Sony DSCHX9V Cyber-shot Black

Compact camera, expansive results.

Picture this: incredible, professional-looking photos from a compact, easy-to-use camera that's small enough to slip into your pocket. The Cyber-shot® HX9V digital camera makes it possible with a host of intelligent features—including a massive 16x optical zoom, outstanding low-light performance and built-in backlight correction for incredible contrast. You can even shoot vivid HD video clips, then burn them to a DVD to enjoy on your HDTV.

Great Low-light Shots
Sometimes a flash can wash out a scene, and make it hard to capture the authentic mood of the moment. For low-light environments, the back-illuminated "Exmor R" CMOS sensor delivers stunning performance and increases sensitivity by 2x to reduce noise. Shots from a night out on the town never looked better.

Zoom in on the Action
Get up close and personal without taking a single step. Thanks to a 16x optical zoom G lens, distant subjects are never out of reach. Zoom in close for great sports, wildlife, outdoors and travel photos, without the bulk or inconvenience of additional lenses or equipment.

Amazing HD Movies
Shoot beautiful HD movies and then burn them to DVD. By recording in the AVCHD™ format, you can transfer full 1080i clarity and smooth motion video to disc and play it on your Blu-ray Disc™ player or PS3™ game system7. Create an entire library of memories in high definition. Movie files are limited to 29 minutes each.

Incredible Contrast
From portraits to action shots, landscapes to close-ups—there's beauty in the details. With a built-in backlight correction feature, this camera intelligently analyzes the image and adjusts the settings automatically. The result? A perfectly-lit shot every time.

Shoot in Immersive 3D
Capture still images, vast scenic vistas and 16:9 shots in spectacular 3D. As you sweep across the panorama, the camera records separate right-eye and left-eye images that make landscapes come alive on your compatible 3D TV or 3D-enabled VAIO® computer.

Effortless Panoramic Shots
Intelligent Sweep Panorama™ HR mode reaches beyond the traditional wide angle lens to let you capture expansive, breathtaking shots of landscapes or cityscapes in incredibly-detailed high resolution. Just press the shutter and pan the scene with a sweeping motion. The camera takes care of the rest—to spectacular results.

Key Features

• 16.2MP Exmor R CMOS
• Wide 16x Zoom Lens 24-384mm Equivalent
• 3.0" VGA LCD Monitor
• 1080/60p AVCHD HD Video W/Dual Record
• Superior Auto W/Improved HDR
• 3D and Intelligent Sweep Panorama Modes
• Optical SteadyShot for Sharp Pictures
• Background Defocus/Soft Skin Modes
• Up to 10fps at Full 16.2MP Resolution
• Face Detection Technology

16.2 Megapixel Back-Illuminated "Exmor R" CMOS Image Sensor

The DSC-HX9V features a 16.2 megapixel "Exmor R" CMOS image sensor that brings out the full resolving power of the camera's Sony G lens to deliver extremely fast speed, high resolution, and stunning low-light sensitivity with improved image clarity and drastically reduced grain. In addition, the combined "Exmor R" CMOS sensor and BIONZ image processor delivers extremely fast up to 10fps, Anti Motion Blur, Hand-held Twilight and 1080p movie modes.

3.0" XtraFine LCD display

3.0" XtraFine LCD with TruBlack technology (921K dots) gives you deeper blacks and more colour in your display, all while being thinner than most LCDs.

Compact Camera With 16x Optical Zoom

The Sony 16x optical zoom G lens brings distant subjects super close for great outdoors, sports, and travel photos. The compact size makes it easy to take along in a pocket, purse, or backpack.

Full HD 1080/60p Video

Record crystal clear movies at the highest resolution available with capabilities for 60p in 1080 Full HD. This provides stunning, fast motion video with less distortion for playback on your Blu-ray Disc players, Sony PlayStation 3 systems and compatible PCs and HDTVs.

Backlight Correction HDR

Don't miss a single detail in high contrast shots. The built in backlight correction analyzes the image and automatically adjusts accordingly to give you a perfectly lit shot. Backlight Correction HDR helps correct for this by taking three pictures at different exposure settings and processing the best elements of each into a single image for more natural looking shots.

