A compact digital camera with a powerful 5X zoom, the Optio M50 sports a stylish design and an affordable price. You are assured high resolution images with its 8.0 megapixel CCD and review your images easily with a 2.5 inch wide view LCD. This all-around Optio also offers Smile Capture and Face Recognition to capture perfect portrait0s.

Movie Feature – Captures video with audio at up to 640 x 480 resolution. Also features a movie shake reduction mode (Movie SR).

Major Features

  1. 5X optical zoom lens

    Inside a palm-sized compact body, the Optio M50 is newly equipped with a 5X optical zoom lens. With this lens, an angle of view equivalent to those of an approximately 36 to 180 mm lens in 35 mm format can be obtained, thus permitting the user to take zooming photographs for landscapes, memorial photographs, portraits etc. In addition, using this together with the digital zoom function ( approx. 1X to 5.1X ) makes photography with a maximum zoom equivalent to 25.5X possible.
  2. ”Face Recognition AF & AE” function that is convenient when photographing portraits

    The Optio M50 is equipped with the ”Face Recognition AF&AE” function that automatically detects and focuses on faces, and sets the optimum exposure. In addition, ”Smile Capture” function that distinguishes smiles and automatically takes photographs, and other application functions are also available.
  3. Evolved Auto Picture mode automatically determines the best settings for the shooting conditions

    The Auto Picture mode, which is unique to PENTAX, lets the camera automatically determines the shooting conditions and chooses condition for Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, Normal, and newly adopted Flower and Sports mode.
  4. Digital SR ( Shake Reduction )

    Digital SR ( Shake Reduction ) mode reduces camera shakes and blurring of the subjects when photographing still images. The sensitivity is adjusted automatically, to as high as the ultrahigh sensitivity of ISO 6400, to match the brightness of the subjects. This enables for photography with fast shutter speeds, and images with less blurs can be obtained.
  5. Easily viewable 2.5-inch LCD monitor with a wide viewing angle

    Even with a compact body, the Optio M50 features a large, 2.5-inch LCD monitor with an increased approximately 230,000 dots. Not only is it easy to check the screen during photography and playback, it is also easy to view the menu display. The monitor also enables users to operate the camera and make settings smoothly. Since the screen has a wide viewing angle of approximately 170 degrees from all directions, it is easy to confirm images even when looking at the screen diagonally.
  6. High-quality images

    Thanks to a high definition of approximately 8.0 effective megapixels and high-performance PENTAX lens, the Optio M50 realizes clear images with high quality. Even when images are enlarged, it is possible to print detailed areas clearly.
  7. Other features
    1. Movie recording function with shake reduction enabling high image quality rivaling camcorders
    2. Mode palette provides quick access to 16 shooting conditions and 15 playback mode
    3. Panorama mode for composing photographs into 1 panoramic picture
    4. Auto-Macro allows for close-up photography as near as 10cm without changing the normal focusing mode
    5. Auto-tracking AF continuously focusing on a moving subject
    6. Date imprint function for easy image categorizing
    7. Approximately 51.1MB of built-in memory
    8. FotoNation's red-eye compensation function for flash shots
    9. Includes the ACDSee for PENTAX 3.0 image viewer/image management software that supports Windows Vista™
    10. Support PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III