Sony’s slick new Cyber-shot snappers

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:53

Your IT - Entertainment

Not to be outdone by competitors, Sony is slim and stylish new Cyber-shot cameras at the 2007 PMA show in Las Vegas to fashionable and colorful acclaim.

Sony’s Cyber-shot T-series digital cameras have long been popular with consumers, available in slim sizes and featuring large LCD screens. Now the latest models take the T-series to the next level of power and performance, at less than half an inch thick, or is that less than half an inch thin?

The flagship model is the DSC-T100. Featuring 8 megapixels, a Carl Zeiss 5x optical zoom, and a massive 3-inch LCD on the back, the camera will come in an eyepopping red, the always stylish black and the cyber color of silver. It will retail for around US $400 and will be available in March.

Sony is also offering the DSC-T20, a similar camera with 8 megapixels, but only offering a Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom and a 2.5-inch LCD screen in pink, black, silver or white, but at the more affordable price of US $330. Availability is scheduled for April.

Four different styles of naturally matching camera cases will also be available in pink, green, red, grey, black, brown and crème, but will be sold as optional accessories.

But a camera isn’t just the zoom, the number of megapixels, the colors it comes in or the color of its accessories. Plenty of other features are packed into today’s digital cameras.

The Cyber-shots will easily connect to a standard or high-definition TV, with HDTV’s able to display the superb picture quality captured by the 8 megapixel sensor, as opposed to the sub 2 megapixel quality Sony tells us we’ll get if we watch photos on a standard definition screen.

To connect to HD televisions, the Sony VMC-MHC1 HD component cable comes to the rescue, along with a Sony CSS-HD1 high-definition Cyber-shot station that provides a dock, bundled component cable, a remote control and recharge capability for your camera’s battery.

A higher end dock is the Sony DPP-FPHD1. It also comes with a high-definition component cable, the Cyber-shot camera cradle, a remote control and a even high-definition printer with component HD output, able to print photos in around 45 seconds each.

So what other cool features are inside the updated T-Series Cyber-shots? Please read on to page 2 for the conclusion!