PENTAX Corporation is pleased to announce the PENTAX Optio V10, a standard-class compact digital camera that is equipped with a large 3.0-inch LCD monitor for enhanced usability and easy viewing. The Optio V10 is balanced with features such as 8.0 effective mega pixels, 3X optical zoom and easy operations, all in a slim, lightweight body.

By using an exclusive slim battery and making the circuit board smaller, it is possible to realise an ultra-slim body of just 19mm even though featuring large LCD monitor. High quality aluminium alloy is used for the outer cover, giving the camera a sophisticated texture.

The Optio V10 comes with a high resolution, a 3.0-inch LCD monitor with approximately 230,000 pixels that enable images and the text to be displayed largely and clearly. The LCD monitor has a wide viewing angle of 170 degrees from all directions, making it easy to confirm images, even when looking at the screen diagonally.

Digital SR (Shake Reduction) mode automatically adjusts sensitivity, to as high as the ultrahigh sensitivity of ISO 3200 according to the brightness of the subjects, and effectively reduces camera shakes and subject blurring when photographing still images. With fast shutter speeds, photography with reduced blurring is available.

The Face Recognition AF & AE function automatically detects and focuses on faces, regardless of where the people appear on the photo frame. So, it allows you to take beautiful photographs of people easily by letting the camera determine the focus and exposure.

The Auto Picture mode lets the camera automatically determine the shooting conditions for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, and Normal modes and chooses the optimum setting for each subject. This function eliminates the necessity of making a number of individual settings.

The Optio V10 features a 3X optical zoom lens with a focal range covering angles of view equivalent to those of a 36-108mm lens in a 35mm format, which is ideal for a broad spectrum of subjects from landscapes, through memorial photographs, to portraits. Such zooming power can also be combined with a 4X digital zoom to achieve a total of approximately 12X zoom capability.

The Optio V10’s 8.0 effective mega pixels and high performance PENTAX lens, which precisely captures images down the finest details, realizes to delivers high resolution photos that look sharp even at large magnifications.