Sony Cyber-shot^® DSC-F88 Digital Camera Manual Support Features Review Guide

Take the perfect picture from any angle with the DSC-F88 Cyber-shot® digital camera from Sony. It features a rotating lens design that allows you to capture image from overhead, down below, or even from behind. Whether you’re in a crowd or taking a self portrait, you’ll never have to guess about picture quality

Images are striking on the DSC-F88 thanks to its huge 5.1 Megapixel image capture, professional quality Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar® lens, and Sony’s own Real Imaging Processor. It even has USB 2.0 compatibility for high speed image transfers and PictBridge™ compatibility for easy image printing without a computer.

1/2.4" 5.1 Megapixel Super HAD™ CCD Super HAD (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCDs provide excellent image quality by allowing more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
•		Rotating Lens Design Rotating through a 300 degree travel DSC-F88’s lens lets you shoot from waist level, overhead or even fully reversed to let you get in the picture with full view of the LCD.
•		3X Optical/2X Digital/6X Total Zoom Optical zoom helps you fill the frame with your subject for better pictures. And Sony’s Precision Digital Zoom helps bring your subject closer with an extra 2X magnification.
•		Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar® Lens The Vario-Tessar® lens is specially produced for compact cameras and provides rapid auto focus with appealing zoom range. Utilizing a highly transmissive optical grade prism, the lens is housed entirely within the camera’s rotating lens, and does not need to extend for use.
•		0 – 12.0X Smart Zoom™ Feature (at VGA Resolution) The Smart Zoom feature intelligently uses the full CCD to let you zoom into the portion of interest by cropping the image size – thus avoiding the image degradation of Digital Zooms.
•		Real Imaging Processor The innovative Real Imaging Processor in the DSC-F88 not only improves picture quality and clarity but also improves camera response time, decreases shutter lag and improves battery stamina.
•		Live Histogram Display Available in capture and playback the Live Histogram Displays the concentration of pixels at each luminosity value making it easy to evaluate correct exposure.
•		5 Area Multi-Point Auto Focus By evaluating 5 separate focus areas of the frame, Sony’s Multi-Point AF system can intelligently focus on the subject and avoid mistakenly focusing on the background.
•		Manual Exposure Mode Manual Exposure Mode provides extended control with 46-step adjustable Shutter speed (30 – 1/1000 sec.), and 2-step Aperture control.
•		AF (Auto Focus) Illuminator Briefly illuminating the subject, in low, or no, light conditions, the AF Illuminator helps establish a positive focus lock.
•		Selectable Focus Mode Monitoring AF (Auto Focus) helps you anticipate the action by focusing even before you press the shutter release.
•		Multi-Pattern Measuring Independently light-metering 49 points of the frame, Multi-Pattern Measuring establishes the optimum exposure, even when highlight and shadow isn’t centered in the frame.
•		Scene Selection Mode With 10 Scene Modes, parameters can be matched to the shooting conditions. Choose from one of the following: Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Landscape, Soft Snap, Candle, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, High Speed Shutter or Magnifying Glass.
•		Pre-Flash Metering With a momentary pre-flash, the camera illuminates the subject and sets exposure through the lens for accurate flash metering. Adjustable flash level and red-eye reduction ensure great flash shots.
•		Slow Shutter Noise Reduction During long exposures, Slow Shutter NR captures the scene, and then the CCD noise pattern with a dark frame exposure. By subtracting the two, even long exposures can be clear.
•		1.8" LCD Monitor The 1.8" 134K LCD Monitor makes framing shots and reviewing pictures easy.
•		Memory Stick® Media and Memory Stick PRO™ Media Digital. Powerful. Transportable.™ Memory Stick® media is compact, portable and rugged – connecting a variety of hardware and software applications.
•		9 Shot Burst Mode Capture up to 9 shots (fine) or 16 shots (standard) at 1.6 frame/sec. even at 5 MP resolution. Perfect for high speed subjects or fast moving action such as sports.
•		Multi-Burst Mode Captures 16 320 x 240 frames as part of a single 1280 x 960 image which plays back sequentially in the camera. Selectable 1/7.5, 1/15, 1/30 second.
•		MPEG Movie VX Standard Mode with Audio Captures VGA (640 x 480) high frame rate (16 frames per second) audio/video clips with length limited only by the capacity of the media. Video mail mode captures smaller file sizes suitable for email.
•		Conversion Lens Compatible With VCL-07FEB wide conversion lens, you can expand your camera’s field of view, helping you capture the entire scene. It’s especially helpful in self-shooting when holding the camera at arm’s length.
•		Cyber-shot® Station Compatible Make transferring images and recharging the DSC-F88’s battery easier with the optional CSS-FEB Cyber-shot station. Just place the camera on the cradle for instantaneous power and computer connections.
•		PictBridge™ Compatibility Connect to any PictBridge™ compatible printer with the supplied USB cable and print directly from the camera. Images can be viewed and selected for printing right on the camera’s LCD, with menus for print quantity, date and index print.
•		Rechargeable InfoLithium® Battery Provides reliable, long-lasting power for continuous shooting, without “Memory Effect". The supplied AC-LS5 adapter/charger provides stable power for USB Transfer.