Sony SLT-A37 BROCHURE

SLT-A37

Capture your perfect moments with Sony’s exclusive Translucent Mirror
Technology DSLR superior performance whether you’re shooting HD
movies or still images. Tele-zoom High Speed Shooting at up to 7 frames
per second, complete with continuous auto focus. Auto focus is also
visibly faster in Live View and HD Movie modes.

Translucent Mirror Technology

Conventional DSLRs can shoot. Or they can focus with the speed and precision of Phase
Detection AF. They cannot do both at once. The SLT-A37 utilizes Translucent Mirror Technology
that directs light to both the image sensor and the Phase Detection AF sensor simultaneously.

16.1 megapixel resolution

You get incredible detail and gorgeous enlargements. Thanks to the 16.1 megapixel APS-C
sensor size and Sony Exmor® APS HD CMOS technology, the camera achieves high resolution
with no penalty in low-light sensitivity or sensor noise.

ISO 16000 sensitivity

Incredibly clear low-light pictures without sacricing detail, made possible by the low-noise
Exmor® APS HD CMOS image sensor and rened BIONZ® image processor.

Full HD 1080/60i/24p movies1

This is one of the very few DSLRs with super smooth 1080/60i/24p Full HD recording capability.
Records in your choice of 1080/60i or 24p AVCHD™ format or in PC-friendly 1080/30p MP4
format.1

Tele Zoom High Speed Shooting

The translucent mirror makes it far easier to capture the decisive soccer kick or your baby at her
absolute cutest. The Tele Zoom High Speed shooting mode shoots up to 7 fps at 8.4 MP while
maintaining continuous auto focus and auto exposure.

Auto Portrait Framing

Simply photograph a person and Auto Portrait Framing will save an additional, optimally framed
image in portrait or landscape orientation. Combining Face Detection and By Pixel Super
Resolution technologies with rule of thirds, Auto Portrait Framing provides beautifully composed
and appealingly balanced full resolution portraits.

Eye-Level Electronic Viewnder

The eye-level nder is one of the reasons people love DSLRs. But that nder goes dark whenever
you shoot HD Movies. The Sony® SLT-A37 enables you to shoot movies with the added stability
you get holding the camera up to your face and using the eye-level nder for framing a scene
and focus. The Tru-nder™ Electronic Viewnder (EVF) is super bright, easy to see with an ultra­sharp 1.1x magnication factor. For those who require a longer eye-point (eyeglass wearers), it
also provides a function for adjusting the nder magnication ratio.

Tilting 3” 230K LCD dot screen

Tilt LCD up 135° or down 55° to frame high- and low-angle shots that would otherwise be hit-or­miss.

Clear Image Zoom

Utilizing Sony’s exclusive By Pixel Super Resolution Technology, Clear Image Zoom increases the
eective focal length of your lens up to 2x by digitally magnifying the center of your image with
nearly imperceptible degradation that provides greater shooting exibility.

Superior Auto+ mode

Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed shots. Unies and simplies Sony intelligent
technologies, the camera automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then quickly shoots
and combines up to six shots to produce images with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range
using Auto HDR technology and lower image noise using 3 shots layering technology.

Sony® Exmor® technology

Conventional image sensors use only a handful of analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, which can
slow you down. The Exmor® sensor provides more than 4,000 column-parallel A/D converters.
This helps enable continuous shooting at up to 7 frames per second.

BIONZ® image processor

The brains of the camera is a rened version of Sony's BIONZ® image processor. Its chroma noise
reduction delivers high-resolution, low-noise photos even at ISO 16000 sensitivity. Also enables up
to 5.5 fps continuous shooting at full resolution, Sweep Panorama™ mode and more.

Specications

Camera

Lens
Compatibility

Lens Mount

Camera Type

Imaging Sensor

Imaging Sensor

Processor

Anti Dust

Pixel Gross

Eective
Picture
Resolution

Focal Length
Conversion
Factor

Color Filter
System

Recording

Media Type

Color Space

Still Image
Mode

Still Image Size
16:9

Still Image Size
3:2

Sony A-mount lens

Sony A-mount

Sony A-mount
interchangeable
lens digital
camera

Exmor™ APS HD
CMOS sensor (23.4
X 15.6mm)

BIONZ™ image
processor

Charge protection
coating on Low­Pass Filter and
Image Sensor-Shi
mechanism

Approx. 16.5
megapixels

Approx. 16.1
megapixels

1.5x

RGB primary color
lters

Memory Stick PRO
Duo™, Memory
Stick PRO-HG
Duo™, SD memory
card, SDHC
memory card,

SDXC memory
card

sRGB, AdobeRGB

JPEG (Standard,
Fine), RAW,
RAW+JPEG

L: 4912 x 2760
(14M), M: 3568
x 2000 (7.1M), S:
2448 x 1376 (3.4M)

