Sony Cyber-Shot Black Digital Camera - DSC-H10B

Product Details

Sony Cyber-Shot Black Digital Camera, Model DSCH10B

Zoom in and capture all the action with the H10. This full-featured point-and-shoot shines, with outstanding high-power zoom capability and Advanced Sports mode for split-second detail. It includes Face Detection technology to optimize focus, exposure and color for up to eight faces. Snap incredibly clear photos with 8.1 megapixel resolution, and enjoy tight close-ups with the 10x optical zoom Carl Zeiss® lens. Sony's Double Anti-Blur solution helps keep your images blur-free, and the 3.0" Clear Photo LCD Plus™ display tilts for easily viewing your images and menu options. Also available in silver.

Video Demonstrations:
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• Face Detection Technology

Features:

• 8.1 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® 10X Optical Zoom Lens
  10X optical zoom provides a superb ability to bring long-distance subjects up close — a significant advantage for situations where you can’t be near the action, such as sporting events or wildlife photography.
• 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.
• 3.0” Large Clear Photo LCD Plus™ Display
  The large, bright 3.0” Clear Photo LCD Plus™ display tilts up for comfortable low-angle shooting, and an anti-reflective coating provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight.
• 31 MB Internal Memory
  Even if you forget your flash memory card, you can get the shot because 31 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.
• Advanced Sports Mode
  To capture fast-moving subjects in split-second detail, this innovative shooting mode combines high shutter speed (up to 1/4000 sec.) with Intelligent Continuous AF that responds more quickly to rapid motion -- a great way to catch the perfect moment in sports, children’s games, pet tricks and more.
• 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.
• Color Filter Kit
  Five color filter effects -- including Red, Green, Blue, Warm, and Cool -- provide the same effects via in-camera image processing that are typically achieved with colored lens filters. Each effect provides increased creative control when shooting.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 HDTV2. 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.
• 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 8 filters, including a “radial blur” effect and “retro” color tint and trimming function, as well as a soft edge filter to soften backgrounds, cross filter to place starry “dazzles” at highlight points, partial color filter to mute surrounding colors, or even a fish-eye filter to create interesting fish-eye lens effects.
• MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode
  Capture VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at a high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second6), with the length of your video limited only by the capacity of your media.
• “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 map9.
• 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.
• Versatile Flash
  Open up new opportunities with flash photography. A long distance flash is powerful enough to illuminate subjects up to 23 feet away. Auto Daylight Synchro provides effective fill-in flash illumination for backlit subjects, and Macro Flash lets you take ultra-close-up shots with optimal exposure and minimal “whiteout” effect.
  

Specifications:

Convenience

• Burst Mode: Yes
• Date/Time Stamp: No/ No
• Erase/Protect: Yes/Yes
• Media/Battery Indicator: Yes/Yes
• Memory Stick PRO™ Media Compatibility: Tested to support up to 8GB Memory Stick PRO Duo™ 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: Auto / On / Off
• Still Image Mode(s): Burst, Normal JPEG (Fine/Fine A4), 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 PRO Duo™ Media), MPEG VX Standard with Audio (640x480 at 16.6fps), QVGA(320x240 at 8.3fps).
• Power Save Mode: Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
• Scene Mode(s): Advanced Sports Shooting, Beach, Fireworks, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait
• AF Illuminator Light: Yes
• PictBridge Compatible: Yes
• Multi-Pattern Measuring: Yes
• SteadyShot® Image Stabilization: Yes
• In-Camera Editing: Red-eye correction, soft focus filter, trimming, cross filter, partial color filter, fish-eye filter

General

• Recording Media: Optional Memory Stick DUO™ Media, optional Memory Stick PRO DUO™ Media, optional Memory Stick PRO Duo™ (High Speed), optional Memory Stick PRO HG Duo™
• Imaging Device: 1/2.5" Super HAD™ CCD
  
• Megapixel: 8.1 MP

Inputs and Outputs

• Accessory Terminal: N/A
• Audio/Video Output(s): No
  
• USB Port(s): Yes -supports USB 2.0
• HD Output: Yes - 1080i (with optional accessory)

