Put some personality into your camera
Download apps to your camera
Personalize your camera by adding new features of your choice. PlayMemories Camera Apps™ can make your camera easier to use, help refine your photos and take you in new creative directions.
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Find apps to fit your shooting style
For portraits, detailed close-ups, sports and more. There’s an app to help you capture the perfect shot.
Easily add professional image effects
Discover tools to help you create stunning artistic images and retouch your photos with professional looking results.
Shoot, share and save photos using Wi-Fi®
Apps make it easy to control and view your camera from smartphone, or Apps to post photos directly to Facebook® or backup images to the cloud without connecting to a computer*.
Shop for apps right on your camera
All you need is a Wi-Fi connection to access and browse through a growing collection of apps that instantly upgrade your camera.
Picture Effect+ App
Add more creativity to your camera
Expand your camera’s capabilities and your imagination with six new Picture Effects in one app.
- Partial Color+
- Watercolor
- Illustration
- Illustration">Soft High-Key+">Illustration
- Illustration">Miniature+">Miniature+
- Toy Camera+
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Partial Color+
Converts your images to a black and white and lets you select one or two highlight colors that virtually burst off your photos as eye-catching accents.
Direct Upload App
Share photos directly.
Use Wi-Fi to instantly upload photos and video to media sharing sites and Facebook without a computer.
Wi-Fi upload from camera
Smart Remote Control App
Control your camera with your smartphone
No more rushing to get into your own shots. Just use your smartphone as remote viewfinder and shutter release. You can even use it to adjust the exposure and see your new photos.
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Setting up your phone
You'll need to install the PlayMemories Mobile™ Ver.2.0+ app. Look for it in the iPhone® App Store or Google Play™ for Android™.
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Take Control
Just download the Smart Remote Control app to your camera and the PlayMemories Mobile app to your phone to get started.
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Photo Retouch App
Enhance every photo you take
Fine-tune your images with a powerful app that lets you retouch photos on your camera’s screen while saving the originals.
Image Framing
Automatically frames images and gives you several options including Portrait Framing with face detection.
Brightness Controls
Lets you control the brightness level of photos
before or after taking the shot.
Saturation Controls
Lets you set the color intensity using Live View
before shooting or while editing afterwards.
Contrast Controls
Allows you to select the color contrast of images
before or after shooting.
Horizontal Adjustment
Lets you adjust horizontal alignment of your
photos after shooting.
Soft Skin Effect
Gives you the ability to soften selected faces in
your photos after shooting.
Image Resize
Makes it easy for you to resize any
image after shooting.
Choose your best shots
Take your creativity beyond simple Exposure Bracketing with Bracket Pro!
Shutter Speed
Takes three photos at different shutter speeds to create motion or to freeze subjects.
15.0 sec.
Long Exposure
0.8 sec.
Medium Exposure
1/4 sec.
Short Exposure
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Time-lapse
Automatically generates captivating time-lapse movies by shooting a series of still images at intervals and combining them into one dramatic video.
Rollover
Cinematic Photo
Creates enchanting video photographs that allow you highlight a portion of the image by setting it in motion while the rest of the composition remains still.
Getting started is easy
All you need is access to Wi-Fi or a USB connection to a computer with internet access.
Wi-Fi network
wirelessly
Directly upload photos to share instantlyStep 01
Connect your camera to an available WI-FI network.
Step 02
Locate the "PlayMemories Camera Apps" from the applications screen on your camera.
Step 03
Choose an app and download the app to your camera and begin having fun.
Download available in all countries/areas where Sony Entertainment Network is available.
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