Sony DSC-W80/B Sony® Guide to Digital Photography (Spring 2007) - Page 24

Sharing your pictures When your pictures take the form of exposed film, you need to wait for processing before you can share them with anyone. When your pictures take the form of digital files, you can start sharing immediately. There's no need to run to the drug store. No processing time to wait. And nothing to mail in. The electronic photo album With digital pictures, as long as you've got your camera, you've got a photo album. • The camera as photo album. Digital cameras, especially those with large screens, are well suited to showing off your pictures. • The television as photo album. Connect your camera to your television to show the whole gang where you were and what you did on vacation. • The PC as photo album. You can connect your camera to a compatible PC via USB cable. Then you have a choice of copying your pictures onto the PC or simply viewing the pictures, using your camera as an external PC drive. • The CD-ROM as photo album. You can easily copy onto CD-ROM for long-term storage and sharing with friends. • The Internet as photo album. Photo websites including our own ImageStation.com enable you to post pictures to your own personal web page and invite selected friends and family to view them. Digital photo prints Thanks to the amazing flexibility of digital technology, there are more ways than ever to generate beautiful, long-lasting prints. 44 • PC-free digital photo printing Sony DPP-FP70 and DPP-FP90 PictureStation™ printers are optimized for your photos, and need not be connected to a PC. The PictBridge print interface and USB connection from the camera to the printer make everything fast and easy. • PC printing It's also easy to print photos from your PC, using a compatible printer. • Kiosk printing Many convenience stores, drug stores, and business service stores offer digital print kiosks, including our own PictureStation kiosks. Kiosks typically offer a touch-screen display that makes it easy to select print sizes, quantities and enhancements like borders and captions. • Internet printing Here's another benefit of photo websites such as our ImageStation.com. You can submit your pictures over the Internet, and then order prints in a complete range of sizes including giant, 20 x 30-inch enlargements. You can even order specialty items such as greeting cards, calendars, mugs and mouse pads imprinted with your pictures! Digital photos and computer applications The JPEG images produced by Sony digital cameras are not just pictures. They're also computer files, compatible with an incredible range of computer applications. • E-mail Why bother going out to get a print, putting it in an envelope and sending it via first class mail? You can e-mail pictures in seconds, either as "file attachments" or in the body of the email message itself! • Presentations and websites Even in the digital age, a picture is still worth the proverbial 1,000 words. For business or pleasure, it's easy to liven up your documents and web pages with the pictures you've taken. • Desktop publishing Graphic design software is set up to import your pictures and show them off to good effect. Sony features for sharing Full HD 1080 still image viewing Your HDTV just got another great new high definition source: selected Sony Cyber-shot® cameras. Sony is the expert in all things HDTV, and our BRAVIA™ televisions are the market leaders. So it's no coincidence that you can now connect a Cyber-shot® camera to your HDTV and enjoy your pictures with over four times the detail of conventional, standard definition TV. Full HD 1080 still image viewing is a great way to share your still pictures - and a stunning way to show off the performance of your HDTV. (HDTV and HD connecting cables sold separately.) Some cameras go even further, enabling you to set up an HD Slide Show with music. There are three ways to connect to an optional HDTV and enjoy the Full HD 1080 performance: • Connect via the optional VMC-MHC1 cable, which goes right to the Y/Pb/Pr component video inputs of an HDTV. • Dock your camera in an optional CSS-HD1 Cyber-shot Station™ cradle that stays connected to your HDTV. • Enjoy simultaneous slide shows and printing with the DSC-W80HDPR bundle. This includes the DSC-W80 camera, DPP-FPHD1 PictureStation® printer and a Cyber-shot Station cradle. Option 1: Connect HD Component Cable Option 2: Connect and charge HD Cradle Solution Option 3: Connect, charge and print HD Camera/ Printer Bundle Solution Result: HD Photo Sharing Enjoy High Definition using the optional VMC-MHC1 cable, optional CSS-HD1 Cyber-shot® Station cradle or the DSC-W80HDPR bundle connected to your HDTV (sold separately). (Sample photos for illustration purposes.) Slide Show Sony Cyber-shot® cameras actually put your pictures to music. Most Cyber-shot models are more than just cameras. They're also portable slide shows. Not only can you use the giant LCD monitor screen to show off your pictures, but the cameras will advance automatically through your pictures at selectable transition speeds. And you can even run the show to your choice of background music! Of course, you can also run the Slide Show on your television. And models with Full HD 1080 still image viewing can even run a high definition Slide Show that will look amazing - especially when you connect your Sony camera to a Sony BRAVIA™ HDTV! Album feature The DSC-N2 and G1 aren't just cameras; they're also portable photo albums. Every time the DSC-N2 and G1 take a picture, they save it into memory for keeps! There's room for up to 500 VGA-sized images (DSC-N2) or 7500 full-sized images (DSC-G1). So you can have all your favorite photos with you wherever you go! Someone hasn't seen your kids in years? New construction in your back yard? European vacation? With the Album feature, you don't just talk about it. You can show it! 2 Gigabytes of on-board storage The DSC-G1 stores and organizes up to 7500 full resolution pictures. With 2 gigabytes on-board (1.86 GB net available for storage), the DSC-G1 has convenient ways to organize your pictures. The camera automatically groups pictures by shooting occasions. And the supplied PC software helps make the on-board storage even easier to manage. 45