Sony CyberShot DSC-W170
The lineup features a wider range of color choices than previous models – from playful pink and blue to sophisticated champagne gold and red.
Newly-available on the W-series cameras is Sony’s “smile shutter” mode, which automatically captures an image when your subject smiles – without having to press the shutter. This function even lets you prioritize adult or child faces to capture photos only when the intended subjects smile.
Smart Technology to Capture Better Photos
Each of the new W series models includes Sony’s improved face detection technology, which, like the smile shutter technology, can now distinguish between the faces of children and adults. You can select “child priority” or “adult priority” and the camera will detect up to eight faces in the camera frame and optimize focus, exposure, white balance, and flash control.
The W170 and W150 cameras feature new intelligent scene recognition (iSCN) technology, which allows the camera to automatically select the optimal scene mode for a variety shooting situations. In advanced iSCN mode, the camera will take a photo based on the user’s settings. If the camera determines that another setting would yield better exposure, it will automatically take a second photo with that setting. The user ultimately has two images to choose from.
Powerful Features for Outstanding Images
The series features a number of powerful features, including: Sony’s D-Range Optimizer to retrieve picture detail in photos with harsh highlights or dark shadows; semi-manual focus that allows you to select the focusing distance based on your subject’s location; an improved auto focus system that includes macro ranges; Super SteadyShot image stabilization; high sensitivity settings up to ISO 3200; and in-camera editing functions such as “unsharp mask” to sharpen images.
Enhanced Playback Options
The W170 and W150 units are equipped with advanced image management functionality. Filtering options allow you to search for photos by date and smile. Images can be viewed by date or in a helpful calendar view, and organized in the cameras’ “favorites” folder for quick retrieval of beloved images.
The slideshow function of W170 and W150 has also been upgraded. Photos can be selected using the same advanced filtering options available in playback mode and transitions have been improved through the application of face detection technology. Now your subjects can take center stage as the slideshow moves through sophisticated pans, fades and wipes. Improvements to the background music function include a choice of more tracks, longer tracks, and multiple tracks for longer slideshows.
To view your images in 1080 high-definition resolution, you can connect each of the cameras to a compatible HDTV sets via HD component cable or Sony’s HD Cyber-shot Station® cradle (both sold separately).
Price and Availability
In pink, blue, black and silver, the DSC-W120 camera will be available for about $200 in March. The DSC-W130 model will be offered in pink, black and silver for about $230 that same month. The DSC-W150 model will hit retail in sophisticated champagne, red, black and silver for about $250 in April. The DSC-W170 model will also be available then in those same colors for about $300.
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This camera is amazing only at daylights.
It has 5x optical Zoom (not very common in Sony Cybershots).
Also it has some bizzarre things like “Smile Shutter” or a “Happy Faces” filter.
The worst part is because as newer Cybershots, it doesn’t have Manual settings.
Almost everything is Automatic and selecting “Scenes” don’t fix it.
The camera tends to add ISO values on dark environments, but 3200 ISO ends in a blurry image.
Newer Cybershots are Scrap (except “H” ones, but you can’t carry one of those in your pocket).
2004 Cybershots are still better than newer ones.
I Cannot Agree with Your MORE !! Alejandro.
2004 saw the last of the best cybershots. Stopping at the DSC P200 in my experience. I haven’t tried the W series, although it’s the W170 is the next I was checking up on before buying. I needed to upgrade so I first got the T200, Took images in all kinds of settings, indoors/outdoors/flash/noflash, you name it. Then compare them with P200, P200 was miles ahead in picture sharpness, without any messing about with settings etc. Compared to my Nokia N73 3.1MP phone camera, it is about the same. say about 5% better.. how shameful. and thats only a phone camera not a serious camera. Then I quickly returned the T200 and went for T300. Guess what, absolutely no difference except more softness/blurrness from the extra 2MP. I dont know why Sony releases all this slick cool design rubbish. Surely, when people download the images onto their PC, and look at them in full 8mp or 10mp they will see plenty of blurr. I always look at background prints, street names, signs etc. at least with P200, its not perfect , but very acceptable… even the colour is good. I sold my P200 to upgrade to T200 ( which I got rid of) the T300 ( which I returned ), and was to be W170 .. But I have , in the meantime, bought a used P200 and will not get rid of it until a similar decent compact camera comes along. cant keep buying new cameras and returning them as it wastes a lot of time testing, and cost of return postage. So cybershots !!! looks like your old faithful loyal user is going for good. I still dont know what camera to get now.