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The full-featured, slim and sleek Olympus SZ-12, a compact superzoom camera, offers a powerful 24x optical wide-angle zoom lens (25-600mm equivalent in 35mm photography) and two forms of image stabilization to help deliver the clearest results possible. Whether you're traveling, at a family function, or on the sideline of a sporting event, the powerful SZ-12 gives you the flexibility to zoom right in and shoot brilliant close-ups without sacrificing versatility and image quality. With remarkable magnification power in combination with 14-megapixel resolution, the super-slim SZ-12 is packed with state-of-the-art Olympus technology that delivers excellent image quality. A new, retro-chic "smart grip" at the front of the camera combined with built-in Dual Image Stabilization, helps cut out blur caused by imperceptible camera shake, allowing you to zoom right in for expressive close-ups and vivid HD 720p video.

High-speed, seven-frames-per-second (7 fps) sequential shooting gives you the power to capture a dynamic series of images of fast-moving subjects. For more composed shooting, the Olympus SZ-12's Telephoto Macro captures all the rich detail of small subjects like flowers from inches away. The powerful zoom brings you up close to whimsical subjects like butterflies from a safe distance, so you don't scare them. Ten Magic Art Filters power your creativity by adding a whole range of special effects to your images directly in the camera. The Olympus SZ-12 offers the new Reflection magic filter takes the image and duplicates it across a horizontal or vertical plane of symmetry creating powerful illusions. Easily frame and review your images on the large, 3-inch LCD display (460,000 dots) and share them wirelessly throughout your social networks or on your computer via an optional Eye-Fi Card -- or in all the glory of High-Definition using an optional HDMI cable on a big-screen HDTV.

Olympus SZ-12 Super Zoom Key Features

Olympus SZ-12 Super Zoom Digital Camera Supplied Accessories:

• Li-50B Li-ion Rechargeable Battery
• F-2AC In-Camera Battery Charger
• USB Cable
• Audio/Video Cable
• Strap
• Instruction Manual and OLYMPUS [ib] software CD
• Quick Start Guide
• Warranty Card

Designed-to-be-Digital Optics - 24x Optical Zoom Wide-Angle Lens, 96x Total Seamless Zoom

Optical precision is the foundation for creating quality images. First to introduce the Super Zoom category in 2000, Olympus once again delivers a designed-to-be-digital optical zoom lens to bring the action closer in an ergonomic body that's easy to handle. The SZ-12 is an extremely compact camera featuring a 24x wide-angle optical-zoom lens. The f3.0 - f6.9 lens provides the equivalent of 25 - 600mm focal length in 35mm photography. Users can get close to the action with the compact 24x super telephoto zoom and at the same time, the wide-angle (25mm) lens captures more in each frame. Its super-macro capabilities capture the subtlest details. The compact lens construction uses aspherical lens elements to deliver edge-to-edge sharpness and clarity. Whether it is capturing fast-action sports or everyday snapshots, this sturdy compact body with a wide-angle and telephoto lens provides the versatility to get the job done.

Dual Image Stabilization

The SZ-12 Super Zoom features an advanced combination of mechanical CCD-shift Image Stabilization and Digital Image Stabilization. CCD-shift Image Stabilization uses built-in electro-gyro sensors to record camera movement and adjust the CCD image sensor. This ensures that light remains centered on the image sensor to maintain image clarity despite a slight movement on the part of the photographer. Digital Image Stabilization Mode boosts ISO sensitivity and shutter speed so that images remain crisp and clear -- free from the blur caused by moving subjects. The combination of the two Image Stabilization Technologies ensures the best image clarity in virtually any shooting environment. Dual Image Stabilization technology enables users to take crisp, clear pictures in virtually any shooting situation -- adjusting for camera shake and a moving subject.

