in the comfort of their living room. Optional HD solutions include a Cyber-shot� cradle/charger with component cable output, or component cable directly to your HDTV.
10.1 MP Super HAD� CCD
More megapixels give you more detail and definition when you make big prints or crop in tight on your subject. The advanced Sony� Super HAD� (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
Carl Zeiss� 5X Optical Zoom Lens
5X optical zoom gives you the power to get even closer to the action -- a real benefit for distant landscape views and dramatic portraits.
9-Point Auto Focus
Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, a 9-point auto focus measures auto-focus at 9 precision points instead of 5 -- giving you greater creative freedom to compose your image.
2.7� Clear Photo LCD Display
A large, bright 2.7� Clear Photo LCD display includes an anti-reflective coating that provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight.
15 MB Internal Memory
Even if you forget your flash memory card, you can get the shot because 15 MB internal memory lets you capture a limited number of shots with in-camera convenience, then easily transfer your shots to a PC or optional Memory Stick Duo� media.
Memory Stick Duo� Media Convenience
A built-in slot accepts optional Memory Stick Duo� media or Memory Stick PRO Duo� media -- the compact, high-capacity storage media that make it easily to upload photos to your PC and are compatible with millions of devices worldwide.
16:9 High-Resolution Mode
In addition to the standard 2-megapixel size, the convenient 16:9 aspect ratio shooting mode for HDTV display can now be shot in 7-megapixels, making it possible to obtain beautiful, high-definition prints with the same aspect ratio as HDTV.
Automatic Macro Shooting
Standard Auto Focus now covers the macro focus range, eliminating the need to manually change focus modes for close-up photography. The Macro mode has not been eliminated, and enabling it accelerates Auto Focus when shooting at point-blank range.
Burst Mode-2
You can fire off three shots automatically at 1-second intervals (VGA standard mode) or 2-second intervals (full resolution mode) -- a great way to capture a child�s first steps or a pet�s best tricks.
Convenient Photo Modes
To adjust quickly for specific shooting situations, you can choose from several convenient photo modes, including Auto, Program Auto, and Scene Selections such as Twilight, Landscape, Soft Snap, Snow, High Sensitivity, and Beach environments.
Dynamic Range Optimization
Powered by the exclusive Sony Bionz� high-speed processing engine, Dynamic Range Optimization preserves image data in bright highlights and reveals more detail in shadows or backlit areas -- for great results even in difficult lighting conditions.
Easy Image Management
To help you find the right image among many, Date View Mode and Favorites Mode have been added to the standard Folder View. Date View Mode displays a calendar view, while Favorites Mode shows only user-selected images. Furthermore, you can filter photos by face types such as portrait, child, baby, and smile.
Easy Shooting Mode
A simplified camera environment especially attractive to beginners or digital camera users who want to keep things simple, Easy Shooting provides easy-to-read, on-screen instructions and limits the number of camera settings to help prevent misuse of the camera while still providing excellent results.
Face Detection-2
Face Detection technology automatically controls focus, exposure, color, and flash to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eliminate harsh facial glare, so your photos bring out every expression on every face in every shot.
Function Guide
This beginner-friendly function helps manage various functions and settings by displaying the description of chosen functions or settings on the LCD screen. The Function Guide can also be switched off.
HD Slide Show with Music
It�s the high-definition viewing experience that makes photos more entertaining to watch, accompanied by your choice of visual effects and any of four preset musical selections stored in memory or your favorite music downloaded from PC to your camera for use as background music.
High Sensitivity (ISO 3200) Mode
With high sensitivity of ISO 3200, you can shoot effectively in low light without flash to preserve the mood, while the Sony Clear RAW� Noise Reduction system helps suppress the color noise that can degrade low-light shots.
In-Camera Retouching
Add creative effects to photos after you shoot using any of 10 editing functions, including: Trimming, Red-Eye adjustment, Soft Focus filter, Unsharp Mask, Cross filter, Partial Color filter, Fish-eye filter, Retro, Radial Blur and Happy Face. The Happy Face effect uses photo retouching to put a smile on faces, with smile levels adjustable from 1 to 5.
