Capturing Images

Simply point the camera so your chosen image appears on the LCD screen, and touch the shutter button to capture an image.

Sony Digital Cameras come with an automatic flash feature and also have additional features for taking pictures in special light conditions. This Digital Camera comes with zoom, auto focus and a manual white balance, so you can further control your image appearance and quality. Features to consider include:

Picture Freeze on LCD with Quick Replay
Take a close look at the image you're capturing by instantly freezing it on your LCD. Simply press and hold the shutter button down. For convenient playback, return to the play mode and use quick replay to display the last image captured.

Built-In Intelligent Pop-Up Flash
Use to brighten your pictures in low light conditions. You can select from three modes: On, Off or Automatic in which the camera will automatically turn on in low light and/or adjust for the optimum amount of flash. The 'Pop-Up' flash offers the ability to conceal the flash when not in use.

Auto Exposure With Three Pre-Programmed Exposure Modes
To give you the best possible results when shooting in difficult light conditions. The different AE modes are: Shutter Priority, Iris Priority, and Twilight.

Auto Exposure and White Balance
Assures correct exposure of subjects automatically. White balance automatically adjusts color for true to life images.

Manual Exposure
For the best results, exposure can be manually controlled with 7 different settings. (-1.5 to +1.5 EV)

The MPEG Movie Mode allows you to capture video and audio together digitally and use it for presentations or Internet downloads. And in the Voice Memo Mode you can record sound along with your still photos.

MPEG Movie
The MVC-FD91 allows you to capture up to 60 seconds of video and audio right onto a standard 3.5" floppy disk. This is the fastest easiest way to get video and audio into your personal computer, for E-Mail, Web sites, or presentations, etc.

MPEG Movie offers 2 settings:

1. Presentation Mode, up to 15 sec. (320 x 240)

2. Video Mail Mode, up to 60 sec. (160 x 112).

Voice Memo Mode
This mode allows you to conveniently add narration to a still image. Use in presentations, or slide shows to describe and demonstrate images or ideas.

Zoom Lens

If you like to get close to your subjects, use Auto Macro for shots up to 1 inch from your subject.

Once you've stored your images, you can view them several ways:

1. Use the LCD display to review all the images you've created. You can even crop and edit your photos while they're still in the camera. Simply press and hold the shutter button down.

2. For convenient playback, return to the Play mode and use Quick Replay to Display the last image captured.

Editing the Captured Image

In digital imaging, half the fun comes after you've taken the picture. The Digital Cameras gives you the flexibility to crop, enlarge, reduce, brighten, darken, or add a silly face on to your best friend, using the photo software supplied with the Digital Cameras.

You can also view, manipulate and share your images through Sony's ImageStation^SM Web site.

Saving the Captured Image

Once you press the Digital Camera shutter button, your images are stored and can be accessed quickly and easily at any time by setting the camera to the "play" mode, and viewing the images on the LCD display.

The Digital Camera saves images in three different digital file formats:

JPEG, TIFF, BMP or MPEG.

While all three of these file formats can be read by most photo software, use the .JPEG format for still photographs and the MPEG format for your moving pictures.

Avoid using the TIFF format.Use the Bit-Map Mode only when you need to save images in a non-compressed format which will give you a better image but a larger file size.

Your files can be saved to any 3.5" standard computer disk.

With this format you can take your images directly to your PC to send them via email or manipulate them with the supplied photo image software.

E-mailing Captured Images

Most Sony Digital Cameras can save your images in "e-mail mode," meaning they'll create an image that is optimized to be sent via the Internet. Images saved this way can be sent quickly and are quicker to upload and download.

E-Mail Mode
Need to send images over the Internet? For still images, E-mail mode reduces the size of your file to 1/4 the standard file 320 x 240 for fast Internet downloads. To send MPEG files over the Internet, the E-mail mode will reduce the image size to 160 x 112. Now your pictures or videos will be sent with ease and speed.

Whole Disk Copy lets you make a copy of your pictures right inside the camera.

Simply select the Disk Copy from the menu with your original disk in the camera and the Mavica will save images in temporary memory.

Place a new disk in and you have an exact copy of all your pictures to share with anyone.

You are not limited to just pictures, Excel®, PowerPoint® and Word® files can be copied from disk to disk
 
 

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