Sony Cyber-shot® DSC-T77 10.1-megapixel digital camera with 4X optical zoom (Pink)

General Features
Recording Images
Viewing, Editing and Printing Images
Supplied Software

General Features

Memory Stick Compatibility: This camera is compatible with the following recording media: Memory Stick Duo, MagicGate Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, and Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo. All compatible Memory Stick Duos can be used to record still pictures and moving images with audio. The full size Memory Stick is not compatible.

15 MB Internal Memory: This camera has a 15 MB internal memory. Even when there is no Memory Stick inserted in the camera, you can record images using the internal memory. This memory is not removable.

Image Recording Format: The camera records still images in JPEG format. Moving images with audio (monaural) are recorded in MPEG1.

Imaging Device: For optimal image quality, the camera uses a 7.7mm (1/2.3" type) Super HAD color CCD imaging device with approximately 10.3-million gross pixels and 10.1-million effective pixels. More pixels give you more detail and definition when you make big prints or crop in tight on your subject.

BIONZ: The camera is equipped with the BIONZ Imaging Processor for delivers high resolution and fast performance.

Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens: The Vario-Tessar lens is specially produced for very compact cameras. This specialized design allows quick auto-focus, appealing zoom range while still maintaining a compact design. The lens has a 4x optical zoom and a focal length of 6.18mm to 24.7mm, equivalent to 35mm to 140mm in 35mm photography. It has a maximum aperture range of F3.5(W) to F4.6(T).

LCD Screen: The DSC-T77 has a 3" color LCD screen with 230,400 pixels (resolution 960 x 240). The LCD screen allows you to view an image before taking a picture and replay images that have been stored in memory. For best viewing, you can adjust the brightness of the LCD monitor when using the camera outdoors.

Image Size: When recording digital still images, the DSC-T77 allows you to choose from seven image sizes. When recording moving images, you can choose from three different image sizes and frame rates. The options include:

Digital Zoom: The camera has a Precision Digital Zoom of 2x. Combined with the 4x optical zoom, the maximum total zoom is 8x.

Function Guide: An on-screen function guide text/icon display makes it easy to learn the camera functions that give you greater creative freedom to adjust photo settings. The function guide can be turned on or off as desired.

Face Detection: When activated, the Face Detection function detects the faces of up to eight subjects and adjusts the focus, strobe, exposure, white balance, and pre-strobe for red-eye reduction. Face Detection helps make skin tones look more natural and eliminates harsh facial glare.

Smile Shutter Mode: The DSC-T77 helps you capture more smiles by shooting automatically when your subject laughs, smiles, even grins. You select the person to watch and the expression to catch, the Face Detection system and intelligent Smile Shutter algorithm do the rest.

Anti-Blink Function: The camera's Anti-Blink function captures two images, and records only the photo with less squinting. It works automatically in the Portrait mode. If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.

Double Anti-Blur Solution: With Optical SteadyShot and high sensitivity (up to ISO3200), the DSC-T77 compensates for shaky hands, minimizes blur, brightens images, and allows flash-free shooting to preserve the mood.

Auto Focus Mode: You can choose from the following AF modes:

• Multi-Point AF: focuses on points throughout the frame, useful when your subject is not centered
• Center AF: focuses on the center of the frame, useful for shooting stationary subjects
• Spot AF: focuses on the area of the frame you specify, allows for small subject or narrow focus area
• Focus Presets: Preset focus distances include 1 meter, 3 meters, 7 meters, and infinity.

AF Illuminator: The AF (auto focus) Illuminator briefly provides fill light to focus more easily on a subject in dark surroundings. The AF Illuminator is most useful within approximately 8' of the subject.

AE/AF Lock: If you have difficulty focusing on an off-center subject, you can set and lock the focus and exposure on the subject by pressing the shutter button halfway with the subject in the AF rangefinder, then recompose the shot and press the shutter button fully to take the picture.

Macro/Close Focus: For close-ups of small objects such as flowers and insects, this camera has macro focus capability and a close focus function. With the zoom set all the way to wide, the camera can focus on objects as close as 7-7/8" from the lens in Macro mode and as close as 13/32" in the Close Focus mode.

Auto Power-Off: If you do not operate the camera for approximately 3 minutes, it will turn off automatically to conserve battery power.

