October 22, 2003
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| The Sony marketing company puts ‘DSC-U40' by which the
taking a picture functions such as the animation taking a picture
and 連写(unknown word) are improved to a small, light "Cyber shot U"
series by which the carrying about taking a picture can daily be
enjoyed on the market. This machine adopted "Memory stick duo" for the record medium, and aimed at making of the main body of about 4mm thin from the conventional model. |
| Type name | Sale day | Hope retail price | Color |
| Digital still
camera "Cyber shot U" 『DSC-U40』 |
November 14 | Open price | Silver Black Deep blue Red |
| I had gotten the
favorable comment as the 2nd and 3rd sub-camera equipped with a high
picture quality design as the camera and a variegated taking a
picture function though the series was "Cyber shot U" small size
after [it] put it on the market as "Camera which daily enjoyed
taking a picture because (*S) carried forever" last summer not to
mention those who new bought it. ‘DSC-U40' put on the market at this time is put on the market as a succession machine of “DSC-U30". Ten 連写(unknown word) became possible in case of the VGA size (640×480 dots) in case of two sizes of another who came to be able continuously to take a picture of the animation taking a picture which was about the maximum and continuousness 15 seconds up to the capacity of the record media and the maximum record size (1632×1224 dots) by 2M. Moreover, the improvement of the taking a picture function and the picture quality is aimed at as [it] comes to be able to select the white balance from five modes (automatic operation, sun light, cloudy weather, fluorescent light, and lamp). |
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| "Memory
stick duo" 1. About 4mm is made thin according to the adoption.
(ratio of conventional model “DSC-U30") | |||||||||||||||
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"Memory stick duo" by which
the size of 1/3 of standard size "Memory stick" was achieved was
adopted for the record medium, and the small size and making the
main body of the camera part thin were achieved. Moreover, [it] corresponds to "Memory stick PRO duo" that the high capacity or more record is possible. | ||||||||||||||
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| 2. The room and outdoor are equipped with the hybrid liquid crystal monitor to see the screen easily. | |||||||||||||||
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A hybrid liquid crystal by which [it] has both the reflection type liquid crystal (Display it by using incidence する(unknown word) light from the display side) and the penetration type liquid crystal (Display it because of the penetration light of the backing light) features is adopted. Outdoor and the room came to see easily. | ||||||||||||||
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| 3. Improvement of taking a picture function | |||||||||||||||
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| - Accessories (sale schedule on November 14) for main optional | |||||||||||||||
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| - Main specification |
| Taking picture element | Total pixel 1/2.7 type
2,100,000 pixel CCD Square pixel and primary color filter, progressive scanning, and “Super HAD CCD" |
| Number of camera effective pixels | Effective 2,000,000 pixels |
| Lens and focus distance | Single focus F2.8･f=5mm (film camera conversion f=33mm of 35mm) |
| AF combination 焦範囲(unknown word) | 0.1m-∞ full range auto focus |
| Shutter speed | Automatic operation |
| Liquid crystal monitor | 1.0 type hybrid type liquid crystal (Number of LCD pixels:About 64,000) |
| Flash | Automatic operation/automatic red eye reduction/compulsion luminescence/luminescence prohibition * recommendation taking a picture distance 0.5m-1.8m |
| Record medium | "Memory stick duo" and "Memory stick PRO duo" |
| Image compression form | Geostationary picture:JPEG and animation:MPEG1 (voice none) |
| Image size (dot) | Geostationary picture
(record):2M size (1632×1224) and VGA size (640×480) Geostationary picture (reproduction):2M size (1632×1224), 1.2M size (1280×960), 1.9M size (1600×1200), and VGA size (640×480) Animation: Video mail mode 160×112 Presentation mode (* voice none of 320×240) |
| 連写(unknown word) function | 2M size (1632×1224):2 pieces and VGA sizes (640×480):Ten pieces |
| White balance | Five modes (automatic operation, sun light, cloudy weather, fluorescent light, and lamp) |
| Digital I/O | Terminal USB (mini-B) |
| Power supply | AAA type nickel hydrogen
charge pond ×2 (attachment) and AAA type alkali battery ×2
(another sales) The USB power supply supply (Only when you connect USB with PC). |
| Consumption electric power (camera mode) | 1.21W (LCD Light ON) 1.09W(LCD Light Off) |
| Externals size | About 82.8×39×26mm (width × height × interior taking) |
| Mass when mass of main body/taking a picture | About 83g/about
114g (Two AAA type nickel hydrogen charge ponds, "Memory stick", and the problem straps contain it) |
| Application software | Geostationary picture/animation processing edit software Pixela ImageMixer Ver.1.5 for Sony/Image Transfer/USB Driver |
| Attached goods | AAA type nickel hydrogen charge pond ×2 and nickel hydrogen battery (*chahjah*), "Memory stick duo" (8MB), memory stick duo adaptor, USB cable, CD-ROM×1, power supply code, problem strap, and another |
| Market presumption price:About
‘DSC-U40'25,000 yen - "Market presumption price" is the one that our company presumed the sales price of the product before [it] puts it on the market in the market. An actual sales price of the product is decided by each shop. |
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| - Sony drive
URLhttp://www.sony.co.jp/SonyDrive - Cyber shot Official Web URLhttp://www.sony.co.jp/cyber-shot/ |