Description

The Pentax Optio RS***0 is easy to use and easy to dress to match the personality and style of its owner. This cosmetically customizable digital camera features a new removable Pentax-orginal faceplate system featuring a no-hassle screwless fateplate design and interchangable lens ring snap (choice of orange or black included) to hold custom skins of any personal choice or design. Now, you may change the camera’s appearance in three easy steps without the need for additional tools.

1) Immediately dress the camera in a choice of *0 skins with contemporary designs that ship with the product simply by adding a skin, replacing the faceplate panel, and snapping on the lens ring.

Besides a unique, completely customizable design, the Optio RS***0 features *4 megapixels, a large three-inch LCD monitor, a high-performance 4x optical zoom lens covering *7.5mm wide angle to **0mm telephoto and simple, user-friendly operation. Encased in a lightweight body about the size of a credit-card, the Optio RS***0 is compact enough to carry anywhere.

Pentax Optio RS***0 Highlights

New-generation, easier, faster skin change system

The Optio RS***0 features an easier than ever, simplified faceplate change system to add and remove skins. The transparent acrylic panel may now be affixed or removed without any special tools or screws. Equipped with a choice of *0 included skins, and a new, removable lens ring in a choice of two colors, the Optio RS***0 is easy and fun to dress right out of the box.

Exceptional image quality

With *4 megapixels, superior noise reduction and a high-performance smc Pentax optical zoom lens, the Optio RS***0 delivers brilliant, high-quality images with well-defined details and edge-to-edge sharpness even when images are enlarged.

Digital filters for creative expressions

The Optio RS***0 features nine digital filters including Toy Camera, Retro and Sepia to add a variety of visual effects to images without the need for a computer. Multiple filters may also be applied to a single image for even more unique, creative visual effects.

Automatic face detection with user-friendly features

The Optio RS***0 features the advanced automatic Face Detection AF&AE function to instantly and accurately detect human faces within the image field and optimize focus and exposure settings. The Optio RS***0 also offers more convenient features designed for the easy capture of beautiful snapshots including:

Smile Capture mode automatically releases the shutter the moment the camera detects the subject’s smile

Natural Skin mode to give the subject a smooth, healthy skin tone

Large, easy-to-view *-inch LCD monitor

The compact Optio RS***0 features a large *-inch high-brightness color LCD monitor with approximately **0,**0 dots providing large, detailed images and menus.

Optical 4x zoom lens with wide-angle coverage

A high-performance 4x optical zoom lens covering focal lengths from 4.9mm to *9.6mm (equivalent in the *5mm format to approximately *7.5mm wide angle to **0mm telephoto) is featured on the RS***0. With this wide zoom range, the camera captures a wide variety of subjects and scenes–from wide-angle shots such as spectacular landscapes, majestic architectural images and group shots in small spaces to telephoto images such as tightly cropped snapshots taken from a distance. Combined with an Intelligent Zoom function, the camera provides tighter zoom on subjects and extends the zoom to approximately *6.8 times without compromising image quality.

Auto Picture mode automatically selects the appropriate shooting mode

The Optio RS***0 features Pentax-original Auto Picture mode to automatically select the most appropriate shooting mode for a given subject or scene by accurately assessing various photographic conditions affecting the subject. This user-friendly mode instantly and unfailingly selects one of the *5 shooting modes (including Blue Sky and Sunset) and optimizes various camera settings such as sensitivity and shutter speed for optimal results with minimal effort.

High-quality HD movie recording

The Optio RS***0 captures beautiful, high-definition movie clips (***0 x **0 pixels)* and features Movie SR (Shake Reduction) mode to automatically compensate for camera shake during movie shooting.

* When the Optio RS***0′s AV output terminal is used, movie clips are output as normal-image-size data. If the user wishes to play back movie clips at high-definition-TV proportions (***0 x **0 pixels), the data must be transferred to a personal computer for playback. When movie shooting, the angle of view becomes narrower than normal shooting.

Additional features

–A new Digital Blur Removal function to effectively compensate for camera shake during still-image shooting –Digital Panorama mode to automatically stitch a single panoramic picture from as many as three images –Green mode to dramatically simplify camera operation with a fixed set of shooting settings. –Frame Composite function (with three frames stored in the camera) to shoot or compose images with decorative photo frames –Burst shooting at a speed of *6 images (fixed at **0 x **0 pixels) in two -Auto-tracking AF mode to keep constant focus on a moving subject –Image viewing, editing and filing software package compatible with latest operating systems such as:

Windows 7 and Mac OS X*0.6:

MediaImpression 3.0 for Pentax (Windows version) and

MediaImpression 2.1 for Pentax (Macintosh version)