PENTAX Optio RS1000 "Chameleon" Digital Compact Camera
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.
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
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.| 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 |

