Olympus SP-820UZ with 40x optical zoom lens

The new camera features a 22.4mm wide-angle to 896mm super-telephoto, high-magnification zoom lens, enabling an extremely wide range of shooting possibilities. The power of a large and heavy, sized super-telephoto lens is available on the compact body of the SP-820UZ, making it the perfect companion for keeping baggage light on a trip.

With the 40x optical zoom lens, users can capture intense and up-close photos of far away subjects with ease. With Super Resolution zoom, users can not only zoom up to 80x with virtually no image degradation, but in combination with the digital zoom it is even possible to photograph craters on the moon at 160x. With CMOS shift-type image stabilization and DUAL IS for high-sensitivity shooting, camera shake is effectively reduced during telephoto shooting. With 22.4mm wide-angle shooting, landscape photos and large group photos are a cinch. With just this one camera, users can enjoy shooting various scenes at just the right angles.

Simply pressing the button on the back of the camera allows super telephoto HD movie shooting, and Magic Filter also adds to the enjoyment of shooting movies on a digital camera.

Beauty Mode corrects the image so skin appears more smooth and beautiful, and Beauty Make-up mode corrects the image after shooting so that skin and eyes appear more beautiful. Thanks to its features of automatically detecting a pet’s face and capturing the shot at the best possible timing, this camera is useful at not only cover events but every day situations.

It is scheduled to go on sale from the end of September, 2012.