Take stunning shots in a variety of conditions. This 8.1 megapixel Cyber-shot® digital camera features an Intelligent Scene mode which automatically selects the right settings for your environment. Smile Shutter technology is also included, letting you instantly capture smiles the moment they happen. A 2.7" LCD, Carl Zeiss® 5x optical zoom lens and Sony's Double Anti-Blur solution are also there for crisp, clear images and tight zooms. All this combined with an attractive body make the W150 an excellent choice for capturing the moment no matter where you are.

• 8.1 MP Super HAD™ CCD
  More megapixels give you more detail and definition when you make big prints or crop in tight on your subject. The advanced Sony® Super HAD™ (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.

• Carl Zeiss® 5X Optical Zoom Lens
  5X optical zoom gives you the power to get even closer to the action -- a real benefit for distant landscape views and dramatic portraits.

• Wide Angle Lens
  Wide angle (30mm-150mm4) lens captures more of the scene.

• 2.7”1 Clear Photo LCD Display
  A large, bright 2.7”1 Clear Photo LCD (230K) display includes an anti-reflective coating that provides for excellent visibility to help you compose, view, and share photos with superb clarity and color reproduction, even in bright sunlight.

• Face Detection
  Face Detection technology automatically controls flash, focus, exposure, and white balance to help reveal faces in shadows, make skin tones look more natural, reduce red-eye, and eliminates harsh facial glare.

• Smile Shutter Mode
  Smile ShutterTM technology captures smiles the moment they happen6. The mode can be set to capture when your subject laughs, smiles or even grins, and like Face Detection Smile Shutter is able to differentiate between children and adults to set priority.

• Sony Double Anti-Blur Solution
  The combination of Super SteadyShot® optical image stabilization and high ISO sensitivity helps compensate for shaky hands, minimizes blur, and allow flash-free shooting to preserve the mood.

• Super SteadyShot® Optical Image Stabilization
  Super SteadyShot® Image Stabilization compensates for shaky hands and minimizes blur with a built-in gyro sensor that detects movement and sends correcting signals to a stabilization lens -- so there’s no need to crop in on your shot to reduce blur.

• High Sensitivity (ISO 3200) Mode
  With high sensitivity of ISO 3200, you can shoot effectively in low light without flash to preserve the mood, while the Sony Clear RAW™ Noise Reduction system helps suppress the color noise that can degrade low-light shots.

• Intelligent Scene Recognition Mode
  Intelligent Scene Recognition mode automatically detects 5 different types of scenes and selects the appropriate camera setting: Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Twilight using a Tripod. Intelligent Scene Recognition has two different modes, advanced and auto. In Advanced mode, if the camera detects the particular scene, it will take one more picture. In Auto mode takes a single shot, arbitrarily deciding on the proper setting.

• Dynamic Range Optimization Standard & Plus
  Powered by the exclusive Sony BIONZTM high-speed processing engine, Dynamic Range Optimization preserves image data in bright highlights and reveals more detail in shadows or backlit areas -- for great results even in difficult lighting conditions. New DRO Plus mode enhances optimization, analyzing each region of an image and performing additional image processing.

• Convenient Photo Modes
  To adjust quickly for specific shooting situations, you can choose from several convenient photo modes, including Auto, Program Auto, and Scene Selections such as Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, Underwater, Landscape, Soft Snap, Snow, High Sensitivity, and Beach environments.

• MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode
  Capture VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at a high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second7). The maximum length of time you can shoot continuously is about 10 minutes.

• Automatic Macro Shooting
  Standard Auto Focus now covers the macro focus range, eliminating the need to manually change focus modes for close-up photography. The Macro mode has not been eliminated, and enabling it accelerates Auto Focus when shooting at point-blank range.

• 9-Point Auto Focus
  Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, a 9-point auto focus measures auto-focus at 9 precision points instead of 5 -- giving you greater creative freedom to compose your image.

• Smart Zoom® Feature5
  The Sony Smart Zoom® feature5 intelligently “crops into” the central portion of interest in your photo, helping avoid the image degradation of other digital zooms.

• Burst Mode
  Burst Mode You can fire off up to one hundred (100) shots at Approx.0.62 second intervals (at any resolution: VGA to full resolution mode) -- a great way to capture a child’s first steps or a pet’s best tricks.

• Simple Setup Controls
  A quick press of the Home button opens your user-friendly graphical interface -- and you can select functions by simply moving a cursor vertically or horizontally to the appropriate icon. Function names and the on-screen Function Guide display make it easier to learn camera setup operations.

