Price (body only)
(With 18-70mm kit lens) |
• $460 / £260 [check]
• $460 / £270 |
| Body material |
Plastic exterior |
| Sensor |
• 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD sensor
• RGB Color Filter Array
• Built-in fixed low-pass filter
• 10.8 million total pixels
• 10.2 million effective pixels |
| Image sizes * |
• 3872 x 2592 (L)
• 2896 x 1936 (M)
• 1920 x 1280 (S)
• 3872 x 2176 (16:9, L)
• 2896 x 1632 (16:9, M)
• 1920 x 1088 (16:9, S) |
| File qualities / formats |
• RAW (.ARW)
• RAW + JPEG Fine
• JPEG Fine
• JPEG Standard |
| Dust reduction |
• Static-resistant anti-dust coating
• CCD-shift dust reduction mechanism |
| Lenses |
• Sony Alpha lenses
(also compatible with Minolta A-type bayonet mount lenses) |
| FOV crop |
1.5x |
| Super Steady Shot |
• CCD-Shift 'Super Steady Shot' system
• Five level LED shake indicator in viewfinder
• Claimed equivalent to 2.5 – 3.5 steps in shutter speed |
| Auto Focus * |
• TTL CCD line sensors (9-points, 8 lines with center cross-hair sensor)
• EV -1 to 18 (ISO 100) detection range
• Predictive focus control for moving subjects
• Auto-tracking focus point display |
| AF area selection |
• Wide AF area
• Spot AF area (center)
• Focus area selection (any of 9) |
| Focus modes |
• Single-shot AF
• Direct Manual Focus
• Continuous AF
• Automatic AF
• Manual focus |
AF assist
illuminator |
• Yes (using built in flash)
• Range approx 1m - 5m |
| Eye-start AF |
Yes, selectable from menu |
| Shooting modes |
• Auto
• Programmed AE (with shift)
• Aperture priority AE
• Shutter priority AE
• Manual
• Scene modes (below) |
| Scene modes |
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Macro
• Sports
• Sunset
• Night portrait |
| Sensitivity |
• Auto (Range varies depending on shooting mode)
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600
• ISO 3200* |
| Metering modes |
• Multi-segment (40 segment Honeycomb pattern)
• Center-weighted
• Spot |
| Metering range |
• EV 2 to 20 (Multi-segment / Center-weighted) *
• EV 4 to 20 (Spot metering) *
(at ISO 100 with F1.4 lens) |
| AE Lock |
• AEL button
• Half-press shutter release |
| AE Bracketing |
• 3 frames
• 0.3 or 0.7 EV steps |
| Exposure compen. |
• -2.0 to +2.0 EV
• 0.3 EV steps |
| Shutter |
Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane Shutter |
| Shutter Speed |
• 30 to 1/4000 sec
• Bulb |
| Flash X-sync |
• 1/160 sec |
| Aperture values |
Depends on lens, 0.3 EV steps |
| DOF preview |
No |
| White balance |
• Auto
• Daylight
• Shade
• Cloudy
• Tungsten
• Fluorescent
• Flash
• Color temperature/filter (2500 - 9900 K)
• Manual (Custom) |
| White balance fine tuning |
• Auto (none)
• Preset WB: -3 to +3
• Fluorescent WB: -2 to +4
• Color temperature WB: G9 to M9
(Magenta to Green) |
| White balance bracketing |
• 3 frames
• 10 or 20 Mired steps |
| Dynamic range optimizer |
• Off
• Standard
• Advanced |
| Color space |
• sRGB
• Adobe RGB |
| Color modes |
• Standard
• Vivid
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Sunset
• Night view
• Sunset *
• B&W
• Adobe RGB |
| Image parameters |
• Contrast (-3 to +3)
• Sharpness (-3 to +3)
(Available in all color modes)
• Saturation (-3 to +3)
(All modes except B&W) |
| Noise reduction * |
• Long exposure for exposures longer than 1 second
• High ISO NR at ISO 1600 or higher
• User controllable: On / Off |
| Viewfinder |
• Eye-level fixed pentamirror
• Spherical Acute Matte focusing screen (not changeable)
• Magnification approx. x0.83
• 95% frame coverage
• Diotric adjustment (-2.5 to +1.0)
• Eye-relief 20 mm from eyepiece, 16 mm from frame
• Eyepiece cup removable
• Viewfinder info bar
|
| LCD monitor * |
• 2.7" TFT LCD ('Clear Photo LCD Plus')
• 230,000 pixels
• Anti-reflective coating
• Auto dimmed by viewfinder eye sensor |
| Flash |
• Built-in pop-up flash (manual release)
• Metering: ADI, Pre-flash TTL, Manual flash control
• Guide number 12 (ISO 100/m)
• Angle of coverage 24 mm (35 mm equiv.)
• Flash sync 1/160 sec |
| Flash modes |
• Auto
• Fill Flash
• Red-eye Reduction (pre-flash)
• Wireless/Remote Off-camera Flash
• Rear Flash Sync.
• High Speed Sync.
• Slow Sync with AE Lock |
| Flash compensation |
-2.0 to +2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps |
| External flash (optional) |
• Sony HVL-F56M (guide no. 56)
• Sony HVL-F36M (guide no. 36)
• Macro Twin Flash Kit HVL-MT24AM
• Ring Light HVL-RLAM
• Off camera flash shoe FA-CS1 AM |
| Drive modes |
• Single-frame
• Continuous
• Self-timer (10 or 2 sec)
• Continuous bracket
• Single-frame bracket
• White balance bracket |
Continuous
shooting |
• RAW: 3 fps, up to 6 frames
• RAW+JPEG: 3 fps, up to 3 frames
• JPEG: 3fps, unlimited |
| Self-timer |
• 10 sec
• 2 sec |
| Orientation sensor |
Yes, for shooting, playback and control panel display |
| Connectivity |
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mass storage, Multi-LUN or PTP)
• Video out (NTSC or PAL)
• DC-IN
• Remote terminal |
| Video out |
• AV (Selectable NTSC or PAL) |
| Storage |
• Compact Flash Type I/II
• Memory Stick Duo / Pro Duo (Via optional adapter)
• Supports FAT12 / FAT16 / FAT32 |
| Power * |
• NP-FM500H Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (1650 mAh)
• Battery charger included
• Optional AC adapter
• Batter life Approx 750 shots (CIPA standard) |
| Vertical grip * |
• Vertical Grip VG-B30AM
• One or Two NP-FM500H batteries with auto switchover for power (additional battery is optional). |
| Dimensions |
131 x 98.5 x 71 mm (5.2 x 3.7 x 2.8 in) |
| Weight (body) |
• No battery: 532 g (1.2 lb)
• incl. battery and card: 626g (1.4 lb) |
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