• A powerful 5x contact lens that combines with Digital Image Stabilization to ensure crisp, sharp images in any situation group shots of close friends, landscape vistas, or zooming in the loop from a sporting event;
• A large 2.5 inch LCD and Bright Capture Technology that produces composition, capture, and review of images to all of the lighting situations simple; and
• Olympus' exclusive TruePic Turbo Image Processor, which renders brilliant blue skies and accurate flesh tones, plus a 7.1 megapixel image sensor to form crisp, high quality, large format prints.

5x Optical Zoom
Olympus incorporates new lens technology inside the Stylus 740 that enables the 5x optical zoom lens (36mm 180mm, f3.3 f 5.0 equivalent in 35mm photography) to bring the action five times closer within a ultra slim body design. Olympus' lenses are known worldwide for producing sharp, vibrant, high quality images. This is done by a amount of key technologies, which includes Olympus' high refractive index lens elements and dual super aspherical lens elements, designed specifically for digital cameras.

Stylish, Ergonomic Design
The Stylus 740 is based on high performance, durability, and elegance. Besides the all weather construction that made the Stylus famous, the Stylus 740 comes with a metal body, clean lines, and smooth, rounded edges which make it comfortable to support and straightforward to control. In an ultra slim size that's only 1 inch thick 3.8 x 2.1 x 0.96 inches in all the camera fits snuggly in to a pocket and won't crowd a purse or briefcase.

Digital Image Stabilization
The Stylus 740 features a Digital Image Stabilization Mode, which boosts ISO sensitivity and shutter speed for capturing crisp, clear pictures free on the blur sometimes attributable to camera shake or moving subjects in any shooting situation.

All Weather Durability
Typically, water and photography really are a bad combination, limiting outdoor photography options when rain, sleet, or snow may take place. The compact, all weather Stylus 740 can brave the weather and go virtually anywhere. The metal body construction is durable and lightweight with rubber gaskets in the interior in order that rain, snow, and dust won't join the way of great photos.

Bright Capture Technology for simple Low Light Photography
There are when you should photograph subjects in low light and never have to utilize a flash for example, trying to capture the softness and warmth from a candlelit dinner or natural skin tones in subdued lighting. Olympus' revolutionary Bright Capture Technology makes it possible to clearly compose subjects around the LCD. With specific scene modes for high sensitivity settings (as long as ISO 2500) and rapid autofocus, even fast action photos can be captured under lower levels of light. Plus, Bright Capture Movie enables users to record the moments at night despite if the candles are blown out!

Bright Capture Technology in Action

7.1 Megapixel Image Sensor for Superior Image Quality
The 7.1 megapixel CCD image sensor contained in the Stylus 740 delivers high quality images that happens to be consistently sharp and vivid although the majority of printed in large formats up to poster sizes as large as 15 x 20 inches.

Large 2.5 Inch LCD
With a bright 2.5 inch LCD, the Stylus 740 easily doubles as being a portable digital photo album. The more expensive LCD makes it much simpler to look at images clearly both when shooting and sharing photos with friends and never having to download images to your computer.

TruePic Turbo for High Speed Response
Olympus' exclusive TruePic Turbo Image Processor enhances image quality for brilliant blue skies and accurate flesh tones and delivers faster overall processing speeds for rapid start up, shutter release, and playback. TruePic Turbo enables the Stylus 740 to capture information from all 7.1 million pixels with pixel "micro smoothing" that delivers clearer plus more ! color accurate photos. The fast start up of less than one second and nearly instant shutter release time ensures a high speed response therefore camera can be willing to take great pictures.

27 Selectable Shooting Modes
With 23 pre programmed scene modes, that include Beach and Snow, Available Light Portrait, Sunset, in addition to Under Water Macro, the Stylus 740 allows you to capture beautiful images in a number of lighting and shooting situations. Plus, with QuickTime Movie Mode, the digital camera may also record VGA quality videos with sound, limited only through measurements the inner memory or xD Picture Card from the camera.

Built In Help Guide
With the Help Guide function, each one of the camera's features is readily accessible even to novice users. Simply by holding down the Guide button on the back with the camera, users can access brief descriptions of each one in the camera's functions and scene modes. An improved auto set Shooting Guide provides users which has an explanation of which features make use of in a given situation and after that sets the digital camera automatically for your selected feature on the Guide.

One Touch Easy Print No Computer Necessary
The power of PictBridge technology enables photos to be printed directly from you to any PictBridge enabled printer without needing your working personal computer. The one touch "Print" button makes printing a single step process. Printing and sharing images has not been easier!

In Camera Editing
Users can edit photos anywhere quickly and completely by employing in camera editing features, as well as red eye fix, resizing, adding frames around images, inserting text that include "Happy Birthday," and adjusting color brightness and saturation.

Underwater Photography
The large 2.5 inch LCD, 5x optical zoom, compact bodily proportions, and three underwater scene modes make the Stylus 740 the best camera for taking along diving. The popular PT 034 underwater housing is made transparent polycarbonate with safety locked o ring seals, enabling the Stylus 740 to soundly travel up to 40 meters below the surface. Large red grips, a responsive shutter button, plus a precision zoom lever allow it to be uncomplicated to operate although wearing diving gloves. Plus, with Bright Capture Technology, images can be simply previewed over the LCD there are the darkest waters. (Underwater housing is absolutely not included must can be obtained separately.)

Olympus Master Software
Olympus Master Software provides epitome of digital imaging management. An intuitive user interface makes downloading images to a new computer quick and simple, and images are searchable by date or keyword on the Calendar View. Also, with one click editing tools, which includes red eye removal, images is touched up before printing or e mailing. Online support, templates, firmware upgrades, and various other user services are only a mouse click away.

What's in the Box
Olympus Stylus 740, wrist strap, WIN/Mac USB cable, audio video cable, LI 42B Li Ion rechargeable battery and charger, instruction manuals, warranty card, as well as a CD ROM with Olympus Master Software.