In-Camera Red-Eye Reduction
Irritating �glowing eyes� can ruin even the most creative photos, but in-camera red eye reduction corrects your photos at the touch of a button to reduce lingering red-eye effect that other systems might miss.
Intelligent Scene Recognition Mode
Intelligent Scene Recognition mode automatically detects six different types of scenes and selects the appropriate camera setting: Backlight, Backlight & Portrait, Twilight, Twilight & Portrait, Twilight with Tripod and Portrait. Intelligent Scene Recognition has two different modes, advanced and auto. Advanced mode takes two shots, one with the standard automatic settings and the other with optimized settings. Auto mode takes a single shot, arbitrarily deciding on the proper setting.
MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode
Capture VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at a high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second), with the length of your video limited only by the capacity of your media.
Multi-Resizing Function
Resize your photos in-camera for virtually any purpose! Standard 4:3 images can be resized to widescreen 16:9 and 2 MP resolution for display on an HDTV. Conversely, high resolution, widescreen 16:9 images can be resized to 4:3 size with VGA (640 x 480) resolution -- perfect for sharing with friends and family via e-mail (internet connection required). A simple 4-direction touch-screen control also makes it easy to trim photos.
Optical Viewfinder
In addition to the LCD display, a built-in optical viewfinder lets you compose your photos in traditional rangefinder camera style, and also helps save battery power by turning off your LCD display.
Photo Music
Expanding the HD Slide Show with Music feature, PHOTOMUSIC combines images with music to produce fun and entertaining slide shows. The five standard visual effects (Simple, Basic, Nostalgic, Active and Stylish) have been supplemented with Face1: Basic, Face2: Nostalgic and Face3: Stylish for a total of eight effects. Additionally, the number of music tracks stored in the camera memory has been doubled from four to eight, and music playback time has been extended from three to five minutes per track. More personalized slide shows are also possible by transferring music from a PC to the camera.
�PhotoTV HD�
PhotoTV HD compatibility allows the camera to be connected to a PhotoTV HD-capable Sony BRAVIA� HDTV via the optional HD output adaptor, for highly detailed, high-definition color images displayed in unprecedented realism and full HD quality.
Picture Motion Browser Software
Supplied software makes it easier to upload, organize, and search photos on your PC. When shooting photos using your camera and an optional GPS unit, the software even provides a convenient map view function that lets you sort photos by location and display their origin on a world map.
Simple Setup Controls
A quick press of the Home button opens your user-friendly graphical interface -- and you can select functions by simply moving a cursor vertically or horizontally to the appropriate icon. Function names and the on-screen Function Guide display make it easier to learn camera setup operations.
Smart Zoom� Feature
The Sony Smart Zoom� feature intelligently �crops into� the central portion of interest in your photo, helping avoid the image degradation of other digital zooms.
Smile Shutter Mode
Smile Shutter Mode helps you capture smiles automatically as they happen6. Used in conjunction with Face Detection technology, Smile Shutter is able to differentiate between children and adults, and can be set to automatically shoot a picture when your subject laughs, smiles, or even grins -- only when focus is fixed. You select the person to watch and the expression to catch -- your Cyber-shot� camera does the rest!
Sony Double Anti-Blur Solution
The combination of Super SteadyShot� optical image stabilization and high ISO sensitivity helps compensate for shaky hands, minimizes blur, and allow flash-free shooting to preserve the mood.
Stamina� Battery Power
Provides extended battery life and shooting capacity when using a fully charged Lithium Ion battery-- enough to cover a long weekend or a whole vacation.
Super SteadyShot� Optical Image Stabilization
Super SteadyShot� Image Stabilization compensates for shaky hands and minimizes blur with optical sensors that detect camera movement and send correcting signals to a stabilization lens -- so there�s no need to crop in on your shot to reduce blur.
Wide Zoom Display
To use the entire image area of the camera�s widescreen LCD and compatible HDTV3 screens, Wide Zoom automatically expands standard 4:3 images to 16:9.

