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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W290 digital camera facilities Intelligent Auto mode, a 28mm wide-angle lens, automatically detects 8 stage conditions as good as selects a suitable camera settings. Face Detection captures faces some-more of course as good as helps forestall blur. Also, right divided jot down high-definition videos in 720p HD as good as suffer your memories upon your HDTV.

Cyber-shot DSC-W290 Highlights

12.1-megapixel Super HAD CCD Image Sensor
A absolute 12.1-megapixel, 1/2.3-inch Super HAD CCD design sensor helps we constraint pleasing images with stately contrariety as good as distinctness down to a excellent detail. With 12.1 megapixels, we can emanate stunning, photo-quality prints up to A3+ (13×19-inch) size, or stand your images as good as still come divided with high-resolution shots.

Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens with 5x Optical Zoom
The professional-quality Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 5x visible wizz lens brings apart subjects closer for good outdoor, sports, as good as transport photos.

Wide-angle lens
A 28mm far-reaching point of perspective lens shows some-more of a stage you’re shooting, assisting we constraint some-more finish images when sharpened indoor organisation portraits, expanded landscapes, or architectural scenes.

3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD arrangement (230k pixels)
Generous 3.0-inch (230K pixels) Clear Photo LCD arrangement facilities sharp, healthy tinge which creates it easy to harmonise shots, examination menus, as good as perspective photos, even in splendid sunlight.

BIONZ design processor
The BIONZ design processor delivers a tall fortitude as good as quick opening we design from a Sony digital camera.

Intelligent Auto Mode
Unlike normal automobile mode, Intelligent Auto (iAuto) thinks for you, noticing scenes, lighting conditions, faces, as good as adjusts settings ensuing transparent images, faces with healthy skin tinge as good as reduction blur. Take value of all a jot down though withdrawal Auto mode. Take a design from a child upon a playground, to landscape shots, to a pleasing flowering plant or an indoor birthday party.

HD Movie
Capture some-more of your memories in tall clarification (720p) video. Record HD cinema in 720p tall clarification MPEG4 format for overwhelming large-screen home film playback. Record up to twenty-nine min in 720p format (or up to 2GB) per movie.

Intelligent Scene Recognition
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode automatically detects 8 opposite sorts of scenes conditions (Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Twilight regulating a Tripod, Portrait, Landscape, as good as Macro) as good as inside of 1/30th of a second selects a suitable camera settings. iSCN has 2 modes: Auto as good as Advanced. In Auto Mode, a camera takes a singular shot regulating a optimal settings. In Advance Mode, a camera takes a print with a customary involuntary settings and, in formidable lighting (low light or behind light) rught away takes a second print with optimized sourroundings so we can name which to keep.

Face Detection technology
Face Detection jot down detects up to 8 particular faces as good as controls flash, focus, exposure, as good as white shift to broach accurate, healthy skin tones with marked down red-eye. It can additionally give priority to young kids or adults. Newly combined Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO attraction as good as accelerates a shiver speed when facial transformation is detected, shortening fuzz in a subjects face.

Priority Face Selection
Optimizing focus, exposure, as good as white shift for a specific face is simpler right divided with selectable facial memory, even when a theme leaves a frame. This underline is undiluted during weddings as good as alternative events a idea is regularly to concentration upon a sure person.

Anti-blink Function
It’s frustrating to consider you’ve prisoner which undiluted shot, usually to examination it after as good as find a single of your subjects blinked usually as we pulpy a shutter. The Anti-blink duty functions to assistance opposite blinking as good as squinting. When a camera is set to Soft Snap, a Anti-blink duty captures dual images, recording usually a print with reduction squinting. If a wink is rescued in alternative sharpened modes, a notice will be displayed after we take a shot.

Red-eye Reductions
Helps revoke usual red-eye problems.

Smile Shutter Technology
The renouned Smile Shutter jot down automatically detects as good as captures a smiling face. Simply turn upon by dire a Smile Shutter symbol as good as a camera will constraint a laugh a impulse it happens. You can additionally name theme priority (Adult or Child Priority or regulating a cranky pass buttons upon a camera) as good as prove a grade of Smile Detection Sensitivity to tall (small smile), middle (laugh) or low (grin). Great surrogate of self timer, laugh once all have been ready as good as a camera will constraint a smile.

Double Anti-blur Solution
The multiple of Optical SteadyShot design stabilization as good as High ISO attraction helps recompense for unsure hands, minimizes blur, as good as allows flash-free sharpened to safety a mood.

Optical SteadyShot Image Stabilization
Optical SteadyShot design stabilization uses a built-in gyro sensor to acknowledge camera shake up as good as automatically shifts a lens to assistance forestall fuzz though sacrificing design quality.

High Sensitivity Mode (ISO 3200)
High ISO allows for faster shiver speed, so we can take photos indoors or in low light though a need for a flash. In further to High Sensitivity Mode (ISO), we can name up to 8 ISO settings (Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200) when sharpened in Program Auto Mode to regulate attraction to your sharpened conditions.

Dynamic Range Optimizer Standard as good as Plus
Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) Standard as good as Plus uses a worldly algorithm to establish a most appropriate bearing as good as contrariety settings for roughly any sharpened environment. The outcome is some-more healthy images with clearer sum which some-more closely compare what your exposed eye sees. DRO is quite in effect when sharpened backlit portraits or any stage with a thespian contrariety in between credentials as good as forehead lighting. DRO Plus allows for even larger optimization by analyzing any segment of an design as good as behaving a single some-more design processing.

