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Sony Cyber-shot W170 Digital Camera - Silver (10.1MP, 5x Optical Zoom) 2.7" LCD | 
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| Brand: Sony Category: CE
Buy New: £159.00
New (20) Used (1) from £137.35
Avg. Customer Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 119
Media: Electronics Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 6.7 x 2.6
MPN: DSCW170S.CEH Model: DSCW170S.CEH EAN: 4905524502855 ASIN: B0013IQKES
Release Date: April 30, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| » | Type: Type - Ultra Compact | | » | Pixels: CCD - 1/2.3" Super HAD CCD sensor 10.3 megapixels of which 10.1 effective RGB filter Interlaced scan Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens / Resolution (in pixels) - 3648 x 2736 | | » | Optical: Optical Viewfinder - Optical / LCD display - 2.7" LCD screen (6.7cm) 230,000 pixels / Macro Distance - 10 cm / Normal Distance - From 50 cm upwards / Optical Zoom - 5x f (equivalent to 35mm): 28-140mm / Digital Zoom - 10x / ISO range - ISO Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200 / Aperture and Shutter Speed - Diaphragm aperture: F3.3-5.2 Shutter speed: 1/4-1/1600 in Automatic mode Shutter speed: 1"-1/1600 in Programme mode Delay: 2 or 10s / Flash (built-in) - Flash: aut | | » | Storage: Image formats - JPEG / Memory Card Type - Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo High Speed, Memory Stick Pro HG Duo / Included Memory Card - No / Internal Memory - 15 MB | | » | Video: Video mode - Yes, with sound / Video Sequence - VX Fine MPEG video: 1640x480 pixels at 30 fps / TV Output - HD output with optional VMC-MHC1 component cable AV output / Webcam - No |
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Product Description Sony has added to its popular CyberShot W range with the ultra compact, wide angle DSC-W170 camera. Thanks to its automatic face recognition and scene modes, you''ll be able to take perfect shots in a snap! It has a 10-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, a BIONZ processor and an optical image stabiliser, guaranteeing faster response times and sharp pictures that are bursting with colour! It also has a high sensitivity that goes up to 3200 ISO and a D-Range optimiser, which adapts to different lighting conditions to automatically adjust exposure and contrast levels. Sony makes intelligent photography with professional results available to everyone with the DSC-W170!
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Outstanding July 3, 2008 44 out of 47 found this review helpful
I've had my W170 for about a week now it really is an outstanding camera. I view my pictures on a 37" HDTV and the quality is amazing. Small enough to fit in your pocket, packs the punch of cameras costing twice the price.
Everybody's smiling with the W170 June 5, 2008 95 out of 95 found this review helpful
I've already got an alpha 100 D-SLR, but there are occasions when its just not the time to lug a great big camera round with all the different bits that go with it. So I thought that this would be a good everyday sort of camera. I was wrong.
It's a fantasic camera! I could end up using it more than my D-SLR as the pictures are of the same quality, but in such a small case!
The last compact digital camera I had was another Cyber-Shot, the P-10, but its 5 years old now, and how its all changed. Everything is so fast, from turning it on, to focusing, to zooming, to taking as many pictures you want in a row, its all instant!
However, I really think the best points of this camera are the functions that do it all themselves. Face detection and the Smile Shutter. No longer is face detection a gimmick, everything is adjusted to make those faces look the best they can, focus, exposure, white balance, and flash are all adjusted. And it plays a role in the Smile Shutter, the most fantastic thing you will use for a long while.
Just focus the camera, press the shutter, and smile! It really works, and is so fun to use, you can also set the camera to child priority, so that the camera will only fire when the children in the photo are smiling, I hear sighs of relief from parents everywhere!
But using the Smile Shutter you will always get great people pictures, as i've found, after the first smiling picture, the subject laughs so much at the camera that it just keeps going!
All of this, and a lot more, in something you can fit in any trouser pocket, what an age we live in.
Ok, a couple of tiny gripes. The camera is slower to focus when zoomed in to the max 5x's, but only by about a second. The other is that in my 5 year old camera, the infoLITHIUM battery used would tell you down to minute how long you had till it ran out, all of my Handycam's do this too. This camera CAN do this, but you have to purchase an infoLITHIUM battery seperatly, would have been nice to include it in the box.
Overall though, its a supurb piece of kit, and i'm sure it will capture many moments, probably 95% with smiling happy people due to the Smile Shutter, to come.
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