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Sony meets the growing demand for super zoom digital cameras by introducing its new 8-megapixel DSC-H9 and DSC-H7 models with Sony's new advanced sports shooting mode.

Sony DSC-H9 camera

For a family with budding athletes, Sony's DSC-H9 and DSC-H7 cameras meet the demand for shooting at the speed of life. These new cameras can shoot up to 1/4000 of a second, a critical speed for capturing fast-moving sports and freezing the action.

Both, DSC-H9 and DSC-H7, are almost identical except that H9 comes with a 3-inch, flip-up LCD screen whereas H7 camera has a 2.5-inch LCD screen.

Both new models come with high shutter speed shooting and intelligent continuous auto-focusing. The cameras can quickly focus on fast-moving subjects by predicting where those subjects will be in the frame. This predictive technology also helps to reduce shutter lag, the time it takes for the camera to focus and shoot.

Both cameras feature powerful Carl Zeiss 15x optical zoom lenses for up-close shots of big plays on the field. Sony's new face detection technology can identify up to eight faces in the camera's LCD frame, and automatically adjust white balance and flash as well as focus and exposure for correctly exposed, sharp photos.

These new cameras feature high-definition outputs which allows you to simply connect them to your HDTV with the Sony VMC-MHC1 high-definition component cable for magnificent viewing of pictures.

Sony DSC-H9 camera comes with a 3-inch, flip-up LCD screen

Both cameras are powered by the Bionz™ processing engine, which speeds up response times and delivers the fast image processing speeds needed to produce color-rich, detailed pictures for true high-definition photo viewing.

The H9 and H7 cameras incorporate Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization to minimize blur caused by camera shake, an important feature when shooting at slow shutter speeds at full zoom. Their high sensitivity, up to ISO3200, also helps to fight blur resulting from fast-moving subjects.

The H9 camera, the only Cyber-shot model in this year's line to feature NightShot technology, allows you to take photographs in environments with virtually no light so you won't miss the action, even at a late night game.

Picture noise, common to pictures shot at high ISO levels, is minimized by Sony's Clear RAW ™ noise reduction technology.

The H-series cameras incorporate Sony's Dynamic Range Optimizer, originally developed for the Alpha digital SLR system, to analyze captured image data and instantly determine the best exposure and tonality of each picture before JPEG compression.

The in-camera functions also include red-eye correction and photo retouching effects with filters.

The DSC-H9 and DSC-H7 cameras will ship in April for about $480 and $400, respectively. The VMC-HD1 high-definition component cable will also be available in April for about $40. Additional accessories will include wide and telephoto conversion lenses, filters, batteries, travel chargers, sports packs and cases. A

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