Pentax Optio P70 arrives with a compact and stylish body with forward looking features. The sensor resolution is 12 mega pixels and the optical sensor type is CCD. The gross sensor resolution is 12,390,000 pixels and the optical sensor size is ½ .3”. The light sensitivity has ISO 6400, 3200, 1600, 800, 400, 200, 100 and 64.
The digital zoom is 6.3 x with maximum shutter speed of 1/1000 s and minimum shutter speed of 4 s. The exposure metering are spot, multi-segment and centre weighted. The exposure modes are program and automatic. The exposure compensation range is +/- EV range, in 1/3 EV steps.
The white balance has three modes like Custom, Automatic and Presets. The white balance presets have daylight, fluorescent, shade and tungsten light. The still image format is JPEG and digital video format is AVI. The lens system has Auto Focus TTL contrast detection and the lens type is zoom.
Pentax Optio P70 digital camera has a focal length of 4.9 to 19.6mm and equivalent 35 mm focal length is 27.5 to 110 mm. The focus adjustments have automatic and manual. It has 9 focus zones with minimum focus range is 399 mm and macro focus range is 100-500 mm. The lens aperture is F/2.6 to 5.8 with optical zoom of 4 x.
This Compact 12MP digital camera has built-in camera flash with flash modes like red eye reduction, flash off mode, fill in mode, auto mode and soft mode. The effective flash range has 0.2 to 4.6 m. The display type is LCD with TFT active matrix. The display size is 69 mm and the display resolution is 230, 000 pixels.
The built in memory for the PENTAX camera has 34 MB with the expansion slots having SD card. The connections include 1 USB and a Composite audio/video output. The additional features include self timer, self timer delay of 10 and 2 seconds. It has many shooting programs like food, blog, pet, text, fireworks, portrait mode, landscape etc.
The form factor is Ultra compact with a weight of 125 g. The battery type is Lithium ion and dimensions for this OPTIO P70 are 97mm in width, 53 mm in height and 20 mm in depth. The price range is from £159.00 - £168.28 and the warranty period is provided for one year.
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