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Sony Announces New Point and Shoots with Lots of Megapickels

Chris Gampat
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01/29/2012
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This evening, Sony announced three new additions to their point and shoot line of cameras. At a glance, the TX200V (above) is their tough camera that it waterproof up to 16 feet, and has a fairly thick layer of glass right in front of it (when we asked if it was Gorilla Glass, they couldn’t comment.) Plus, they announced the new WX70 with a 3.0 inch touch screen LCD and the WX50: which is their latest entry level CMOS model.

Interestingly, Sony said that the cameras will continuously autofocus and try to find something to focus on until you half-press the shutter button and lock it. That means that in real life use, the battery life may suffer. They also claim that these cameras have 1/6th the noise as their previous generation. During the presentation, we saw charts that we’re not allowed the publish; but the technology is called, “pixel super resolution technology.”

No press release here: just all the details you’re probably curious about after the jump; like more megapickels on those itsy bitty teenie weeny sensor.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX200V

“Stylish new glass design, high-resolution model”  

Available this March in silver, red and violet for approximately $500

  • 18 MP “Exmor R” CMOS sensor
  • 26mm equivalent Carl Zeiss™ lens with 5x optical zoom, 10x virtual zoom via “Clear Image Zoom” technology
  • “Extra High Sensitivity” technology enhances low-light shooting capabilities
  • Lightning-fast AF speed of approximately 0.1 second in daylight, 0.2 seconds in low-light
  • Beautiful, slim reinforced glass design with 3.3-inch (8.3cm) Xtra Fine™ Tru-Black OLED wide touch-screen
  • Waterproof (up to 16 feet) and dustproof
  • Captures 13 MP still images while shooting video via “Dual-Record”
  • Full HD Movie Shooting capability (1920×1080/60p) and Optical image stabilization with “Active Mode”
  • Photo Creativity interface and 9 “Picture Effect” options for creating unique, custom-styled photos and video

 

COMPACT, TRADITIONALLY DESIGNED W SERIES CYBER-SHOT

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX70

“CMOS model w/ 3.0 inch touch screen LCD”

Available this March in silver, black, pink, and violet for approximately $230

  • 16 MP “Exmor R” CMOS sensor, 3.0-inch 921k dot touch LCD screen
  • 25mm equivalent lens with 5x optical zoom, 10x virtual zoom via “Clear Image Zoom” technology
  • “Extra High Sensitivity” technology enhances low-light shooting capabilities
  • Captures 12 MP still images while shooting video via “Dual-Record”
  • Full HD Movie Shooting capability (1920×1080/60i) and Optical image stabilization with “Active Mode”
  • 9 total “Picture Effects” options,  allowing for creative, custom styled photographs


Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX50

“Entry level CMOS model at competitive price”

Available this March in silver and black for approximately $200

  • 16 MP “Exmor R” CMOS sensor, 2.7-inch LCD screen
  • 25mm equivalent lens with 5x optical zoom, 10x virtual zoom via “Clear Image Zoom” technology
  • “Extra High Sensitivity” technology enhances low-light shooting capabilities
  • Captures 12 MP still images while shooting video via “Dual-Record”
  • Full HD Movie Shooting capability (1920×1080/60i) and Optical image stabilization with “Active Mode”
  • 9 total “Picture Effects” options,  allowing for creative, custom styled photographs

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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