The Pentax Optio A20 provides pinnacle of Pentax compact portrait digital photography with an ultra compact aluminum alloy body. Accompanied by a 10.0 megapixel CCD, a 3x optical zoom lens, constructed in Shake Reduction and Tracking AF, the Optio A20 offers a versatile manual shooting mode. Add to this, a 232,000 pixel 2.5 inch LCD and Movie mode MPEG 4 DivX (640 x 480) capture at 30fps and guaranteed video playback on all DivX certified devices. The convenient charging cradle recharges a Lithium ion battery on the camera.

10.0 effective megapixels image quality
The Optio A20 produces clear, high quality images with 10.0 effective megapixels. The superb volume of resolution makes it possible to produce prints with crisp detail regardless of whether the photo is enlarged to A3 size. The Optio A20 image sensor is often a large 1/1.8 inch CCD by using 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 provides you with a high quality smc Pentax contact, which can be renowned due to 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 working with a Pentax developed technique to reduce ghosting and flare.

Three Anti Shake functions featured:

• SR (Shake Reduction): The SR (Shake Reduction) mechanism, manufactured by Pentax, features two gyro sensors that detect as much shake and an image sensor (CCD) that moves both horizontally and vertically to help reduce the digital camera shake. The SR mechanism effectively prevents shake at the instant which your shutter is clicked to have an image.
• Blur Reduction mode: In such a mode, you automatically adjusts the sensitivity to as high as ISO 1600 according to the brightness belonging to the subject. The larger sensitivities permit faster shutter speeds that reduce but not only camera shake and also the blurring caused by moving subjects.
• Movie Anti Shake Function: Camera shake while having a movie is additionally 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. Utilizing this type of ASIC high speed processing capability, the Optio A20 attains a high amount of tone reproduction and color correction in accordance with large numbers of actual photo data.

Face Recognition AF and AE for beautiful one step portraits
The Optio A20 features the fresh new Face Recognition AF and AE function, which supports ensure bright, beautiful photos of an individual with perfectly focused faces without shadows because of exposing with the background or the colours of clothing. This useful function automatically detects the positioning of the subject anywhere in the photo frame after adjusts the target and optimizes the exposure with the detected position.

Auto tracking AF continuously targets on a moving subject
The Optio A20's auto tracking AF feature continuously is targeted on subjects which includes kids and pets that navigate unpredictably. Ever since the focus frame automatically follows the movement belonging to the subject from the photo frame, it is certain to capture those instantaneous photo opportunities.

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

Auto Picture mode automatically determines the right settings for those shooting conditions
The Auto Picture mode lets you automatically determine the shooting conditions for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, and Program modes and opt for optimum settings for every single subject. This Pentax original function makes photography much simpler for users considering that it eliminates the necessity of constructing quite a lot of individual settings. An array of exposure setting mode in Programmed Exposure mode, the camera automatically determines the shutter speed and aperture. Your camera also includes Shutter Priority AE mode and Manual Exposure mode, that your user can set freely with regards to the effect they can be wanting to achieve.

Compact and lightweight body
Despite incorporating a large CCD and also the SR system, we was able to come up with a slimmer and lighter body by employing our unique Sliding Lens system with high density mounting technology.

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

Red eye correction available after shooting
The Optio A20 comes along with FotoNation's red eye correction function, that may correct red eye problems, a complication of flash photography, right after the photo is taken. Internet site manually find the area to improve, this function consists of more precise correction of red eye photos.

Additional Features

• Calendar Display function allows image retrieval using the capture date
• Easy image search and arrangement for the PC running a Date Folder function
• Green Mode enables the effective use of fixed, automatic settings when looking for 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 inside Box
Digital camera, rechargeable lithium ion battery, wall charger, USB cable, AV cable, wrist strap, CD ROM with software and drivers, printed operation manual