Black Cyber-shot W150 Digital Camera DSC-W150/B

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DSC-W150/B

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

Series highlights: 8.1 megapixel, 2.7" Clear Photo LCD™ display, Carl Zeiss 5x (30mm) Optical Zoom lens, Smile Shutter™ technology, Face Detection, Intelligent Scene Recognition, Super SteadyShot®, HD output and HD slideshow

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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.

2.7”¹ Clear Photo LCD Display

A large, bright 2.7”¹ 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.

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.

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 second⁷). The maximum length of time you can shoot continuously is about 10 minutes.

Smart Zoom® Feature⁵

The Sony Smart Zoom® feature⁵ intelligently “crops into” the central portion of interest in your photo, helping avoid the image degradation of other digital zooms.

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.

15 MB² Internal Memory

Even if you forget your flash memory card, you can get the shot because 15 MB² 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.

Easy Image Management

To help you find the right image among many, Date View and Favorites have been added to the standard Folder View. Date View displays a calendar view, while Favorites shows only user-selected images. Furthermore, you can filter photos by face types such as portrait, child, baby, and smile.

16:9 High-Resolution Mode

In addition to the standard 2-megapixel size, the convenient 16:9 aspect ratio shooting mode for HDTV3 display can now be shot in 7-megapixels, making it possible to obtain beautiful, high-definition prints with the same aspect ratio as HDTV.

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.

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.

Wide Angle Lens

Wide angle (30 mm-150mm4) lens captures more of the scene

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“PhotoTV HD”⁸

PhotoTV HD compatibility⁸ 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.

Photo Music ⁴

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.

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.

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.

Face Detection

Face Detection technology automatically controls flash, focus, exposure, and white balance to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eliminate harsh facial glare.

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.

Dynamic Range Optimization Standard & Plus

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

HDTV Compatibility³

High-resolution images can be enjoyed in all their beauty simply by connecting the camera directly to a Sony BRAVIA® HDTV or other compatible HDTV³. 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.

Wide Zoom Display

Wide Zoom Display --- To use the entire image area of the compatible HDTV3 screens, Wide Zoom automatically expands standard 4:3 and 3:2 images to 16:9.

In-Camera Red-Eye Correction

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.

BIONZ™

BIONZ™ image processor delivers speed and precision

Product Specifications

Convenience

Color Mode(s) : Black & White, Normal, Sepia, Vivid
Movie Mode(s) : MPEG VX Fine (640x480 at 30fps) (MPEG VX Fine requires Memory Stick DUO PRO™ media), MPEG VX Standard (640x480 at 16fps), 320 (QVGA, 320 x 240, Approx.8.3fps)
Removable Flash Media Compatibility : Tested to support up to 16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo^TM media capacity¹; does not support Access Control security function.
Scene Mode(s) : Auto, Easy Shooting, Program Auto, Movie, High Sensitivity, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Soft Snap, Landscape, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, Underwater
Still Image Mode(s) : Normal, Burst, Bracket Exposure
White Balance : Automatic, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent 1, Fluorescent 2, Fluorescent 3, Incandescent, Flash

General

Imaging Device : 1/2.5" Super HAD™ CCD
Megapixel : 8.1 MP
Recording Media : 15MB internal Flash Memory, optional Memory Stick Duo™ Media, optional Memory Stick PRO Duo™ Media

Interface

PictBridge Compatible : Yes

Power

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

Weights and Measurements

Dimensions (Approx.) : W x H x D: 3 11/16 x 2 5/16 x 15/16" (93.7mm x 58.0mm x 24.0mm)
Weight (Approx.) : Approx. 5 oz (142g)

Advanced Features

Image Stabilization : Yes
In-Camera Editing : Red-eye reduction, soft edge filter, cross filter, partial color filter, fish-eye filter, trimming, retro, radial blur, unsharp masking