3D Still Image and 3D Sweep Panorama Mode

Produce awe-inspiring images with 3D still image and 3D Sweep Panorama capabilities. Photos will take on a new dimension of creative capabilities for viewing the world in a whole new way.

Hi-Speed Linear Focus

Life moves fast, your camera's focus needs to move just as fast. The Hi-speed linear focus achieves dramatically clearer images with an auto focus that moves just as fast as your life.

Background Defocus

DSLR photographs are often beautiful because they blur the background, putting the emphasis on your subject. Now our point-and-shoot cameras can deliver this signature DSLR benefit. The system takes two shots, identifies the background and applies a defocused background keeping the subject crisp and clear.

Intelligent Sweep Panorama Mode

With Intelligent Sweep Panorama mode just press the shutter, pan the landscape and let the camera do the rest. It automatically links together each frame to produce a high resolution panoramic image providing the ability to zoom in on small details. This model even detects faces and moving subjects to stitch intelligently different widths to help avoid subject distortion.

Digital Zoom

Capturing the right shot at the right moment has never been so easy. Digital zoom brings you right close up to the action so you can get that perfect shot, every time.

Optical SteadyShot Image Stabilization

Optical SteadyShot image stabilization uses a built-in gyro sensor to detect camera shake and automatically shifts the lens to help prevent blur without sacrificing image quality.

Natural Flash

Conventional point-and-shoot camera flash shots just don't capture colors the way the eye sees them. Natural Flash mode takes a reference shot without flash and then uses that reference to correct the color, for far more lifelike images.

Superior Auto Mode

Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed shots. The camera automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then quickly shoots and combines up to six shots to produce images with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range using backlight correction HDR technology and lower image noise using 6 shots layering technology. Superior Auto intelligently detects 33 scenes for still images and 44 scenes for movies, making it easy to get the best shot.

Face Detection Technology

Sony's Face Detection technology can automatically distinguish between children and adults. Face Detection technology detects up to eight individual faces and adjusts flash, focus, exposure, and white balance to help deliver crisp, properly lit images of family and friends.

HDMI Output

The High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a compact audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed digital streams. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources such as a compatible camcorder, Blu-ray Disc player, a personal computer, a video game console, or an AV receiver to a compatible digital audio device and/or video monitor such as a digital television (DTV). Easily connect your Cyber-shot camera via HDMI cable to any compatible HDMI compatible device to easily enjoy and upload content.

Soft Skin Mode

Portrait subjects will love the results. Soft Skin mode recognizes skin tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles without affecting the rest of the shot.

Smile Shutter Technology

Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply press the Smile Shutter button and the camera does the rest. You can also select adult and child priority and indicate the degree of Smile Detection sensitivity. Intelligent Scene Recognition can be used together with Smile Shutter mode. This means that beautiful smiles can be captured with settings optimized for the particular scene, even in difficult conditions such as twilight and backlighting.

Anti-Blink Function

It's frustrating to capture the perfect shot, only to review it later and discover subjects blinked during the photo. When the camera is set to Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two images, recording only the photo with less squinting or blinking. If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.

Compatible with PC and Mac Systems

The Full HD video captured with the DSC-HX9V can be used with the provided Picture Motion Browser software for PC and iMovie (sold separately) for Mac systems.

Includes Sony PMB Portable Software

With the pre-installed Picture Motion Browser (PMB) Portable the DSC-HX9V makes it easy to pre-select videos and images in the camera and conveniently upload them from the camera to a compatible PC and popular Internet sharing sites without the need for any additional software to install.

Includes Sony PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Software Ver. 5.5

Sony Picture Motion Browser software offers a simple, intuitive way to transfer, sort, and view your video and still images on your compatible PC. In addition, multiple output options let you burn your memories to DVD using an external DVD burning device (sold separately), as well as take advantage of one click upload to a number of popular video and photo sharing sites (such as Facebook and Sony's Personal Space site).

What's Included:

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V Digital Camera (Black)
• Rechargeable Battery Pack (NP-BG1)
• USB Charger
• USB Cable
• AC Adaptor AC-UB10/UB10B
• Wrist Strap
• CD-ROM
• Instruction Manual
• Limited Warranty