The new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 agenda still camera answers one of the best acute needs for photo enthusiasts: how to allotment those amazing photos and video clips of family, accompany and contest as anon as you shoot. The Cyber-shot camera makes it accessible to upload images and video anon to accepted photo and video administration sites wherever a Wi-Fi affiliation is available.
“Research shows that our barter abundantly amount administration images and video clips, but they generally balloon or don’t accept abundant time if they delay to get home to upload images,” said Phil Lubell, administrator of agenda camera business at Sony Electronics. “Our new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera provides the artlessness and accessibility of administration in the moment, while the actuation is still beginning in people’s minds.”
The camera can wirelessly affix to any accessible hotspot, including hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and airports. Like a computer, the camera can affix to chargeless or fee-based hotspots, as able-bodied as to defended and apart admission points.
The new DSC-G3 archetypal comes with adulatory AT&T Wi-Fi admission to Sony’s Accessible Upload Home Page until Jan. 31, 2012. It includes Wi-Fi admission at bags of AT&T hotspots beyond the United States, including accommodating coffee shops, called book food and above quick-serve restaurant locations, as able-bodied as hundreds of flush hotels and airports.
“By accommodating with Sony to barrage the aboriginal agenda still camera with anchored admission to AT&T Wi-Fi service, we’re enabling consumers to accretion quick and acceptable admission to the Internet through bags of hotspots beyond the country,” said Glenn Lurie, admiral of AT&T’s arising accessory organization. “The wireless capabilities and cutting-edge appearance of the G3 camera with the reliable advantage of AT&T’s Wi-Fi arrangement offers a unique, incomparable customer experience.”
Uploads Made Easy
The new camera makes it accessible to affix to the Internet and upload images. By acute the WLAN button on the camera, you can accessible its anchored Web browser.
After abutting to the Internet via wireless admission points, the camera automatically navigates to the Sony Accessible Upload Home Page, which includes absolute links to photo administration sites like Shutterfly™ and Picasa™ Web Albums; video administration sites like YouTube™ and Dailymotion™; and a photo and video administration site, such as Photobucket™. Also, the DSC-G3 camera allows you to admission added administration sites for uploading photos and videos through its Web browser.
Through the Sony Accessible Upload Home Page, you can accelerate e-mail notifications from the administration Web sites to let accompany and ancestors apperceive that you accept acquaint new images and videos for viewing. This is absolute for administration with admired ones that were not with you aback you took the pictures or attempt the videos.
When accompany and ancestors are nearby, you can use the camera to admission photos you may accept already uploaded to administration sites and affectation them on its aerial resolution 3.5-inch LCD screen.
The camera supports DLNA (Digital Living Arrangement Alliance) guidelines. By abutting to such DLNA-compatible accessories as Sony BRAVIA® televisions via admission points, photos in the camera can be played aback with high-definition quality. In accession to BRAVIA TVs, the camera can affix to added DLNA-compatible devices, such as Sony VAIO® PCs
Smart Camera
In accession to its wireless administration capabilities, the new camera is congenital for high-performance imaging. The 10-megapixel camera is about three-fourths of an inch attenuate and includes a 4X optical zoom Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar lens. Although bunched abundant to fit in the camera’s abbreviate dimention, this lens provides accomplished accurateness and blush accuracy.
The Intelligent Arena Recognition™ affection automatically identifies a absolute of eight types of scenes — backlight, backlight portrait, twilight, afterglow portrait, afterglow application a tripod, portrait, mural and macro — and automatically optimizes camera settings for anniversary arduous cutting situation, demography an added attempt in low and ablaze ablaze scenarios.
With Sony’s Face Detection technology, the DSC-G3 camera detects faces in a arena and adjusts auto focus (AF), auto acknowledgment (AE), beam and white antithesis accordingly. It can additionally analyze amid accouchement and adults, acceptance users to to accent faces according to their alternative .
Combining the Intelligent Arena Recognition affection with Face Detection technology, the camera includes an anti-blink action that helps accomplish closed-eye photos a affair of the past. The camera automatically takes two shots and afresh determines whether the subject(s) accept bankrupt eyes. It will almanac images with acute subjects. If both pictures accept subject(s) with bankrupt eyes, the cameras will almanac one and affectation a admonishing so you can try again.
Sony’s Smile Shutter™ technology automatically captures a smile the moment it happens. You can use the developed or adolescent antecedence ambience aback cutting scenes absolute both adults and children, and the camera will analyze one face from another.
The camera’s Dynamic Range Optimizer (DRO) determines the best acknowledgment and adverse settings in about any cutting environment, giving images a accustomed attending with clearer capacity that bout what you see with your naked eye. DRO additionally balances the adverse in scenes with able highlight and shadow, convalescent detail commonly absent in adumbration areas. Combining the allowances of Optical SteadyShot™ angel stabilization with aerial acuteness mode, Sony’s Double Anti-blur affection helps abate camera agitate blur, abnormally aback there is low light.
Photo Library
The Cyber-shot DSC-G3 archetypal is additionally a “photo anthology in your pocket” and has 4GB of centralized anamnesis that can abundance about 1,000 full-resolution or 40,000 VGA-quality photos. The 3.5-inch (measured diagonally) advanced blow console Xtra Fine LCD™ awning is absolute for photo-like examination with aerial adverse and wide-angle viewing. This Xtra Fine LCD awning delivers aerial resolution images (921,600 dots) that is about four times college than accepted LCDs.
The camera additionally makes it accessible to array bags of images. While shooting, images are organized automatically in albums by date. All images in an anthology can be displayed accompanying as thumbnails on the screen, and the adapted angel can bound be selected.
There are four means to appearance photos: accepted binder view, date view, favorites and accident view. Images can be stored and managed on both the camera’s 4GB centralized anamnesis and an alternative Anamnesis Stick® media card.
In accession to the in-camera alignment and chase functionality, arranged Picture Motion Browser (PMB) software allows you to bound adapt images on a accordant PC. The software lets you chase and adapt images by accident or face, and you can affectation images in agenda or archival angle organized into folders.
Pricing and Availability
The Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera is now accessible in atramentous for about $500.