• Easy Shooting Mode
  A simplified camera environment especially attractive to beginners or digital camera users who want to keep things simple, Easy Shooting provides easy-to-read, on-screen instructions and limits the number of camera settings to help prevent misuse of the camera while still providing excellent results.

• Function Guide
  This beginner-friendly function helps manage various functions and settings by displaying the description of chosen functions or settings on the LCD screen. The Function Guide can also be switched off.

• Optical Viewfinder
  In addition to the LCD display, a built-in optical viewfinder lets you compose your photos in traditional rangefinder camera style, and also helps save battery power by turning off your LCD display.

• 15 MB2 Internal Memory
  Even if you forget your flash memory card, you can get the shot because 15 MB2 internal memory lets you capture a limited number of shots with in-camera convenience, then easily transfer your shots to a PC or optional Memory Stick Duo™ media.

• Memory Stick Duo™ Media Convenience
  A built-in slot accepts optional Memory Stick Duo™ media or Memory Stick PRO Duo™ media -- the compact, high-capacity storage media that make it easily to upload photos to your PC and are compatible with millions of devices worldwide.

• Stamina® Battery Power
  Provides extended battery life and shooting capacity when using a fully charged Lithium Ion battery-- enough to cover a long weekend or a whole vacation.

• Easy Image Management
  To help you find the right image among many, Date View Mode and Favorites Mode have been added to the standard Folder View. Date View Mode displays a calendar view, while Favorites Mode shows only user-selected images. Furthermore, you can filter photos by face types such as portrait, child, baby, and smile.

• HDTV Compatibility3
  High-resolution images can be enjoyed in all their beauty simply by connecting the camera directly to a Sony BRAVIA® HDTV or other compatible HDTV3. This provides an excellent alternative to viewing photos as prints or on a computer monitor, and is ideal for users who want to share photos in the comfort of their living room. Optional HD solutions include a Cyber-shot® cradle/charger with component cable output, or component cable directly to your HDTV.

• “PhotoTV HD”8
  PhotoTV HD compatibility8 allows the camera to be connected to a PhotoTV HD-capable Sony BRAVIA™ HDTV via the optional HD output adaptor, for highly detailed, high-definition color images displayed in unprecedented realism and full HD quality.

• 16:9 High-Resolution Mode
  In addition to the standard 2-megapixel size, the convenient 16:9 aspect ratio shooting mode for HDTV3 display can now be shot in 7-megapixels, making it possible to obtain beautiful, high-definition prints with the same aspect ratio as HDTV.

• Wide Zoom Display
  To use the entire image area of the compatible HDTV3 screens, Wide Zoom automatically expands standard 4:3 and 3:2 images to 16:9

• Photo Music
  Expanding the HD Slide Show with Music feature, PHOTOMUSIC combines images with music to produce fun and entertaining slide shows. The five standard visual effects (Simple, Basic, Nostalgic, Active and Stylish) have been supplemented with Face1: Basic, Face2: Nostalgic and Face3: Stylish for a total of eight effects. Additionally, the number of music tracks stored in the camera memory has been doubled from four to eight, and music playback time has been extended from three to five minutes per track. More personalized slide shows are also possible by transferring music from a PC to the camera.

• In-Camera Retouching
  Add creative effects to photos after you shoot using any of 10 retouching functions, including: Trimming, Red-Eye Correction, Soft Focus filter, Unsharp Masking, Cross filter, Partial Color filter, Fish-eye filter, Retro, Radial Blur and Happy Face. The Happy Face effect uses photo retouching to put a smile on faces, with smile levels adjustable from 1 to 5.

• In-Camera Red-Eye Correction
  Irritating “glowing eyes” can ruin even the most creative photos, but in-camera red eye correction corrects your photos at the touch of a button to reduce lingering red-eye effect that other systems might miss.

• Multi-Resizing Function
  Resize your photos in-camera for virtually any purpose! Any size picture images can be resized to widescreen 16:9 and 2 MP resolution for display on an HDTV. Conversely, high resolution, widescreen 16:9 images or any size picture can be resized to 4:3 size with VGA (640 x 480) resolution -- perfect for sharing with friends and family via e-mail (internet connection required).

• Picture Motion Browser Software
  Supplied software makes it easier to upload, organize, and search photos on your PC. When shooting photos using your camera and an optional GPS unit, the software even provides a convenient map view function that lets you sort photos by location and display their origin on a world map.