Convenience Features

AF Illuminator Light : Auto/Off (W:Approx.2.0m, T:Approx.1.9m) to Auto/Off (W:Approx.2.0m, T:Approx.1.7m)
Date/Time Stamp : No/ No
Erase/Protect : Yes/Yes
Media/Battery Indicator : Yes/Yes
Multi-Pattern Measuring : Yes
Power Save Mode : Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
Real Imaging Processor™ Technology : N/A
Red-Eye Reduction : Yes (On/Off all modes)
Self Timer : Yes (10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off)

Hardware

Docking Station : Yes, via optional HD Cradle
LCD : 2.7"¹
Lens Construction : 9 elements in 7 groups(including 1ED glass element and 3aspheric elements)
Lens Type : Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar®
Microphone/Speaker : Yes/ Yes
Viewfinder : Optical

Operating Conditions

Flash Effective Range : ISO Auto: Approx.0.1-Approx.4.2(W) to ISO Auto: Approx.0.2-Approx.4.2(W)
Flash Mode(s) : Auto / Flash On / Slow Syncro / Flash Off

Service and Warranty Information

Limited Warranty Term : 1 Year Parts & Labor

Control

ISO : Auto / 80 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200

Drive System

Burst Mode : Max 100 Shots at 2.0fps

Inputs and Outputs

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

Optics/Lens

35mm Equivalent : 30 - 150mm
Aperture Range : Auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) / Program auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) with ND Filter
Digital Zoom : 0-2.0X (Precision)
Exposure Compensation : Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
Face Detection : Yes
Filter Diameter : N/A
Focal Length : 5-25mm
Focus : 9-Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF, Spot AF
Macro Mode : Yes
Minimum Focus Distance : 19-11/16"(50cm) Normal, 1-5/8" (4cm) Macro
Optical Zoom : 5x
Shutter Speed : Auto(1/4 - 1/1,600) / Program Auto(1" - 1/1,600)
Smart Zoom® Technology : 5M:Approx.6.3x(Total), 3M:Approx.8.0x(Total), VGA:Approx.25x(Total), 16:9(2M):Approx.8.5x(Total)
Total Zoom : 10x

Software

Operating System Compatibility : Microsoft® 2000 Professional, Me, XP Home and Professional; Macintosh® OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.0-10.4)
Supplied Software : Windows: Picture Motion Browser Vers 2.0 + USB Driver

In the Box

A/V and USB multi-connector cables
Note: No Memory Stick Duo™ media or adaptors are included.

NP-BG1 rechargeable battery
Wrist strap

BC-CSG battery charger
Software CD-ROM

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DSC-W150/B 4.4 5 14 17

Almost excelent I have this camera like 4 years now and I love it, the pictures are almost always sharp and have a good focus, easy to use very handy, easy to carry, simply great. But this camera also has a few small problems, if you want to shoot at a good quality of 8.1 mega-pixels it takes a very long time for the camera to take the picture. My dad has a Sony alpha 100 and a Sony alpha 540 and both of them take pictures almost at the speed of light. This camera needs like 2 seconds to take the picture and you better not move it at that time. Further this camera makes the most excellent shots and i hope to be able to continue to work with it for some more years. February 12, 2011

Not the Best This camera is decent, but it does not have good video quality at all! The videos end up looking like a picture slideshow because it is so slow. The picture quality is really good if you have a lot of light, evening and night pictures are very bad! This camera has amusing features (smile shutter and twilight mode) but I wouldn't recommend it. April 21, 2010

Great Camera With A Glitch This camera is great. Ive been able to take some great photos with it, and I really dont have much to complain about, except for a few things. One, when I try to take a good night shot there isnt much flexibility in what I can do with the settings, and also just lately my camera decided that out of the blue it wasnt going to focus, and when I turn it off, it wont come back on. It sounds as if the lens is out of place or something, but it just happens out of nowhere. March 31, 2009

simply awsome! I just purchased this camera recently and the picture quality is amazing! It has so many features and yet is so neat and compact, great product sony! February 25, 2009

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VIEW 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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