Specifications:

Convenience

Burst Mode: Max 100 Shots at 1.6fps (All resolutions)
Date/Time Stamp: No/ No
Erase/Protect: Yes/Yes
Media/Battery Indicator: Yes/Yes
Memory Stick PRO� Media Compatibility: Tested to support up to 16GB Memory Stick DUO PRO media capacity; does not support Access Control security function.
Color Mode(s): Black & White, Natural, Sepia, Vivid
Self Timer: Yes (10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off)
Red-Eye Reduction: Yes (On/Off all modes)
Still Image Mode(s): Normal, Burst, Bracket Exposure
White Balance: Automatic, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent 1, Fluorescent 2, Fluorescent 3, Incandescent, Flash

Convenience Features

Movie Mode(s): MPEG VX Fine with Audio (640x480 at 30fps) (MPEG VX Fine requires Memory Stick DUO PRO� media), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640x480 at 16fps), Presentation (320 x 240 at 8fps)
Power Save Mode: Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
Scene Mode(s): Beach, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, and Underwater.
Real Imaging Processor� Technology: BIONZ
AF Illuminator Light: Auto/Off (W:Approx.2.0m, T:Approx.1.9m) to Auto/Off (W:Approx.2.0m, T:Approx.1.7m)
PictBridge Compatible: Yes
Multi-Pattern Measuring: Yes
SteadyShot� Image Stabilization: Yes
In-Camera Editing: Trimming, Red Eye Correction, Soft Focus, Partial Color, Fisheye Lens, Cross Filter, Retro, Radial Blur, Unsharp Masking, and Happy Face.

General

Recording Media: 15MB internal Flash Memory, optional Memory Stick� DUO Media, optional Memory Stick DUO PRO� Media
Imaging Device: 1/2.3" Super HAD� CCD
Megapixel: 10.1 MP

Inputs and Outputs

Accessory Terminal: Multi connector
Audio/Video Output(s): Yes via Mutli-Use Connector
USB Port(s): Yes -supports USB 2.0
HD Output: Yes (1080i)

Operating Conditions

Flash Effective Range: ISO Auto: (W):Approx. 0.2 - Approx. 4.2m / (T):Approx. 0.5 - Approx. 2.7m; ISO 3200: (W): uo to Approx. 8.4m / (T):Approx. 5.3m
Flash Mode(s): Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Slow Synch

Optics/Lens

Total Zoom: 10x
Optical Zoom: 5x
Digital Zoom: 0-2.0X (Precision)
Smart Zoom� Technology: Smart Zoom / Precision Digital Zoom / Off
Exposure Compensation: Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
Minimum Focus Distance: W: Approx. 3 15/16(10cm) - Infinity / T: Approx. 19 11/16(50cm) - Infinity
Focal Length: 5-25mm
35mm Equivalent: 28-140mm
Focus: 9-Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF, Spot AF, Semi Manual Focus (0.5m / 1.0m / 3.0m / 7.0m / Unlimited distance)
ISO: Auto / 80 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200
Shutter Speed: Auto(1/4 - 1/1,600) / Program Auto(1" - 1/1,600)
Aperture Range: Auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) / Program auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) with ND Filter
Filter Diameter: N/A
Macro Mode: Yes
Face Detection: Yes

Power

Battery Capacity: 3.6V, 960 mAh
Battery Type: Lithium-Ion NP-BG1

Hardware

LCD: 2.7" Clear Photo LCD (230K Pixels)
Viewfinder: Optical
Lens Construction: 9 elements in 7 groups(including 1ED Glass element and 3aspheric elements)
Microphone/Speaker: Yes/ Yes
Lens Type: Carl Zeiss� Vario-Tessar�
Docking Station: Yes, via optional HD Cradle (CSS-HD2)

Software

Operating System Compatibility: Microsoft� 2000 Professional, XP Home and Professional; Macintosh� OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.5)
Supplied Software: Windows: Picture Motion Browser Vers 3.0.02 + USB Driver

Accessories Supplied

NP-BG1 rechargeable battery
BC-CSG battery charger
A/V and USB multi-connector cables
Wrist strap
Software CD-ROM
Note: No Memory Stick� DUO media or adaptors are included.

Approximate Dimensions:

Width: 3.56"
Height: 2.31"
Depth: 0.88"

Approximate Weight:

Unit: 5.5 oz
Shipping: 1 lbs

Warranty Information:

Manufacturers Warranty (authorized online retailer):
1 Year Parts & Labor

Download Files (.pdf):

On-Line Guides:

PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Support

Footnotes:

Viewable area; measured diagonally.
Available storage capacity may vary and a portion of the memory is used for data management functions.
HD viewing requires a Sony HD connector cable or HD Cyber-shot Station� Cradle and HDTV. All sold separately.
Music tracks can be up to five minutes long. When using Music Transfer to download music, tracks longer than five minutes will be reduced to five minutes when uploading to the Cyber-shot.
Smart Zoom� feature will not work at highest Resolution setting.
Up to 6 shots while in Smile Shutter mode.
Shooting at high frame rate of up to 30 frames per second requires Memory Stick PRO Duo� Media.
Special TV settings are required. Further details are available in the BRAVIA� instruction manual.