Sony announces two slim shooters

Leonard Goh | Aug 07, 2008

Sony has unveiled its latest point-and-shoots lineup for this season, and it seems like the company's design department has scored another point in keeping the feature-rich cameras thin and pocketable.

First in line is the Cyber-shot DSC-T77, the successor to the T70. This shooter gets a resolution upgrade from 8.1 megapixels to 10 megapixels, and the profile has remarkably been trimmed from 20.7mm to 15mm, making it the slimmest point-and-shoot in the Cyber-shot family.

Next up is the Cyber-shot DSC-T700, which appears to be a hybrid of the T2 and the T300. It touts 4GB of onboard memory and the same 3.5-inch touchscreen panel seen on the T300. We noticed the specifications state that the display can show 921,000 colors, which is very impressive for a compact shooter. Sony has also reduced the side profile and the T700 is just 16.4mm thin.

These two models are equipped with 4x optical zoom, Sony's proprietary BIONZ image-processing engine, optical image stabilizer and the usual suite of features which include face detection, Smile Shutter and Intelligent Scene Recognition.

We've also got wind of a third model, the T500, slated to be released with these two snappers but further information for this unit was not available at press time.

Pricing and availability for Asia has yet to be confirmed, but Sony's press release states that the T77 will go for US$300, while the T700 will be priced at US$400 and they will ship in the US from late September.

Picture credit: Sony

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ferdiei

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ferdiei says...
what has Casio-Exilim started in the slim digicam was brought to a notch higher by Sony, signaling a trend ahead of what may Olympus(Kodak)/Panasonic hopes to thread with their micro-four-thirds system.

Aug 12, 2008 21:16

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gohleonard

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gohleonard says...
well, i'm not so sure how much can the Micro Four Thirds System trim off current dSLRs though. Much as it seems like a promising technology, till now it is only on paper. I guess the real awe will come when one of the two companies roll out the first "interchangeable lens camera" system using Micro Four Thirds System format.

Aug 13, 2008 10:35

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