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PENTAX Optio RS1000 "Chameleon" Digital Compact Camera

Available Options

  • Optio RS1000 - Black – £99.99
    Discontinued

  • Optio RS1000 - White – £99.99
    Discontinued

  • Optio RS1000 - Black Glossy Kit – £114.99
    Discontinued

  • Optio RS1000 - White Glossy Kit – £114.99
    Discontinued

PENTAX Optio RS1000 "Chameleon" Digital Compact Camera
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Simply by setting a skin between PENTAX Optio RS1000 Chameleon's body and the removable translucent acrylic panel at front, you can easily change the camera’s appearance and make your camera unique! This model was discontinued March 2011. The replacement camera is the Optio RS1500 Chameleon and is now available from stock.

Product Detail

Introducing the PENTAX Optio RS1000 customisable, credit card size, digital camera with 14 megapixels, 3” LCD, 4x optical zoom lens, HD video function and simple, user-friendly operation.

Choose a theme, print it and make your camera unique!

Simply by setting a skin between PENTAX Chameleon's body and the removable translucent acrylic panel at front, you can easily change the camera’s appearance.

There is a website to visit where visitors can choose, download and print ready-made templates, create their own ‘skins’ and play fun games.

Visit www.pentax.co.uk/chameleon for more information.


Features

  • Exceptional Picture Quality – the high performance imaging engine combined with the 14 effective megapixels reproduces true-to-life colours and exceptional image resolution.
  • Large easy to view 3 inch LCD monitor – large detailed images and menus are easy to use and adjust.
  • Auto Picture Mode – automatically selects the most appropriate shooting mode for a given subject or scene. The 15 scene modes, automatically selected, optimise various camera settings including sensitivity and shutter speed to ensure the best results.
  • Automatic Face Detection – detection of up to 32 faces within the image field for sharp focus. Plus the ability to make faces smaller, an automatic shutter release to capture smiles and blink detection to avoid closed eyes.
  • High Quality HD proportioned movie recording – comes equipped with the sophisticated Movie Shake Reduction mode which automatically compensates camera shake during filming.
  • Digital filters – offers 9 different filters including toy camera, retro and sepia to add visual effects to images.

What's in the Box?

  • RS1000 Digital Camera
  • USB cable,
  • Li-ion rechargeable battery, D-LI108
  • battery charger kit,
  • strap,
  • software,
  • set of 3 alternative skins,
  • hex wrench (diameter: 1.6mm),
  • set of 5 pre-cut printable sheets of 10x15 photo paper),
  • tracing stencil

EAN Reference for Optio RS1000 - Black: 0027075172609

Recommended Accessories
Pentax pre-cut printable sheets of ILFORD photo paper for RS1500, and RS1000

Pentax pre-cut printable sheets of ILFORD photo paper for RS1500, and RS1000

Pentax pack of 10 pre-cut printable sheets of ILFORD 10x15 photo paper. Create your own inter-changeable skins for your compact Optio camera.
Specification

Type
Camera Type Digital zoom compact camera
Sensor
Type CCD
Size 1/2.33’’
Effective Pixels 14 megapixels
Still 14M (4288x3216), 10M (16:9) (4224x2376), 7M (3072x2304), 2M (16:9) (1920x1080), 640 (640x480 pixels)?
Movie HDTV (1280x720), 30/15 fps
VGA (640x480) 30/15 fps
QVGA (320x240), 30/15 fps
Colour Depth 12 bits x 3 colours
Sensitivity

Auto or Fixed (100-6400 ISO)

Lens
Focal Length PENTAX zoom lens 4.9 - 19.6mm f/3.5 (W) - 5.9 (T), equ. to 27.5-110mm in 35mm format
Digital Zoom Digital zoom: approx. 6.7x
Construction 6 elements in 5 groups (3 aspherical elements)
Focusing System
Type Contrast detection TTL Autofocus system
Functions Multi-AF 3-point zone, Spot AF, Auto-tracking AF (anticipating moving subject)
Focus Range (automatic) Normal: 0.4m - infinity (whole zoom area)
Macro: 15cm to 50cm (at wide setting), 25cm to 50cm (at medium magnification length)
Super Macro: 8cm to 25cm (at focal length of 5.8mm)
Screen
Type 3’’ (7.62cm diagonal) colour LCD monitor
Resolution 230.000 dots
Playback Slideshow, Image Rotation, Small Face filter, Natural Skin Tone, Digital Filter, Frame composite, Movie Edit, Red-Eye compensation, Resize, Cropping, Protect, Image copy, DPOF, Start-up image, Face close-up playback?
Shutter
Type Electronic shutter with automatic exposure program controlled
Speed 1/2000 to 1/4 sec. 4 sec max. (Night Scene mode)
Exposure system
Metering Multi-segment metering
Exposure Modes Auto Picture, Program, Natural Skin Tone, Night Scene Portrait, Night Scene, Movie, Landscape,Blue Sky, Sunset, Flower, Sport, Digital SR, Kids,Pet, Portrait, Food, Candlelight, Surf & Snow, Half-length portrait, Frame composite, Text, Digital Panorama, Green
Compensation +/- 2EV (1/3EV steps)
Flash
Type Automatic activation in low lighting conditions
Modes Flash-on, flash-off and soft flash modes. "Red-eye" reduction function
Effective Range Wide: approx. 0.15 - 4.8m (ISO Auto)
Tele: approx: 0.4m - 2.6m (ISO Auto)
Exposure Parameters
Modes One shot
Self timer (2 or 10 sec)
Continuous shooting
Burst Shooting (3.2 fps for up to 10 frames)
Multi-Burst (takes 16 VGA-size pictures at approx. 7.5 fps and creates a contact sheet)
Face Recognition Available functions: Face recognition, Smile capture
White Balance Auto, Daylight, Shade, Tungsten light, Fluorescent light, Manual setting
Digital Filter B&W, Sepia, Toy camera, Retro, Colour, Soft, Starburst, Fish-eye, Brightness
Movie
Recording HDTV (1280x720) at 30/15 fps
VGA (640x480 pixels) at 30/15 fps
QVGA (320x240 pixels) at 30/15 fps
Editing Video Editing available
Storage
Internal 18.4MB
External SD and SDHC memory cards
File Format JPEG (Exif 2.3), DCF 2.0, DPOF, PRINT Image Matching III
AVI (Motion JPEG)
Special Features
Features World time (75 cities, 28 time zones)
Digital Shake Reduction
Noise reduction when shutter speed is slower than 1/4 sec
DRE available: shadow adjustment
Language English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Thai, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Interface
Interface USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, PC/AV output (PAL/NTSC, mono)
Power
Source Rechargeable Li-ion D-LI108 battery? ? ? ?
Performance Approx. 210* shots and 260** min. in playback mode with Li-ion rechargeable battery.
*Recording capacity shows approximate number of shots recorded during CIPA-compliant testing.  Actual performance may vary depending on operating conditions.
**According to the result of PENTAX in-house testing?.
Dimensions
Height 56mm
Width 92mm
Depth 20.5mm
Weight 113 g unloaded, 130 g loaded and ready?
Compatibility
PC Windows XP SP2, VistaTM and 7
Mac Mac OS X 10.3.9 or above
Accessories
Included Software Arcsoft Media Impression 2.0 for PENTAX
Kit Content USB cable, Li-ion rechargeable battery, battery charger kit, strap, software, set of 3 alternative skins, hex wrench (diameter: 1.6mm), set of 5 pre-cut printable sheets of 10x15 photo paper), tracing stencil