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PENTAX Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the PENTAX Optio S7, a compact digital camera slimly designed for greater portability.
The Optio S7 is the latest model in our Optio S series, which is renowned for its slim and stylish compact bodies. In addition to an upgraded 7.0-effective-megapixel, this model has been decked out with extra features to make it easier to use, including a Blur Reduction mode, which reduces camera shake and subject blurring, and Face Recognition AF & AE, a function that simplifies portrait-taking by automatically detecting the position of the subject's face and adjusting the focus and exposure based on the detected position. |
Major Features
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- Stylish and slim compact body
The Optio S7's thin compact body with an attractive design makes carrying the camera comfortable and convenient not just on trips and special outings but also for everyday snapshots and business. Despite incorporating a 3X optical zoom lens into the camera, we managed to create a slimmer and lighter body with our original Sliding Lens System *1 and high-density mounting technology.
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- PENTAX's proprietary lens system which offsets the central lens groups from the optical lens axis and houses the lens in two steps in the lens cylinder for minimized overall body depth.
- New Blur Reduction mode reduces camera shake and subject blurring
The Optio S7 is equipped with a Blur Reduction mode, *2 a new feature that lets you take photos at faster shutter speeds for sharper images even in dim lighting conditions such as night scenes and indoor sporting events. In this mode, the camera automatically adjusts the sensitivity to as high as ISO 1600 to match the brightness of the subject. The higher sensitivities permit faster shutter speeds that effectively reduce not just camera shake but also blurring caused by moving subjects.
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- The image recording size is fixed at 4 MB (2304 x 1728 pixels) when the Blur Reduction mode is selected.
- Face Recognition AF & AE for beautiful one-step portraits
The camera includes the new Face Recognition AF & AE *3 function, which allows you to take bright, beautiful photos of people with perfectly focused faces free of shadows caused by exposing for the background or for the colors of clothing. This useful function automatically detects the position of the subject's anywhere in the photo frame and then adjusts the focus and optimizes the exposure for the detected position.
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- This camera's Face Recognition AF & AE function uses the Face Tracker face-recognition technology from FotoNation.
- Auto-tracking AF continuously focuses on a moving subject
The Optio S7's auto-tracking AF feature continuously focuses on subjects such as kids and pets that move around unpredictably. Since the focus frame automatically follows the movement of the subject inside the photo frame, you can be sure to capture those instantaneous photo opportunities.
- High-quality movies with an anti-shake function
The Optio S7 smoothly captures movies at 30 fps (frames per second) at sizes up to 640 x 480 pixels with image quality rivaling camcorders. Since it employs the DivX® (MPEG-4 compliant) movie format, *4 the Optio S7 can record longer, high-quality movies. Camera shake while filming can also be corrected automatically by switching on the movie anti-shake function. *5
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- The Optio S7 is DivX® certified. Movie playback is not supported on Macintosh operating systems.
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- Using the movie anti-shake function results in a narrower field of view than during normal recording.
- Auto Picture mode automatically determines the best settings for the shooting conditions
The Auto Picture mode lets the camera automatically determine the shooting conditions for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, and Program modes and choose the optimum settings for each subject. This PENTAX original function makes photography a lot easier for users since it eliminates the necessity of making a number of individual settings.
- The image quality of 7.0 effective megapixels permits beautiful, crisp prints even at large-format sizes
The Optio S7 produces clear images with impressive quality thanks to the high resolution afforded by its 7.0 effective megapixels and to its high-performance smc PENTAX lens. This superlative resolution makes it possible to attain prints with crisp details even when the photo is greatly enlarged. Additionally, a high-performance ASIC *6 supplies the camera with dramatically more image-processing power, giving more natural tone reproductions and textured portraits.
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- Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
- Supports the SDHC memory card for greater storage of high-quality images and longer movies
The Optio S7 supports two removable storage media: the conventional SD memory cards and the new SDHC memory cards. *7
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- SD High Capacity; these memory cards have capacities in excess of 2 GB.
- Red-eye correction available after shooting
The Optio S7 comes with FotoNation's red-eye correction function, which can correct red-eye problems, a side effect of flash photography, after the photo is taken. With the ability to manually select the area to correct, this function allows for more precise correction of red-eye photos.
- Other features
- Approx. 232,000 pixels high-resolution, 2.5-inch non-glare LCD monitor with excellent outdoor visibility
- Mode Palette provides quick access to 16 shooting modes and 15 playback modes
- Frequently used functions can be assigned to the Green button
- Digital zooming provides up to 4X magnification
- Approximately 23 MB of built-in memory
- Built-in AF spotbeam (on/off switching possible)
- Includes the ACDSee for PENTAX image viewer/image management software
- Supports PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching
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