L: 4912 x 3264
(16M), M: 3568
x 2368 (8.4M), S:
2448 x 1624 (4M)

Panorama Still
Image Size

Video Format

Video Mode

Video
Resolution

Video Signal

Audio Format

Microphone/
Speaker

Optics/Lens

Lens Mount
Type

Viewnder

Type

Diopter
Adjustment

Field of View

Magnication

Horizontal Wide:
12,416 x 1,856
(23M)

Horizontal Std.:
8,192 x 1,856 (15M)

Vertical Wide:
2,160 x 5,536 (12M)

Vertical Std.: 2,160
x 3,872 (8.4M)

3D Sweep
Panorama:

Horizontal Wide:
7152 X 1080 (7.7M)

Horizontal Std.:
4912 X 1080 (5.3M)

16:9: 1920 X 1080
(2.1M)

AVCHD Ver. 2.0/
MP4 compliant
/ MPEG-4 AVC
(H.264)

AVCHD: 1920
x 1080/ 60i
(60i/24Mbps/ FX,
60i/17Mbps/ FH,
24p/24Mbps/ FX,
24p/17Mbps/ FH)

MP4 HD: 1440 x
1080/ 30p (29.97
Progressive)
Approx. 12Mbps
(Average bit-rate)

MP4 VGA: 640 x
480/ 30p (29.97
Progressive)
Approx. 3Mbps
(Average bit-rate)

1920x1080/60i
(59.94i, 29.97p
sensor output)

NTSC color, EIA
standards

Dolby Digital
(AC-3) / MPEG-4
AAC-LC, 2ch

Built-in Stereo
Microphone

Sony A-mount

0.46" SVGA
Xtra Fine EVF
(Electronic
viewnder)
(1,440,000 pixels)

-4.0 to +4.0m-1

100%

1.09x (with 50mm
lens at innity,

-1m-1 )

LCD Display

LCD Type

Angle
Adjustment

Brightness
Control

Coverage

Live View

Real-time
image
adjustment
display

Histogram

Peaking

Grid Display

Customization

3.0” TFT Clear
Photo LCD
(230,400 pixels)

Tilt angle: Up
approx. 135
degrees, down 55
degrees

Auto/Manual (5
steps between

-2 and +2)/Sunny
Weather

100%

Continuous Live
View (LCD/EVF
Auto, selectable)

Reects: exposure
compensation,
white balance,
creative style

Yes (On/o)

Yes (Level: High/
Mid/Low/O,
Color: White/Red/
Yellow)

Yes (On/o)

Grid, Histogram
display, Grid Line,
Magnied display
for playback

Focus Control

Focus System

Focus Points

AF Modes

Focus Area

Focus Sensitivity

Focus Features

AF Illuminator

TTL phase
detection AF
(CCD line sensors)

15 points (3 points
cross type)

Single-shot
AF(AF-S),
Continuous
AF(AF-C), Auto
selectable(AF-A)

Wide (auto, 15
points), Zone,
Spot, Local
(15 local areas
selectable)

-2 EV to +17 EV (at
ISO100 equivalent
with F1.4 lens
attached)

Tracking Focus,
Predictive control
(AF-A,AF-C), Focus
lock, Eye-start AF

Built-in ash,
Range: approx. 3'

- 15' (1m-5m)

Exposure System

Metering

Metering
Modes

Metering
Sensitivity

Exposure
Compensation

Exposure
Settings

Scene Mode(s)

Picture Eect(s)

D-Range
Optimizer

Auto Exposure
Lock

Advanced 1200­zone evaluative
metering

Multi-segment,
Center-weighted,
Spot

-2EV to 17EV (at
ISO 100 equivalent
w/ f/1.4 lens)

±2.0 EV (in 0.3 EV
steps)

iAUTO, Flash O,
Superior Auto,
Scene Selection,
Sweep Panorama,
3D Sweep
Panorama,

Tele-zoom
Continuous
Advance Priority
AE, Movie,
Programmed
AE (P), Aperture
priority (A),

Shutter-speed
priority (S), Manual
(M)

Portrait,
Landscape,
Macro, Sports
Action, Sunset,
Night Portrait,
Night View, Hand­held Twilight

11 modes
(15 eects):
Posterization
(Color, B/W), Pop
Color, Retro Photo,
Partial Color
(R,G,B,Y),

High Contrast
Monochrome, Toy
Camera, So High­key, So Focus,
HDR Painting,
Rich-tone

Monochrome,
Miniature

O, Dynamic
Range Optimizer
(Auto/Level), Auto
High Dynamic
Range (O,
Auto Exposure
Dierence,
Exposure
dierence Level
(1-6EV, 1.0EV
step))

Available with AE
lock button. AE is
also locked when
focus is locked
in multi-segment
metering

mode.