3D Photo Mode

Now you can add even more dimension to your photographs by shooting dynamic 3D photos in any mode from macro to landscape, and even under water. Recreate a sense of depth like that of the original scene. Catch a shot of your friends jumping into the water and view it in 3D. Simply select the 3D Photo Mode on your SZ-12, release the shutter for your first shot, and slowly pan until the camera automatically takes a second image from a slightly different perspective. The 3D data is processed in-camera resulting in an .MPO file, the universal industry 3D format for easy display on 3D televisions or laptops.

Eye-Fi Card Compatibility

Ready to upload and share images of your adventures live, as they happen? The SZ-12 is compatible with Eye-Fi SD cards (sold separately) adding Wi-Fi capability to the camera, enabling you to automatically upload images to your computer as you take them. Share your pictures of sandcastles right from the beach by uploading your shots immediately.

Large 3-inch High-Resolution LCD

The Olympus SZ-12 boasts a bright, high-resolution 3.0-inch LCD monitor with 460,000 pixels, which is ideal for viewing, composing and sharing all your favorite images and HD videos.

14 Megapixel CCD (Effective)

The 14.0-megapixel CCD image sensor delivers superior image quality capturing the most subtle details that are consistently sharp and vivid, even in large-format prints or when the image is cropped.

One-Touch 720p HD Movie and HDMI Control

The SZ-12 shoots gorgeous 720p HD videos, so you'll never miss the chance to capture the scene. Activating HD recording is incredibly easy with a dedicated one-touch button, and playback is also a breeze. Now, you'll be the hit of the party or any family function when you proudly display your brilliant images and videos on high-definition televisions. Simply connect the camera to an HDTV with an HDMI™ cable, which can be purchased separately at any consumer electronics store. With HDMI Control, you can use your HDTV's remote to control playback functions and navigate the camera's menus from the comfort of your favorite couch. With One-Touch HD Movie you can record widescreen, crystal clear HD movies (720p) right from your camera.

AF Tracking

AF Tracking technology locks your subject in focus, and continuously adjusts focus and brightness whether you or your subject are moving. This mode can remember the subject if it moves out of the frame. This enables you to keep fast-moving and unpredictable subjects like small children in focus for the perfect shot. There's even a specially designed AF Tracking Pet Mode for animal lovers.

Advanced Face Detection Auto Focus and Auto Exposure

Face Detection Technology tracks up to 16 faces within the frame and automatically focuses (Face Detection AF) and optimizes exposure (Face Detection AE) for sharp, brilliant portrait pictures. Even if your subjects are moving, the camera continuously tracks your subjects' faces without having to press the shutter button.

TruePic III+ Image Processor

Whether you are globetrotting or attending a sporting event, the Olympus SZ-12 offers a 14-megapixel sensor, enabling consumers to achieve consistently sharp and vivid images when producing large-format prints or cropping/enlarging a portion of a photograph. Olympus developed its exclusive TruePic III+ Image Processor for the demanding performance of DSLRs and has migrated the technology to the S-series cameras for amazing image quality. Olympus' enhanced TruePic III+ Image Processor produces crystal clear photos using all the pixel information for each photo to deliver exceptional clarity with more accurate colors, true-to-life flesh tones and faster processing speeds. TruePic III+ also captures crisp, clear photos at high ISO settings, which are traditionally associated with increasing noise or producing grainy photos.

32 Selectable Shooting Modes Including 16 Scene Preset Modes and 10 Creative Art Filters

With 32 shooting modes including Intelligent Auto and pre-programmed scene modes, such as Beach & Snow, Night Scene, Sunset, and Fireworks, the SZ-12 makes it easy to capture beautiful images in a variety of lighting and shooting situations. Get the best result in any situation with advanced options -- landscape, portrait, indoor, sunset and more.

Beauty Mode

Beauty mode touches up the appearance of subjects even while the shot is being taken. This feature recognises faces and automatically makes skin on the face and adjacent areas appear smoother, brighter and more youthful. It enables you to soften shadows and smooth wrinkles or blemishes on your subject's face -- all in the camera and as you capture the image. Additionally, subtle edits can be made post-capture using the Beauty Fix mode. Choose Clear Skin to smooth a person's complexion, Dramatic Eye to slightly emphasize the eyes, and Sparkle Eye to brighten and enhance the contrast of the iris and pupils. You can also apply all three edits at once.

