Sony cyber-shot DSC-HX1 Black digital camera is the last great-zoom of the business camera numerical, sportsman 9 resolutions of Megapixel, one to lean 3 in the screen and one 20X range of zoom view that is equivalent to 28-560mm. Announced in the month of March 2009, it becomes the second principal current the compact camera to present a detector of CMOS, following Power Shot to Canon SX1 IS. As that the model, this team the HX1 with the two High films of Definition with the continuous impressive shooting capacities, although there are differences keys between the two models.

The Sony cyber-tire HX1 plays trump the 4FPS of his rival rate of continuous shooting with one value at 10FPS. While it will capture only ten frameworks during this explosion, and secure the camera in top a little as it writes them to the card, there remains an extremely impressive capacity – in fact for these ten pictures, the games of rate of framework that of professional sports DSLRs. The HX1 offers also the video to HD recording, although in a manner interesting his first one 1080 methods pulls to 1440×1080 pixels instead of Full HD 1920×1080, but the stretches in one 16:9 forms during playback, as the format of Came scope of HDV.

Never the gadgeteers, Sony also include a characteristic of blow of broom panorama on the HX1 that allows you to seize itself of an automatically sewn one the picture panoramic by panoramic simply the camera while to keep your finger pressed the button of replacement of shutter. This joins current technologies as to smile it, the recognition of scene and face. Complete the specification is a lens of G of Sony, the check of exposition manual full and a harbor of HDMI to connect to HDTVs. This is an irresistible specification and the one that evaluated a little more sharply than his rival of arch, the Power Shot SX1 IS. Therefore the big question is how they compare? Discover in our magazine where we details the HX1’s new unique characteristic and let us compare directly the quality of picture against the SX1 IS, with a DSLR to see how they measures in top.

 

Specifications:

Image: Stills – JPEG (Exif V. 2.1); Movies – MPEG-4 (AVC/H.264 compliant)
Image Sizes: Stills – 4:3 aspect: 3456 x 2592, 2592 x 1944, 2048 x 1536, 640 x480; 3:2 aspect:
Camera Lens: 5.0-100mm, f/2.8 Sony G-Lens (28-560mm in 35mm format for still shots, 31-620mm for 16:9 movies, 38-760mm for 4:3 movies)
Zoom: 20x optical, 2x digital
Size and Weight: Height: 82mm, Depth: 92mm, Width: 114mm, Weight: 500g
Image sensor: 5.92 x 4.57 mm Exmor CMOS Sensor with 10.3 million photosites (9.1 megapixels effective)
Shutter speed range: Auto – 2 to 1/4,000 second; Manual and shutter priority up to 30 seconds
Self-timer: 2 or 10 second delay
Image Stabilisation: Optical
Exposure Compensation: +/- 2EV in 1/3EV steps
Focus system/range: 9-point TTL AF with multi, centre-weighted and flexible spot modes plus manual and Face Detection AF; range - W: Approx. 1cm to infinity, T: Approx. 150cm to infinity
Exposure metering/control: Multi-pattern, centre-weighted and spot metering
Storage Media: 11MB internal Flash Memory plus Memory Stick Duo expansion slot
Viewfinder: 0.2 cm EVF (approx. 201,000 dots)
LCD monitor: 3.0-inch Clear Photo LCD Plus (230,400 pixels)
Power supply: Rechargeable Info LITHIUM H type 6.8V battery (approx. 390 still images/charge)