Date and Time: Each time you take a picture, the camera records the date and time. The date and time are not superimposed on the picture, instead saved in a data file along with the image.

Battery Information: The DSC-T77 comes with the NP-BD1 lithium-ion rechargeable battery and BC-CSD battery charger. This battery takes approximately 3 hours 40 minutes to fully charge. It can reach a "practical charge" in approximately 2 hours 40 minutes.

Battery Performance: Under normal operating conditions the battery has the following capacity:

Recording Images

Shooting Modes: The camera features the following shooting modes:

• Auto Adjustment: camera automatically adjusts the focus, exposure and white balance
• Program Auto: you can change the focus, metering mode, ISO, and EV settings
• Scene Selection Modes: choose from the following Scene Selection modes:
  • High Sensitivity: shoot without flash in low light, reducing blur
  • Landscape: focuses only on a distant subject, such as a landscape
  • Soft Snap: capture subject with a softened background
  • Twilight Portrait: shooting people with a dark background
  • Twilight: used for shooting a distant subject at night
  • Gourmet: shoots food arrangements in delicious color
  • Beach: for shooting at seaside or the lakeside
  • Snow: use with a white background
  • Fireworks: record fireworks against a night sky
  • Underwater: shoots underwater in natural colors (when a waterproof case is used)
  • Hi-Speed Shutter: shoot moving subjects outdoors or in other bright places
• Smile Shutter: shutter released automatically when the camera detects a smile (3 levels)
• Scene Recognition: camera automatically detects the shooting conditions before taking the shot

Color Mode: When desired, you can select one of the following picture effects:

• Normal: normal color tones
• Vivid: bright and deep color
• Sepia: sepia-toned like an old photograph
• B & W: in black and white

Movies: Besides recording still images, you can also record moving images with sound. There are three image sizes are available:

• 640 Fine: 640 x 480 @ approximately 30 frames per second (using Memory Stick PRO Duo only)
• 640 Standard: 640 x 480 @ approximately 17 frames per second
• 320: 320 x 240 @ approximately 8 frames per second

Flash Modes: The flash can be set to Flash Auto, Flash On, Slow Synchro, or Flash Off. In Flash Auto mode, the flash automatically strobes when the surroundings are dark. When the flash is set to Flash On, it strobes with every shot. In Slow Synchro, the flash is used regardless of the amount of ambient light, but the shutter speed is slower under dark conditions, allowing you to clearly shoot a background that is out of the flash-lit area. In addition, this camera has a "red-eye reduction" setting, which causes the flash to pre-strobe before shooting to reduce the red-eye phenomenon. The red-eye feature also has an automatic setting, engaging when the camera detects a face in the frame.

Flash Range: The recommended distance using the flash is 3-1/4" to 9' 10-1/8" with the zoom set to wide, and 1' 7-3/4" to 7' 10-1/2" with the zoom set to telephoto.

High Sensitivity Mode: For better shots in low light, or when you can't use flash, you can set the camera to the high sensitivity mode of ISO 3200. The ISO speed can be also be set to Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, or 1600. When shooting under dark conditions or shooting a fast-moving subject, you should use a high number setting. When recording high-quality images, use a low number setting.

Metering Modes: You can select Center-weighted or Multi-pattern Metering. Center-weighted metering measures the center of the image and determines the exposure based on the brightness of the subject. When multi-pattern metering is used, the image is divided into multiple regions and metering is performed in each region. The camera judges the subject position and background brightness, and determines a well-balanced exposure.

White Balance: When the white balance is set to auto, the white balance is set automatically in response to the condition of the subject, and the overall color balance is adjusted. When shooting under special lighting conditions, you can select the settings manually. When using flash, you can select the flash white balance mode. In addition to Auto and Flash, the white balance can be set to Incandescent, Fluorescent 1 (white fluorescent), Fluorescent 2 (natural white fluorescent), Fluorescent 3 (day white fluorescent), Daylight, and Cloudy.

Exposure Adjustment: Besides auto exposure, you can adjust the exposure from +2.0EV to -2.0EV in 1/3 stop increments.

Approximate Still Image Recording Capacity:

Approximate Movie Recording Capacity:

Viewing, Editing and Printing Images

Viewing Images: Still and moving images can be played back on the camera's color LCD screen, or the images may be transferred to a computer, where they can be displayed or manipulated with the use of compatible software. In addition, the images can be played back on a television, if the television has an RCA composite video input.

