Sony Cyber-Shot Silver Digital Camera - DSC-T300

Product Details

Sony Cyber-Shot Silver Digital Camera, Model DSCT300

• (subject to change without notice)

On-Line Guides:

• PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Support

Video Demonstrations:
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• Face Detection Technology
• HD Output
• Picture Motion Browser

This camera refuses to go unnoticed. The Sony DSC-T300 offers excellent performance and an elegant, sophisticated design. It includes Smile Shutter technology to help capture smiles automatically as they happen, as well as Face Detection technology to optimize focus, exposure and color for up to eight faces. The compact body features 10.1 megapixel resolution and a beautiful, wide 3.5" touch-screen LCD for easy operation. In addition, Intelligent Scene Recognition automatically selects your camera's settings based on detected lighting conditions. The DSC-T300 completes the package with a Carl Zeiss® 5x optical zoom lens and Sony's Double Anti-Blur solution, for crisp, clear images. Also available in black and red.

Features:

• 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.
• 3.5” Widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus™ Display
  A huge 3.5” widescreen Clear Photo LCD Plus™ 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 3display can now be shot in 7-megapixels, making it possible to obtain beautiful, high-definition prints with the same aspect ratio as HDTV.
• 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.
• 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. (Learn More)
• 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. (Learn More)
• 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.
• Enhanced Paint Function
  In-camera retouching continues with the ability to “paint” decorative borders or graphic stamps like hearts, stars, arrows, and hand drawn words or symbols to add charm and fun to photos you save, print, or send via e-mail (Internet connection required).
• Face Detection technology
  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. (Learn More)
• 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. (Learn More)
• 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. (Learn More)
• 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.
• 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 Icon Setup Controls
  To the left and right of the image area on your widescreen display, simple icons allow quick touch-screen operation of essential camera functions. The icons can be switched off to provide a full 16:9 widescreen view of your photos -- and the on-screen Function Guide display helps you learn camera setup operations.
• 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! (Learn More)
• 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 HDTV screens, Wide Zoom automatically expands standard 4:3 images to 16:9.
• BIONZ™ imaging processor
  The BIONZ™ Imaging Processor delivers the high resolution and fast performance you expect from a Sony® digital camera. (Learn More)

Specifications:

Convenience

• Burst Mode: 100 shots at 1.6 fps
• Date/Time Stamp: No/ No
• Erase/Protect: Yes/Yes
• Media/Battery Indicator: Yes/Yes
• Memory Stick PRO™ Media Compatibility: Tested to support up to 32GB Memory Stick DUO PRO media capacity; does not support Access Control security function.
• Color Mode(s): Black & White, Natural, Sepia, Vivid
• Red-Eye Reduction: Yes (On/Off all modes)
• Self Timer: Yes (10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off)
• Still Image Mode(s): Burst, JPEG (Fine), Exposure Bracketing
• 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 16.6fps), Presentation Mode (320 x 240 at 8.3fps).
• Power Save Mode: Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
• Scene Mode(s): Beach, Fireworks, High Speed Shutter, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Smile Shutter, and underwater
• Real Imaging Processor™ Technology: Yes - Bionz
• AF Illuminator Light: Yes
• PictBridge Compatible: Yes
• Multi-Pattern Measuring: Yes
• SteadyShot® Image Stabilization: Yes
• In-Camera Editing: Red-eye correction, soft edge filter, cross filter, partial color filter, fish-eye filter, retro, radiation, trimming

General

• Megapixel: 10.1 MP
• 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

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) with optional accesory

Operating Conditions

• Flash Effective Range: ISO Auto: Approx.0.1-Approx.3.5m(W) / Approx.0.8-Approx.2.7m(T), ISO3200: up to Approx.7.2m(W) / Approx.5.5m(T)
• Flash Mode(s): Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Slow Synch

Optics/Lens

• Total Zoom: 10X
• Optical Zoom: 5X
• Digital Zoom: 2X (Precision)
• Smart Zoom® Technology: Up to 6.3X (5MP), 8.0X (3MP), 8.5X (16:9 2MP) 25X (VGA Resolution)
• Exposure Compensation: ±2.0 EV, 1/3 EV Step Increments
• Minimum Focus Distance: 19-11/16" (50cm) Normal, 3-1/8" (8cm) Macro, 3/8" (1cm) Magnifying Glass
• Focal Length: 5.8 - 29mm
• 35mm Equivalent: 33 - 165 mm
• Focus: 9 Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF, Flexible Spot
• ISO: Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
• Shutter Speed: Auto(1/4 - 1/1,000) / Program Auto(1" - 1/1,000)
• Aperture Range: Auto(F3.5-F10) / Program Auto(F3.5-F10)
• Filter Diameter: N/A
• Macro Mode: Yes
• Face Detection: Yes
• Focal Distance: W:Approx. 3 1/8" (8cm) to Infinity, T:Approx. 31 1/2"(80cm) to Infinity; Close Focus Enabled: .3/8"(1cm) to 7 7/8" (20cm)
• 35mm Equivalent: Yes

Power

• Battery Capacity: 3.6V, 680 mAh
• Battery Type: Lithium-Ion NP-BD1

Processor

• Bionz™ Engine: Yes (LSI with Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO))

Hardware

• LCD: 3.5" Widescreen (230K Pixels) Clear Photo LCD Plus screen
• Viewfinder: N/A
• Lens Construction: 12 Elements in 10 Groups, 3 Aspheric Elements, 1 prism
• Microphone/Speaker: Yes/ Yes
• Lens Type: Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar®
• Docking Station: Yes, via optional HD Cradle

Software

• Operating System Compatibility: Microsoft® 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional, and Vista; Macintosh® OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.4)
• Supplied Software: Windows: Picture Motion Browser Vers 2.1 + USB Driver

Supplied Accesories

• NP-BD1 rechargeable battery
• BC-CSD battery charger
• A/V and USB multi-connector cables
• Wrist strap
• Paint Pen Software CD-ROM
• Note: No Memory Stick® DUO media or adaptors are included.

Approximate Dimensions:

• Width: 3.69"
• Height: 2.31"
• Depth: 0.81"

Approximate Weight:

• Shipping: 1 lbs

Warranty Information:

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

Footnotes:

1. Viewable area; measured diagonally.
2. Available storage capacity may vary and a portion of the memory is used for data management functions.
3. HD viewing requires a Sony HD connector cable or HD Cyber-shot Station® Cradle and HDTV. All sold separately.
4. 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.
5. Smart Zoom® feature will not work at highest Resolution setting.
6. Up to 6 shots while in Smile Shutter mode
7. Shooting at high frame rate of up to 30 frames per second requires Memory Stick PRO Duo™ Media.
8. Special TV settings are required. Further details are available in the BRAVIA® instruction manual.

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