PENTAX Bows Two New Optio Digital Cameras

PENTAX just announced two new Optio digital cameras. The Optio A40 is Pentax’s first ever 12 megapixel digital camera and features three types of Shake Reduction including mechanical, digital and movie. Each version helps deliver blur-free shots in action photography or in low light conditions. The Optio A model also features the newest Face Recognition technology including a Natural Skin Tone mode and a Half-length Portrait mode, which automatically takes a head and shoulder photograph of subjects.

Additional Features

• Users can freely choose Shutter-Priority AE mode and Manual Exposure mode, depending on the effect they are aiming to achieve
  
• An Intelligent Zoom function enables images to be magnified, while maintaining the image quality of optical zoom
  
• Auto Picture mode automatically determines the best settings for the shooting conditions
  
• Mode palette provides quick access of 18 shooting modes and 15 playback modes
• Approximately 21.0 MB of built-in-memory
  
• Compatible with SD memory cards and SDHC memory cards
• FotoNation's red eye compensation function for flash shots
  
• Includes the ACDSee for PENTAX 3.0 image viewer/image management software that support Windows Vista™
  
• Supports PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III

 The Optio A40 will ship in October 2007 for $299.95.

The second from PENTAX is the 8 megapixel Optio V10, an ultra-slim compact digital cam with a 3.0 inch LCD monitor, a 3X optical zoom and easy operations in a stylish, affordable body.

Additional Features

• Mode palette provides quick access to 16 shooting modes and 13 playback modes
  
• Recording movies with Movie SR (Shake Reduction) function can deliver high quality images rivaling camcorders
  
• Auto-Macro mode allows close-up photography as near as 3.9 inches (10cm) while in the normal focusing mode
  
• Auto-tracking AF continuously focusing on a moving subject
  
• Date imprint function for easy image categorizing
  
• Calendar Display function allows image retrieval based on the capture date
  
• Approximately 52.1MB of built in memory
• FotoNation's red-eye correction function for flash shots
• Includes the ACDSee for PENTAX 3.0 image viewer/image management software that support Windows Vista™
  
• Supports PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III

 The Optio V10 will ship in November for $249.95.

For more information visit www.pentaximaging.com.