| Body material |
Plastic |
| Sensor |
• 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD sensor
• RGB Color Filter Array
• Interline interlaced CCD
• Built-in fixed low-pass filter
• 10.8 million total pixels
• 10.2 million effective pixels |
| Image sizes |
• 3872 x 2592 (L)
• 2896 x 1936 (M)
• 1920 x 1280 (S) |
| File qualities / formats |
• RAW (12-bit,.ARW format)
• RAW + JPEG Fine
• JPEG Fine
• JPEG Standard |
| Dust reduction |
• Static-resistant anti-dust coating
• CCD-shift dust reduction mechanism |
| Lenses |
• Sony Alpha lenses
(also compatible with Minolta A-type bayonet mount lenses) |
| FOV crop |
1.5x |
| Super SteadyShot |
• CCD-Shift ‘Super SteadyShot’ system
• Five level LED shake indicator in viewfinder
• Anti-shake effect: Equivalent to 2.5 – 3.5 steps in shutter speed |
| Auto Focus |
• TTL CCD line sensors (9-points, 8 lines with center cross-hair sensor)
• EV -1 to 18 (ISO 100) detection range
• Predictive focus control for moving subjects
• Auto-tracking focus point display |
| AF area selection |
• Wide AF area
• Spot AF area (center)
• Focus area selection (any of 9) |
| Focus modes |
• Single-shot AF
• Direct Manual Focus
• Continuous AF
• Automatic AF
• Manual focus |
| AF assist illuminator |
Via internal flash, must be raised |
| Eye-start AF |
Yes, selectable from menu |
| Shooting modes |
• Auto
• Programmed AE (with shift)
• Aperture priority AE
• Shutter priority AE
• Manual
• Scene modes (below) |
| Scene modes |
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Macro
• Sports
• Sunset
• Night portrait |
| Sensitivity |
• Auto
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600
• ISO 3200 |
| Metering modes |
• Multi-segment (40 segment Honeycomb pattern)
• Center-weighted
• Spot |
| Metering range |
• EV 1 to 20 (Multi-segment / Center-weighted)
• EV 4 to 20 (Spot metering)
(at ISO 100 with F1.4 lens) |
| AE Lock |
• AEL button
• Half-press shutter release |
| AE Bracketing |
• 3 frames
• 0.3 or 0.7 EV steps |
| Exposure compen. |
• -2.0 to +2.0 EV
• 0.3 EV steps |
| Shutter |
Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane Shutter |
| Shutter Speed |
• 30 to 1/4000 sec
• Bulb |
| Flash X-sync |
1/160 sec |
| Aperture values |
Depends on lens, 0.3 EV steps |
| DOF preview |
Yes, dedicated button |
| White balance |
• Auto
• Daylight
• Shade
• Cloudy
• Tungsten
• Fluorescent
• Flash
• Color temperature (2500 - 9900 K)
• Manual (Custom) |
| White balance fine tuning |
• Auto (none)
• Preset WB: -3 to +3
• Fluorescent WB: -2 to +4
• Color temperature WB: -9 to +9
(Magenta to Green) |
| White balance bracketing |
• 3 frames
• Hi or Lo steps |
| Dynamic range optimizer |
• Off
• Standard
• Advanced |
| Color space |
• sRGB
• Adobe RGB |
| Color modes |
• Standard
• Vivid
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Sunset
• Night view
• B&W
• Adobe RGB |
| Image parameters |
• Contrast (-2 to +2)
• Saturation (-2 to +2)
• Sharpness (-2 to +2) |
| Noise reduction |
• Long exposure for exposures longer than 1 second
• User controllable: On / Off |
| Viewfinder |
• Eye-level fixed pentamirror
• Spherical Acute Matte focusing screen (not changeable)
• Magnification approx. x0.83
• 95% frame coverage
• Diotric adjustment (-2.5 to +1.0)
• Eye-relief 20 mm from eyepiece, 16 mm from frame
• Eyepiece cup removable
• Viewfinder info bar |
| LCD monitor |
• 2.7″ TFT LCD (’Clear Photo LCD Plus’)
• 230,000 pixels
• Anti-reflective coating
• Auto dimmed by viewfinder eye sensor |
| Flash |
• Built-in pop-up flash (auto release)
• Metering: ADI, Pre-flash TTL, Manual flash control
• Guide number 12 (ISO 100/m)
• Angle of coverage 24 mm (35 mm equiv.)
• Flash sync 1/160 sec, 1/125 sec (SteadyShot on) |
| Flash modes |
• Auto
• Fill Flash
• Red-eye Reduction (pre-flash)
• Wireless/Remote Off-camera Flash
• Rear Flash Sync.
• High Speed Sync.
• Slow Sync with AE Lock |
| Flash compensation |
-2.0 to +2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps |
| External flash (optional) |
• Sony HVL-F56M (guide no. 56)
• Sony HVL-F36M (guide no. 36)
• Macro Twin Flash Kit HVL-MT24AM |
| Drive modes |
• Single-frame
• Continuous
• Self-timer (10 or 2 sec)
• Continuous bracket
• Single-frame bracket
• White balance bracket |
| Continuous shooting |
• RAW: 3 fps, up to 6 frames
• RAW+JPEG: 3 fps, up to 3 frames
• JPEG: 3fps, unlimited |
| Self-timer |
• 10 sec
• 2 sec |
| Orientation sensor |
Yes, for shooting, playback and control panel display |
| Connectivity |
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (mass storage or PTP)
• Video out (NTSC or PAL)
• DC-IN
• Remote terminal |
| Video out |
Selectable NTSC or PAL |
| Storage |
• Compact Flash Type I/II
• Supports FAT16 / FAT32 |
| Power |
• NP-FM500H Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery
• Battery charger included
• Optional AC adapter |
| Vertical grip |
VG-B30AM (optional) accepts up to 2x NP-FM500H batteries |
| Dimensions |
131 x 98.5 x 71 mm (5.2 x 3.7 x 2.8 in) |
| Weight (body) |
No battery: 532 g (1.2 lb) |
