2 March 2006
The new Optio T10 from Pentax features an extra-large 3.0-inch, high-definition LCD monitor for easy viewing and a touch screen interface that enables you to operate the camera by simply touching icons on the LCD monitor, as well as customising and editing images on the go.
Packing 6.0 megapixel performance and a 3x optical zoom lens, the camera also boasts a stylish, minimalist design thanks to its innovative and intuitive touch screen technology. This offers the user better control, both in terms of image editing and in navigating through the camera's functions.
The Optio T10 is distinguished by an extra-large 3.0-inch, high-definition LCD monitor for easy viewing and a touch-display control system that allows you to program the camera by simply touching icons on the panel as well as customize images directly on the panel. Added to this the touch screen interface allows the user to crop, trim and resize images, as well as remove 'red eye' and adding filter effects to the pictures. The stylus allows the user to draw on pictures and add text making the T10 a simple, yet powerful, camera to use. The T10 has a high-grade aluminium alloy body making this one of the most stylish cameras on the market.
Doing away with the need for multiple buttons and dials, the T10 offers has a distinctive look with an exterior design only needing to accommodate its optical lens and 3.0-inch screen.
Major Features
1. Easy-to-view 3.0-inch oversized LCD monitor The Optio T10 has largest digital-camera LCD monitor in the Pentax range with approximately 230,000 pixels for exceptional clarity and definition. Composing pictures and adjusting settings is easier than ever thanks to the large icons and text. Since the monitor sports a wide viewing field, the screen is just as clear and bright when viewed from an angle as when viewed straight on. This feature is useful when composing shots at low or high angles or when showing off photos to a group of people.
2. Touch display makes operations simple and enjoyable The Optio T10's touch display allows you to select and confirm functions by directly touching the LCD screen. The simplicity of touching and selecting the icon of the function you want from the displayed menu takes the stress out of setting up the camera.
3. Excellent image quality
The 6.0 effective megapixel CCD delivers images with exceptional definition. The camera boasts the well-regarded smc PENTAX lens, which renders clear, high-contrast images, while the unique lens coating cuts out 'ghosting'. The Optio T10's superb image processing technology produces vivid colours and creates smooth tonal expressions at all brightness levels.
4. My Drawing mode for easy picture design The Optio T10 comes with a My Drawing mode, which lets you enjoy customising your shots. Using the included stylus pen, you can create your own original picture by writing directly on the image shown on the monitor or adding a stored illustration with the Stamp function. The camera also has a function for storing your favourite photos as original stamps.
5. 19.5-mm body is the one of the thinnest in its class The camera is exceptionally slim due to utilising a 3x optical zoom lens that employs the PENTAX Sliding Lens System*1 together with a high-density mounting technology that creates an incredibly efficient layout with almost no spaces between components. The resulting 19.5-mm-wide body is the thinnest in its class even with the 3.0-inch extra-large LCD monitor.
*1: PENTAX's proprietary lens system that offsets the central lens groups from the optical axis and houses the lens elements in two separate stages in the lens barrel to reduce the overall lens length and thereby minimize the body depth.
6. 12 shooting modes cover a wide range of scenes The Optio T10 features 12 versatile shooting modes designed for conditions such as Portrait, Landscape, Flower, or Night Scene. Just choose the mode matching the subject scene and the camera automatically optimizes the exposure, white balance, and other settings. Selecting the mode is easy with the touch display and the Mode Palette, which displays the mode icons on the monitor.
7. High-quality movie function with long recording times The Optio T10 smoothly captures movies at 30 fps (frames per second) at sizes up to 640 * 480 pixels with image quality rivalling camcorders.
The camera includes a movie editing function that can save a frame from a recorded movie as a still image.
8. Exquisite design
We employed a high-grade aluminium alloy for the camera's exterior. The elegant design is finished off with the soft rounded contours of the top cover that accentuate the unit's thinness and project a friendly image.
9. Other features
(1) Approximately 12 MB of internal memory; supports external SD memory cards
(2) Frame composite function adds decorative frames to images when shooting or after shooting
(3) Function (Fn) mode permits you to store frequently used settings and recall them from the panel with a single touch (4) Pan-focus function for effortless snapshots (5) Approximately 4x digital zoom function (6) Convenient image-rotation display
(7) Includes the ACDSee for PENTAX image viewer/image management software
(8) FotoNation red-eye reduction function for flash photography (9) USB 2.0 (hi-speed) compatible
(10) DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III compatible
(11) PictBridge compatible