Digital Still Camera

Full HD (1920 X 1080, 50i) AVCHD movie

Full HD at the touch of a button

Start shooting instantly with a touch of the Movie button and effortlessly capture any moment in Full HD. Selected Cyber-shot cameras feature an Exmor R™ CMOS Sensor to record your footage in Full HD 1080 resolution, using AVCHD video compression technology. You'll be rewarded with rich, natural images that look great on your Full HD television or PC.
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Crisp image quality and sound

Cyber-shot records camcorder-quality video in Full HD with crisp, digital stereo sound. During shooting, you can smoothly zoom in and out without interrupting recording – just like with a camcorder. For even more professional-looking results, Tracking Focus keeps your chosen subject in sharp focus, even if it's moving. Just select the person or subject you want to track on the camera screen: Cyber-shot stays focused while you concentrate on what's happening around you.

Smooth Full HD movies

For smooth, cinematic results with the most challenging scenes, selected Cyber-shot models can shoot Full HD movies in progressive mode at 50 frames per second. 'Progressive' means that the camera captures your footage as a high-speed sequence of complete video frames. This ensures the highest quality, blur-free results during playback. It also lets you capture still images from any point in the movie you're recording..

More ways to share and enjoy your movies

There are plenty of options for enjoying Full HD video captured with Cyber-shot. Connect your HD television and enjoy the show with fine detail and natural colours. Upload easily to your favourite social networking sites or just email video clips and photos to friends and family with the easy-to-use PMB software that comes free with every Cyber-shot camera.

AVCHD Full HD movies

Full HD movie shooting capability in AVCHD format produces superb HD Movies. Users can shoot beautiful HD movies, activating AVCHD Full HD (1920 x 1080, 50i) movie shooting via a simple one-press operation. Employing the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec, which is more than twice as efficient in compressing data as the MPEG-2/MPEG-4 codec; allows higher frame rates and higher bit rate to record, and provides smoother movies than other cameras without HD video recording capability