Sony Announces New 4GB Digicam

t's going to be easy to keep this season's holiday photos in one convenient location with Sony's new mega-capacity Cyber-shot DSC-T2 digital camera. This 8 megapixel model features 4GB of internal memory and can store up to 40,000 VGA-quality photos or 1,000 8-megapixel pictures, doing away with the need to manage multiple media cards.

And no, you won’t need to spend hours trying to find your pictures on this camera. The camera's album folder makes it easy to organize and access thousands of photos in-camera. Images can be viewed in chronological order and displayed in a helpful calendar view. By installing the bundled Picture Motion Browser software, you can also view images by events like birthdays or Sunday BBQs.

Your precious photos can be selected and moved to the camera's 'Favorites' folder for virtually instant retrieval, without any need to navigate through hundreds of pictures. In Favorites, photos can be arranged in six separate subfolders at the touch of a finger.

The 'Sharemark' folder can store photos and videos deemed worthy for sharing beyond the camera on to the web. The T2 model is preloaded with Sony PMB Portable software, a user-friendly application that automatically runs when the device is connected to a compatible PC via the supplied USB cable. You can publish photos and videos directly to web-sharing sites such as Flickr, Photobucket, Shutterfly and YouTube.

A touch-panel LCD screen replaces small buttons with on-screen icons, and camera operation is made fast and simple thanks to a user-friendly interface. You can simply touch the screen to select the subject you want to focus on (shooting mode), and where you want to zoom in (playback mode).

The Cyber-shot DSC-T2 digital camera will ship in December for about $350 in the US. No news yet on its Indian launch and price.