16.2 Megapixel Exmor R CMOS Sensor – Highly efficient sensor design boosts sensitivity while reducing image noise for superb low-light pictures. Also print up to A3+ size or crop your images whilst maintaining enough image quality to print great 6x4 size photos.
Optical Active Steadyshot Image Stabilisation – Combines optical and electronic image stabilisation to counteract blurred images due to shaky hands, when shooting in low-light conditions, or at full zoom. Also allows amazingly smooth video footage.
Carl Zeiss 25mm Wide Angle 5x Optical Zoom Lens – high-quality lens that covers a wide range of shooting situations from wide-angle to capture more in your image - such as group photos, landscapes, or tight interior shots - to telephoto where you can zoom up close to distant objects.
Clear Image Zoom - boosts magnification without lowering pixel count in the final image. Further extends the camera's 5x optical zoom range, allowing full-resolution 16.2 megapixel images with a maximum 10x zoom.
3.0" 921K Xtra Fine LCD 16:9 Wide Touch Screen – For simple fingertip operation and intuitive access to menus, this large, beautifully high-resolution touch screen makes taking and viewing photos a breeze.
Picture Effects - broadens everybody's artistic options with an exciting range of creative in-camera effects. You do not need special editing software: just press the shutter button. A choice of seven Picture Effect options includes HDR Painting, Rich-tone Monochrome, Miniature, Toy Camera, Partial Colour, Pop Colour and Soft High-key.
Face Detection – focuses and sets correct exposure and white balance for faces rather than other picture elements that might be in the foreground or background. Priority selectable for children/adults.
Intelligent Sweep Panorama - Automatically combines a burst of images to create extra-wide panoramic pictures, even with moving subjects in the frame. Also features HR (High Resolution) mode, letting you capture breath-taking 42.9 megapixel panoramas.
3D Sweep Panorama - Sweep the camera and capture extra-wide 3D panoramic images. Enjoy the dramatic results either in 2D or on a 3D TV
Sweep Multi Angle - Shoot a burst of images to see your subject from different angles. View on LCD or on HDTV with PS3® and PlayMemories™ application
3D Still Image - Just press the shutter button: camera shoots two successive frames, analysing distance to create a single 3D image: view on 3D TV
Background defocus - Create professional-looking images with a crisp foreground subject against a smoothly blurred background, just like a DSLR camera
Dual Rec Photo+Video - grabs detail-packed 12 megapixel-level still photos without interrupting Full HD video shooting.
Tracking Auto Focus - Select a subject in the frame: Cyber-shot™ maintains sharp, accurate focus, even if your subject is moving
High-speed Continuous Shooting - Press the shutter button and freeze the action with a high-speed burst of images at up to 10 frames per second
Superior Auto Mode - Achieve DSLR-like quality easily: settings are adjusted automatically for stunning images with low noise and high dynamic range
BIONZ processor - Powerful image processing ensures clear, detailed, low-noise images and quick, responsive shooting
Smile Shutter – when in this mode camera automatically takes a photo when it detects a subject’s smile in the frame.
Backlight Correction HDR - Produces natural, balanced results with high contrast when shooting strongly backlit scenes
Soft Skin mode - Soft Skin mode recognizes skin tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles without affecting the rest of the shot.
Self-Portrait Timer - recognises when your face enters the frame. Once the camera detects your face, it triggers a 2-second timer, and then snaps a picture.
Easy Shooting Mode – Easy Shooting Mode, even beginners can take great photos. In Easy Shooting Mode, easy-to-understand basic instructions are displayed on the LCD screen and the camera switches to all automatic settings.
Red-eye Correction – By using the retouch function, red eyes can be fixed in-camera with the push of a button – great if you are printing directly from the camera or memory card.
PMB Portable - Built-in transfer software allows quick, easy uploads to image sharing sites when camera is connected to any web-enabled PC.
Dual Memory Stick/SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards –supports both Memory Stick and readily-available high capacity SDHC/SDXC* memory cards for flexibility of storage options.