Index Mode: In addition to viewing images one-by-one in full screen, you can view multiple images at once in the index mode. This feature lets you to display 12 or 20 thumbnail images, allowing you to easily find the image you want.

Slide Show: The Slide Show function lets you play back images one after the other. You can select from a Date View, Event View, Favorites, and Folder View.

Music Transfer: You can change the music files that are preset at the factory with your own music, using the Music Transfer program in the supplied CD-ROM.

Playback Zoom: You can enlarge a recorded still image up to five times the size of the original image. You can also record the enlarged item as a new file (Trimming). To select the area to be enlarged, you can move the enlargement "frame" up/down/left/right with the arrow buttons, and adjust the zoom with the W/T button.

Retouch: You can modify and apply special effects to still images, keeping the original file intact

• Trimming: enlarge and crop the image
• Red-eye Correction: corrects red-eye caused by flash
• Unsharp Masking: sharpens the picture around a chosen point
• Soft Focus: blur the surroundings to emphasize the subject
• Partial Color: surround subject with black and white
• Fisheye Lens: apply fisheye effect around a chosen point
• Cross Filter: add a starburst effect to light sources
• Radial Blur: blurs area around a focal point to express movement
• Retro: softens the image by blurring the focus and lowering the surrounding light; appears to have been taken by an old camera
• Happy Faces: modifies people's faces to appear as smiling
• Paint: paint characters or graphics on a still image

Deleting/Protecting Images: You can delete a selected image, or you can delete all the unprotected images at once. In order to avoid accidentally deleting an image, it can be protected.

Print Mark: You can place a print mark on still images recorded with this camera. This mark is convenient when you have images printed at a shop that conforms to the DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) standard.

Exif Print (Exif 2.21): The DSC-T77 conforms to "Exif Print," a worldwide standard. Vital camera settings (such as: exposure mode, white balance, exposure time) and scene data are recorded to the image file when it is captured. Printers compatible with "Exif Print" are able to use this information to produce high quality photographs, exactly the way they were intended at the time of capture. This intelligent communication process also allows the printer to correct for poor lighting or mistakes, resulting in photos that can be even better than the originals.

PictBridge Printing Capability: Using the supplied USB cable, you can connect this camera directly to a PictBridge compliant printer. PictBridge is a new standard that allows you to connect a PictBridge compliant camera directly to a PictBridge compliant printer and make prints, regardless of brand.

Supplied Software

Software: The DSC-T77 comes with a CD-ROM containing the following:

• Picture Motion Browser (Ver.3.2.03): compatible with Windows operating systems only
  • View images saved on your computer
  • View photos organized by date
  • Edit images
  • Display the shooting locations of still images on maps online (Internet connection required)
  • Create a new data disc (CD burner drive or DVD burner drive required)
  • Print or save still images with the date
• Music Transfer: compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems
  • Change the music files on the camera and replace them with your own selections; upload MP3s from your computer or music from CDs
• Cyber-shot Handbook: a detailed instruction booklet (PDF)
• Step-up Guide: information on accessories for the camera
• Product Registration: register your camera online

System Requirements: You can copy images from the DSC-T77 to a Windows PC or a Macintosh computer. The supplied Picture Motion Browser software can only be used on a Windows PC; it cannot be used on a Macintosh. The supplied Music Transfer software can be used on both a Windows PC and a Macintosh. The minimum requirements are:

• PC: The recommended environment for using PMB and Music Transfer:
  • OS (pre-installed): Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (SP4), XP (SP3), or Vista (SP1)
  • Interface: USB port
  • CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz or faster (Pentium III 800 MHz of faster recommended)
  • Memory: 256 MB or more (512 MB or more is recommended)
  • Hard Disk: approximately 400 MB required for installation
  • Display: 1024 x 768 dots or more colors; High Color (16-bit color) or more
• Macintosh: The recommended environment for importing images and using Music Transfer:
  • OS: OS 9.1 / 9.2 / Mac OS X v10.1 to v10.5 (OS X v10.3 to v10.5 for Music Transfer)
  • Interface: USB port
  • Memory: 64 MB or more (128 MB or more is recommended) for Music Transfer
  • Hard Disk: 250 MB or more (required for installation) for Music Transfer