RS1000
Pentax Optio RS1000, RZ10
Want to customize a camera? Then Pentax has something for you. It’s the Optio RS1000 digital compact camera, featuring a unique design which allows the user to customize the look of the camera’s exterior to reflect his or her style, or to suit a particular occasion.
Here’s the deal: The RS1000 has a body design which allows you to insert one of the included “skins” or a design of your choice, such as photographs, patterns or illustrations, between the body and the transparent front panel. So, yes, you can match the camera’s look to what you’re wearing or how your feeling.
There’s a removable transparent acrylic panel at the front of the main body frame. By setting a design sheet between the camera body and this panel, you can change the camera’s appearance. In addition to the alternative design sheets included in the camera box, you also can use the Tracing Stencil (included) to produce your own original designs using photos, posters, hand-drawn illustrations, etc., to create a one-of-the-kind original camera. If you choose not to personalize the look of your Optio RS1000, the camera’s front face has an attractive fine spindle finish.
The RS1000 features a 14-megapixel (effective) CCD, a 3-inch LCD monitor, a high-performance 4X optical zoom lens starting at 27.5mm (equivalent), and simple, user-friendly operation. It has a credit-card-sized body.
The Optio RS1000 will be available in Canada next month.
The camera features the new-generation Auto Picture mode, which automatically selects the most appropriate shooting mode for a given subject or scene by accurately assessing various photographic conditions. This mode instantly selects one of the 15 shooting modes (eight conventional modes, plus seven new modes including Blue Sky and Sunset) and optimizes various camera settings, including sensitivity and shutter speed, to assure the best results with minimal effort by the photographer.
The Optio RS1000 features Face Detection AF & AE, which instantly and accurately detects faces within the image field, then automatically optimizes focus and exposure settings. The camera also has Smile Capture which automatically releases the shutter the moment the camera detects the subject’s smile, and the Natural Skin mode that captures subjects with smooth, healthy skin tone.
Movies? Yup. High-definition-TV-quality movie clips (1280 x 720 pixels). It also comes equipped with the sophisticated Movie SR (Shake Reduction) mode, which automatically compensates camera shake during movie shooting with the help of exclusive software. You can also extract stills at 1280 x 720 resolution from HDTV movies in the camera.
The Optio RS1000 offers nine different digital filters, including Fish-Eye, Toy Camera, Retro and Sepia, to add various visual effects to recorded images without requiring a computer. The user can even apply multiple filters to a single image for more inventive visual effects.
Other features: Digital Blur Removal function to effectively compensate for camera shake during still-image shooting; Burst Shooting at a speed of 16 images in two seconds (fixed at 640 x 480 pixels); Auto-tracking AF mode to keep constant focus on a moving subject; Digital Panorama mode to effortlessly create a single panoramic picture from as many as three images; Green mode to automatically optimize exposure and sensitivity settings for a given subject or scene; Frame Composite function (with 20 frames stored in the camera) that lets you apply decorative photo frames when shooting the image or when playing back an image; high ISO performance up to 6400 ISO; Manual White Balance available to handle tricky mixed lighting situations.
The Optio RZ10 offers a 10X optical zoom (28-280mm equivalent); 14-megapixel CCD, dual shake reduction for effective reduction of camera shake; an upgraded Auto Picture mode (selects one of 16 shooting modes – eight conventional plus eight new modes including Blue Sky, Sunset and Pet – and optimizes various camera settings, including sensitivity and shutter speed, to assure the best results); HDTV-quality movie clips (1280 x 720 pixels) and Movie SR (Shake Reduction) mode, which automatically compensates camera shake during movie shooting; Face Detection AF & AE function, detecting up to 32 faces in the image field, optimizing focus and exposure settings in a mere 0.03 seconds; Pet mode, detecting three pre-registered faces of dogs and/or cats, but also capable of automatically detecting unregistered faces of dogs and cats.
Other features: 2.7-inch colour LCD monitor; Burst Shooting of up to 40 images at a maximum speed of 9.1 images per second; digital filters, including Fish-Eye, Toy Camera and Retro; Digital Panorama mode to create a single panoramic picture from as many as three images; high ISO performance up to 6400; Manual White Balance available.
It’s available in October as well.
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