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Advanced features, amazing responses
Step up to a new world of superlative image quality and professional features. Loaded with advanced functions, it’s the world’s first camera that teams Sweep Panorama, ultra-fast 10fps shooting and HD movie recording.
 | Experience the whole picture
Now it's easy to grab breathtaking wide-screen views of that landscape or city scene. Sweep Panorama mode shoots a high-speed burst of frames as you sweep the camera from side to side (or up and down!). Images are stitched together automatically by the camera to create one amazing panoramic image. |  | Get closer to your subject
A high-quality Optical Zoom lens gets closer to the action, letting you fill more of the frame with distant subjects. Unlike digital zoom, you’ll get uncompromised image quality at all settings – even high magnifications. |  | Pack more into every scene
Dramatic landscapes, architectural shots, interiors and even family scenes can produce disappointing results when a scene gets cut off at the edges. A wide angle lens lets you pack more into the picture without having to stand further back from the subject. |  | The camera that thinks it’s a camcorder
Left your camcorder behind? Don't worry: now you can capture crisp, clear HD movie clips at an incredible 30 frames per second for smooth, clear action. Watch the results on your BRAVIA television: you'll be amazed by the quality, detail and colour. |  | Freeze the action
It’s fascinating to catch every instant of a golf swing or a bird in flight. High-speed shooting grabs a continuous burst of images at full resolution. Faster than many professional digital SLR cameras, it’s a great way to capture rapid movement without sacrificing image detail. |
 Wouldn’t you like a view of the really big picture?
 Ordinary cameras seldom capture the full impact of breathtaking landscapes, city scenes and tall buildings. Even if you’ve got a wide angle lens, it’s hard to squeeze everything into the frame and do the scene justice. To pack more into the picture, photographers traditionally use the trick of shooting several frames, shifting the camera’s position to capture different parts of the scene. These shots are combined to create one extra-large image. However it’s a fiddly manual process that demands skill and patience to stitch frames together without obvious joins. Now there’s a fun, easy way to create seamless, ultra-wide pictures with a huge field of view of up to 224 degrees. Even at the lowest horizontal panoramic setting you’ll get a field of view of 108 degrees: that’s equivalent to a wide angle lens with a focal length of just 14mm. Sweep Panorama takes the hard work out of creating fabulous panoramic shots. And best of all, you don’t need a PC or special software: everything’s done for you inside the camera. Sweep Panorama is an exclusive Sony feature that makes its debut on the Cyber-shot™ HX1. It’s the world’s first compact camera that automatically captures and combines a high-speed burst of full-resolution images. Just press the shutter button and sweep the camera from left to right across your scene. It also works vertically, letting you sweep the camera up and down to capture tall buildings in a single, dramatic image.
The ultra-fast EXMOR CMOS sensor inside the HX1 shoots a rapid burst of frames at a speed that many sophisticated SLR cameras can’t match. Frames are then stitched together automatically by the camera: the whole process takes just three seconds.
 While Sweep Panorama is brilliantly easy to use, there are plenty of options to help you get exactly the artistic results you’re after.
Standard Wide mode captures dramatic panoramic shots with detail-packed 4912 x 1080 pixel resolution (40:9 ratio). If you want an even bigger field of view, choose Ultra-wide mode and capture amazing 60:9 images with 7152 x 1080 pixels. You can also hold the camera vertically (in portrait position) and shoot extra-tall panoramas in standard (16:9) or ultra-wide (32:9) modes.
Enjoy the view
 There are lots of ways to enjoy your panoramic pictures. Show them off to beautiful effect with new digital photo frames by Sony. Latest X series and V series frames can ‘pan’ the image smoothly from left to right (or up and down), giving you an incredible view of every detail. Alternatively, connect the camera to your BRAVIA™ TV or slip a Memory Stick™ into PLAYSTATION®3. Want hard copies of your panoramas to treasure? Produce them at home on normal-sized paper with photo printers by Sony. Panoramas shot in vertical standard wide (16:9) and vertical ultra wide (32:9) modes can also be printed by your high street photo retailer, or ordered online via www.colourmailer.com or www.photobox.com. Specially-sized prints in 40:9 or 60:9 modes can be handled by many specialist printers. Feeling inspired? Sweep Panorama is already offered by the compact, power-packed Cyber-shot™ HX1. With 10 fps shooting, 20x optical zoom, a top-quality Sony G Lens and 1080p HD movie recording, it’s the perfect travel partner when you need serious camera features that won’t weigh you down.
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