Convenient Photo Modes
Choose from thirteen available print modes to fast regulate for specific sharpened conditions. Photo modes embody iAuto, Easy, Program, as good as Scene Selection such as High Sensitivity, Landscape, Soft Snap, Twilight Portrait, Twilight, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Underwater as good as Gourmet Mode. Gourmet Mode lets we constraint appetizing culinary creations with all a tinge as good as distinctness of images we see in epicurean magazines.

9-Point Auto Focus
Because an off-centered theme can have your shot some-more interesting, a 9-point automobile concentration complement measures 9 pointing concentration points, giving we larger beautiful leisure to harmonise your images.

Burst Mode
You can glow up to 100 shots during we estimate 0.62 second intervals (at any resolution; VGA to tall fortitude mode. Results might shift formed upon settings as good as Memory Stick media being used).

Function Guide
This beginner-friendly discretionary duty helps navigate by a assorted functions as good as settings displaying a outline of selected functions or settings upon a LCD screen.

Simplified Buttons
Buttons as good as menus have been made easy to get a fastest as good as easiest patron experience. Shooting dial concentration upon a arrange of customer: Easy, smart Auto, Scene, Program as good as Movie. Also most usual used functions such as Zoom, Play as good as Delete have been accessible in tough buttons. All alternative functions can be found underneath a single menu button.

Easy Shooting Mode
With Easy Shooting Mode, even beginners can take good photos. In Easy Shooting Mode, easy-to-understand elementary instructions have been displayed upon a LCD shade as good as a camera switches to all involuntary settings with iSCN so we can usually take a print though worrying about settings. The menu is additionally made easy upon playback to yield singular though true brazen handling functions for those fearful of selecting wrong settings.

16:9 High Resolution Mode
Using a 16:9 High Resolution Mode, we can jot down tall fortitude images in a 16:9 aspect comparative measure adored by HDTVs. This sourroundings is preferred if we devise to perspective your images upon a concordant HDTV as good as entice friends as good as family members underneath for a slideshow.

Memory Stick Duo Media Convenience
The Cyber-shot DSC-W290 camera accepts Memory Stick PRO Duo media (sold separately).

Stamina Battery Power
Provides lengthened battery hold up as good as sharpened genius when regulating a fully-charged lithium-ion battery. The enclosed battery supports up to 220 shots.

Easy Image Management
Easy Image Management takes a con out of classification by vast volumes of design data, so we can fast name as good as perspective your preferred photos. Photos can be browsed in 4 available ways: by Standard Folder view, Date view, Event view, as good as Favorites arrangement usually user-selected images. You can additionally strap a energy of Face Detection jot down to filter by face arrange (choices embody All People, Children, Infants, as good as Smiles).

In-Camera Retouching Tools
Retouch as good as raise your cinema upon a go with 10 in-camera modifying functions: Trimming, Red-Eye Correction, Soft Focus, Partial Color, Fisheye Lens, Cross Filter, Radial Blur, Retro, Happy Face as good as Unsharp Masking effects.

Multi-purpose Resize function
The Multi-purpose Resize duty lets we shift a aspect comparative measure of an design right in a camera, so we can regulate images as necessary, either we wish to arrangement them upon a concordant HDTV, or e-mail them/upload them to a blog.

HDTV Compatibility
View your photos as good as videos in stately tall clarification upon a Sony BRAVIA or identical HDTV regulating a discretionary VMC-MHC2 HD outlay adapter wire (sold separately).

PhotoTV HD
Bring your photos to hold up as good as suffer rarely detailed, tall clarification images with PhotoTV HD-capable Sony BRAVIA HDTVs. PhotoTV HD excellent tunes settings upon your HDTV, such as sharpness, gradation, as good as tinge to arrangement images which demeanour some-more similar to tangible printed photos.

Wide Zoom display
To make use of a complete design area of a concordant HDTV shade (sold separately), Wide Zoom arrangement automatically expands customary 4:3 as good as 3:2 images to 16:9.

PHOTOMUSIC feature
PHOTOMUSIC combines images with song (5 mins per track) to furnish fun as good as interesting slip shows. The customary visible goods (Simple, Nostalgic, Active, as good as Stylish). Select from pre-loaded marks upon camera or send your own from your concordant Personal Computer (sold separately).

Picture Motion Browser ver. 4.2.02
Sony PMB (Picture Motion Browser ) Personal Computer program provides a simple, easy-to-use approach to send video as good as still images to your PC, as good as sort, edit, as good as outlay to interpretation front as good as a Web (compatible Personal Computer with internet tie required). Finding your images with PMB is easy with Calendar perspective as good as Face Search. Face Search allows we to filter by faces (one or many) as good as additionally a specific person’s face. Share images as good as videos upon renouned pity sites with Media Services function.

Product Description

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W290 camera combines character with energy as good as intelligence. The W290 comes in 4 worldly colors as good as has a in vogue look. With a W290 receiving good cinema is right divided simpler than ever. The iAuto mode goes over a normal automobile mode, meditative as good as operative for you; noticing scenes, lighting conditions, faces, as good as automatically adjusts camera settings ensuing in clearer images, as good as faces with some-more healthy skin tones as good as reduction blur. The W290 additionally facilities HD Movie mode, recording in 720p for capturing your changed moments upon video. Compose, review, as good as share your memories upon a vast 3.0” (230k pixels) LCD.