Operating Conditions

• Flash Mode(s): Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Slow Synch

Optics/Lens

• Total Zoom: 20x
• Optical Zoom: 10x
• Digital Zoom: 0-2.0X (Precision)
• Smart Zoom® Technology: 5M:Approx.12x(Total), 3M:Approx.15x(Total), VGA:Approx.51x(Total), 16:9(2M):Approx.17x(Total)
• Exposure Compensation: Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
• Focal Length: 6.3-63.0mm
• 35mm Equivalent: 38 - 380 mm
• Focus: 9 Area Multi-Point AF, Monitoring AF
• ISO: Auto/ 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200
• Shutter Speed: Auto(1/4 - 1/2,000) / Program Auto(1" - 1/2,000) / Manual(30" - 1/2,000)
• Aperture Range: Auto( F3.5/8.0(W)) / Program auto(F3.5/8.0(W)) / Manual(F3.5/8.0(W)) with ND Filte
• Macro Mode: Yes
• Face Detection: Yes

Power

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

Hardware

• LCD: 3.0"
• Viewfinder: N/A
• Lens Construction: 10 Elements in 9 Groups, including 1 Aspheric Element
• Microphone/Speaker: Yes/ Yes
• Lens Type: Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar®
• Docking Station: N/A

Software

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

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 Weight:

• Shipping: 2 lbs

Warranty Information:

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

Download Files (.pdf):

• Preliminary Spec Sheet
• Sony Digital Camera Warranty

On-Line Guides:

• PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Support

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.

Warranty

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Reviews

Actually better than expected!

By CJ from Las Vegas on 02/23/2009.

Describe Yourself:	Casual Photographer
Pros:	Strong Construction, Comfortable Controls, Great Image Quality, Bright LCD, Easy To Use, Fast Shutter Speed, Image Stabilization
Best Uses:	Travel, Fun

So far I've had nothing but good luck with this camera and it was a lot easier to use than I had anticipated. Also, very sturdy for it's weight! I've dropped it and nothing bad happened.

Wonderful pictures

By LS from North wales, PA on 12/5/2008.

Describe Yourself:	Casual Photographer
Pros:	Fast Shutter Speed, Bright LCD, Strong Construction, Lightweight, Quiet, Easy To Use, Comfortable Controls, Small Lag Time
Best Uses:	Fun, Sports

I brought this product to take pictures of my kids sporting events. The pictures are excellent and the zoom is fantastic. Love this camera. This is my third sony camera, I love sony.

my Sony, Love it even though it is moody

By i can c u from Cypress,Ca on 08/19/2008.

Pros:	Comfortable Controls, Strong Construction, Very user friendly
Describe Yourself:	Hobbyist/Enthusiast
Cons:	Slow Sensor, Blurry pics w autofocus, Lens filters a must, Telewide Lens a must, Need after market product, Shaky Operation
Best Uses:	Travel, Family and parties, Fun

If you are taking simple photo's of family and friends this is an ideal camera for you. If you like to take art photo's or portrait studio photo's, spend a little more and buy a SLR you can change the lenses on the camera body. This camera takes great in-out door photo's. Takes some shutter control to get the auto focus to work right but, overall it is a great camera. I do not recommend this if you are looking to do more advanced photo's.

Great camera!

By Court from Texas on 06/17/2008.

Pros:	Bright LCD, Strong Construction, Small Lag Time, Comfortable Controls, Quiet
Best Uses:	Fun, Travel
Describe Yourself:	Hobbyist/Enthusiast

I tried several cameras before deciding to stick with this one. Other cameras I tried were the Canon sx100is, Panasonic Lumix TZ4, Kodak Easyshare Z712, and finally the Canon S5. I really expected to like the Canon S5 the best, but this little camera out shot the Canon in most all conditions. The Sony, in my opinion, gave me the ability to quickly take pictures that consistently turned out well. The video is nice quality as long as you use the 'fine' mode. This is a nice little camera and I enjoy using it!

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User friendly

By John from Naples, FL on 06/17/2008.

Describe Yourself:	Casual user
Cons:	Exposed LCD
Pros:	Small Lag Time, Quiet, Comfortable Controls, Bright LCD, Strong Construction
Best Uses:	Travel, Fun

Great camera

Sony

By A H from Parsippany, NJ on 05/26/2008.

Describe Yourself:	Casual user
Best Uses:	Fun, Travel
Cons:	Slow Sensor, Exposed LCD
Pros:	Strong Construction, Comfortable Controls, Bright LCD

Good travel use, really good pictures. Sometimes its sensor operates slowly and sometimes it doesn't even response until I press the button a couple of times.

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