The pictures used in this manual

The photographs used as examples of pictures in this manual are reproduced images, and are not actual images shot using this camera.

About the Carl Zeiss lens

This camera is equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens which is capable of reproducing fine images. The lens for this camera uses the MTF# measurement system for cameras developed jointly by Carl Zeiss, in Germany, and Sony Corporation, and offers the same quality as other Carl Zeiss lenses. The lens for your camera is also T*-coated to suppress unwanted reflection and faithfully reproduce colors.

#MTF is an abbreviation of Modulation Transfer Function, a numeric value indicating the amount of light from a specific part of the subject gathered at the corresponding position in the image.

Trademarks

“Memory Stick,” , and “MagicGate Memory Stick” are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

“Memory Stick Duo” and

are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

“Memory Stick PRO” and

are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

“MagicGate” and are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

“InfoLITHIUM” is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of the U.S. Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Macintosh, Mac OS and QuickTime are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.

Pentium is a trademark or a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.

CompactFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation.

Microdrive is a registered trademark of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in the United States and/or other countries.

In addition, system and product names used in this manual are, in general, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective

developers or manufacturers. However, the or ® marks are not used in all cases in this manual.

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