10.0 effective megapixels image quality
The Optio A20 produces clear, high quality images with 10.0 effective megapixels. The superb level of resolution makes it possible to produce prints with crisp detail even when the photo is enlarged to A3 size. The Optio A20 image sensor is a large 1/1.8 inch CCD with a wide light sensitive area, which realizes superior tone reproduction, fine textures, and greater noise reduction.

High performance smc Pentax zoom lens
The Optio A20 is equipped with a high quality smc Pentax zoom lens, which is renowned for its clarity and high contrast image performance. The lens configuration, with seven elements in five groups including three aspherical elements, effectively corrects for spherical aberration. The lenses are coated using a Pentax developed technique to reduce ghosting and flare.

Three Anti Shake functions featured:

• SR (Shake Reduction): The SR (Shake Reduction) mechanism, developed by Pentax, features two gyro sensors that detect the amount of shake and an image sensor (CCD) that moves both horizontally and vertically to reduce the camera shake. The SR mechanism effectively prevents shake at the instant that the shutter is clicked to take a photograph.
• Blur Reduction mode: In this mode, the camera automatically adjusts the sensitivity to as high as ISO 1600 according to the brightness of the subject. The higher sensitivities permit faster shutter speeds that reduce not only camera shake but also the blurring caused by moving subjects.
• Movie Anti Shake Function: Camera shake while taking a movie can also be corrected automatically by software, thanks to an electronic, movie anti shake function.

New Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
A new ASIC supplies the Optio A20 with dramatically more image processing power. With this ASIC high speed processing capability, the Optio A20 attains a high level of tone reproduction and color correction based on enormous amounts of actual photo data.

Face Recognition AF and AE for beautiful one step portraits
The Optio A20 features the new Face Recognition AF and AE function, which helps ensure bright, beautiful photos of people with perfectly focused faces free of shadows caused by exposing for the background or for the colors of clothing. This useful function automatically detects the position of the subject anywhere in the photo frame and then adjusts the focus and optimizes the exposure for the detected position.

Auto tracking AF continuously focuses on a moving subject
The Optio A20's auto tracking AF feature continuously focuses on subjects such as kids and pets that move around unpredictably. Since the focus frame automatically follows the movement of the subject inside the photo frame, you can be sure to capture those instantaneous photo opportunities.

High quality movies with an anti shake function
The Optio A20 smoothly captures movies at 30 fps (frames per second) at sizes up to 640 x 480 pixels with image quality rivaling camcorders. Since it employs the DivX¨ (MPEG 4 compliant) movie format, the Optio A20 can record longer, high quality movies.

Auto Picture mode automatically determines the best settings for the shooting conditions
The Auto Picture mode lets the camera automatically determine the shooting conditions for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, and Program modes and choose the optimum settings for each subject. This Pentax original function makes photography a lot easier for users since it eliminates the necessity of making a number of individual settings. A wide range of exposure setting mode in Programmed Exposure mode, the camera automatically determines the shutter speed and aperture. The camera also includes Shutter Priority AE mode and Manual Exposure mode, which the user can set freely depending on the effect they are aiming to achieve.

Compact and lightweight body
Despite incorporating a large CCD and the SR system, we managed to create a slimmer and lighter body by using our unique Sliding Lens system together with high density mounting technology.

Supports the SDHC memory card for greater storage of high quality images and longer movies
The Optio A20 supports two removable storage media: the conventional SD memory cards and the new SDHC memory cards.

Red eye correction available after shooting
The Optio A20 comes with FotoNation's red eye correction function, which can correct red eye problems, a side effect of flash photography, after the photo is taken. With the ability to manually select the area to correct, this function allows for more precise correction of red eye photos.

Additional Features

• Calendar Display function allows image retrieval based on the capture date
• Easy image search and arrangement on a PC using a Date Folder function
• Green Mode enables the use of fixed, automatic settings when taking a photograph
• Digital zooming provides up to 4x magnification
• Approximately 22MB of built in memory
• Pan focus function for effortless snapshots
• ACDSee for Pentax image viewer/image management software
• USB 2.0 (hi speed) compatible
• Supports PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III

What's in the Box
Digital camera, rechargeable lithium ion battery, battery charger, USB cable, AV cable, wrist strap, CD ROM with software and drivers, printed operation manual