• BIONZ™
  BIONZ™ image processor delivers speed and precision

Supplied Accessories

• NP-BG1 rechargeable battery
  
• BC-CSG battery charger
  
• A/V and USB multi-connector cables
  
• Wrist strap
  
• Software CD-ROM
  Note: No Memory Stick® DUO media or adaptors are included.

Convenience

• Burst Mode : Max 100 Shots at 1.6fps (All resolutions)
• Erase/Protect : Yes/Yes
• Media/Battery Indicator : Yes/Yes
• Memory Stick PRO™ Media Compatibility : Tested to support up to 16GB Memory Stick DUO PROTM media capacity1; does not support Access Control security function.
• Color Mode(s) : Black & White, Natural, Sepia, Vivid
• Self Timer : Yes (10 seconds, 2 seconds, Off)
• Red-Eye Reduction : Yes (On/Off all modes)
• Still Image Mode(s) : Normal, Burst, Bracket Exposure
• White Balance : Automatic, Cloudy, Daylight, Fluorescent 1, Fluorescent 2, Fluorescent 3, Incandescent, Flash

Hardware

• LCD : 2.7"1 Clear Photo LCD (230K Pixels)
• Viewfinder : Optical
• Lens Construction : 9 elements in 7 groups(including 1ED glass element and 3aspheric elements)
• Microphone/Speaker : Yes/ Yes
• Lens Type : Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar®
• Docking Station : Yes, via optional HD cradle (CSS-HD2)

Power

• Battery Capacity : 3.6V, 960 mAh
• Battery Type : Lithium-Ion NP-BG1

Convenience Features

• Movie Mode(s) : MPEG VX Fine (640x480 at 30fps) (MPEG VX Fine requires Memory Stick PRO Duo™ media), MPEG VX Standard (640x480 at 16fps), Presentation (320 x 240 at 8fps)
• Power Save Mode : Yes (after approx. 3 min. of inactivity)
• Scene Mode(s) : Beach, High Sensitivity, Landscape, Snow, Soft Snap, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, Fireworks, Smile Shutter, and Underwater.
• Real Imaging Processor™ Technology : BIONZTM
• AF Illuminator Light : Auto / Off, (W:Approx. 2.0m , T:Approx. 1.7m)
• PictBridge Compatible : Yes
• Multi-Pattern Measuring : Yes
• Super SteadyShot® optical image stabilization : Yes
• In-Camera Editing : Trimming, Red Eye Correction, Soft Focus, Partial Color, Fisheye Lens, Cross Filter, Retro, Radial Blur, Unsharp Masking, and Happy Face.

General

• Recording Media : 15MB internal Flash Memory, optional Memory Stick Duo™ Media, optional Memory Stick PRO Duo™ Media
• Imaging Device : 1/2.5" Super HAD™ CCD
• Megapixel : 8.1 MP

Optics/Lens

• Total Zoom : 10x
• Optical Zoom : 5x
• Digital Zoom : 0-2.0X (Precision)
• Digital Zoom : Smart Zoom / Precision Digital Zoom / Off
• Exposure Compensation : Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
• Minimum Focus Distance : W: Approx. 3 15/16(10cm) - Infinity / T: Approx. 19 11/16(50cm) - Infinity
• Focal Length : 5-25mm
• 35mm Equivalent : 30-150mm
• Focus : 9-Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF, Spot AF, Semi Manual Focus (0.5m / 1.0m / 3.0m / 7.0m / Unlimited distance)
• ISO : Auto / 80 / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200
• Shutter Speed : Auto(1/4 - 1/1,600) / Program Auto(1" - 1/1,600)
• Aperture Range : Auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) / Program auto( F3.3/F8.0(W), 2 steps) with ND Filter
• Macro Mode : Yes
• Face Detection : Yes

Software

• Operating System Compatibility : Microsoft® 2000 Professional, XP Home and Professional; Macintosh® OS 9.1/9.2/OS X (10.1-10.5)
• Supplied Software : Windows: Picture Motion Browser Vers 3.0.02 + USB Driver

Operating Conditions

• Flash Effective Range : ISO Auto: (W):Approx. 0.2 - Approx. 4.2m / (T):Approx. 0.5 - Approx. 2.7m ISO 3200: (W): uo to Approx. 8.4m / (T):Approx. 5.3m
• Flash Mode(s) : Auto, Forced On, Forced Off, Slow Synch

Inputs and Outputs

• Accessory Terminal : Multi connector
• Audio/Video Output(s) : Yes via Mutli-Use Connector
• USB Port(s) : Yes -supports USB 2.0
• HD Output : Yes (1080i)