Sony Announces New HX1 Digital Camera and Cyber-Shot Accessories

LAS VEGAS (PMA #F171), March 2, 2009 - Sony is spotlighting its first digital still camera to feature sweep panorama technology here at the Photo Marketing Association confab. The new HX1 Cyber-shot model can take 224-degree panorama shots in one easy press-and-sweep motion.

It is also the company's first Cyber-shot camera to use the exclusive 1/2.4-inch Exmor CMOS sensor technology. This technology allows it to achieve burst speeds of 10 frames per second at full 9.1 megapixel resolution in continuous burst mode.

Setting it apart from most digital still cameras, which use an electronic shutter to achieve high speed, the HX1 unit has a mechanical shutter that helps reduce distortion when shooting a moving subject....

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Sony also announced a slew of Cyber-Shot Accessories, from underwater housings and cameras cases, to telephoto lens adapters.