Shadow Adjustment Technology

Shooting outdoors in bright daylight can be tricky because of the extreme contrast between dark shadowed areas and bright sunlight areas -- while the human eye is capable of detecting the nuances between dark and light and all the details in between, image sensors traditionally have not been quite as sensitive. The SZ-12 Super Zoom addresses this challenge head-on with Shadow Adjustment Technology, which compensates for extreme contrast where the shadow areas are underexposed and lack visible detail. With this technology, users can preview and capture images that have the same contrast as seen with the naked eye. Combined with Face Detection Auto Focus and Auto Exposure, the SZ-12 Super Zoom captures smiles in shadows without getting a dark image in difficult lighting such as in backlight situations. The technology can also be turned off for any shooting situation where shadows are a key element of a photograph's drama.

Intelligent Auto Mode

Taking a moonlit stroll on the beach? With the Intelligent Auto Mode in Olympus cameras your camera knows and it automatically identifies what you are shooting (i.e., Portrait, Night + Portrait, Landscape, Macro and Sports) and adjusts the camera's settings to capture the best quality results. First-time users can jump into this quick and hassle-free feature that does the thinking for them and produces incredible images.

In-Camera Magic Art Filters

In-camera Creative Filters recently debuted on Olympus E-System DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras. Similar in-camera Magic Art Filters have been developed for compact Olympus cameras such as the SZ-12. Magic Art Filters enable the user to enhance and customize images as they're being captured. This translates into more fun and flexibility as customization is no longer limited to using expensive and time-consuming computer software. The Magic Art Filters include:

• Pop Art: Enhance and saturate colors to create vivid, high-impact pictures that express the joyful, lighthearted feeling of the Pop Art style of the 1960s
• Pin Hole: Reduce the peripheral brightness of an image as though it were shot through a pin hole, connecting the viewer intimately with the subject at the center
• Fish-Eye: Emulate the wide-angle of a fish-eye lens by taking extremely wide, hemispherical images and magnifying the center of the frame.
• Drawing: Turn your image into a sketch outline for children to color.
• Soft Focus: Creates a soft tone that gives pictures an ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere. It renders pictures as though they were veiled in heavenly light, without obscuring details such as hair or flower petals.
• Punk: Creates a two-tone image with a classic punk rock feel
• Watercolor: Transforms images into frame-worthy art with a finish like that of watercolor paintings
• Sparkle: Adds a twinkle to your photos
• Reflection: Creates a spectacular horizontal reflection of the real image similar to a mirror image created by still water.
• Miniature: Gives images a miniature model feel by narrowing the depth of field and enhancing color and contrast.

59 MB Available Built-in Internal Memory

You can capture images even when no media card is in the camera. The SZ-12 comes with 59 MB of internal memory

SD / SDHC / SDXC Memory Card Compatible

The Olympus SZ-12 Super Zoom digital compact camera offers SD / SDHC / SDXC Memory Card capability for up to 64 gigabytes of capacity.

OLYMPUS [ib] Software

The SZ-12 comes with OLYMPUS [ib] software. The software includes photography workflow, browsing, editing and unique photo organizing functions. You can organize your photos by person with automatic face recognition technology, by location with a Geotagging function or by event. You can easily view photos on an HDTV or on the camera's LCD with the Photo Surfing or Slideshow functions. The name [ib] stands for image bridging, image browsing and image brightening. The software is available for Windows operating systems only.

Easy Direct Print Capability

The power of PictBridge technology enables photos to be printed directly from the camera to any PictBridge-enabled printer, such as the Olympus P-11 Digital Photo Printer, without using a computer. And the new one-touch printing button makes printing a single-step process. Printing and sharing images has never been easier!

Auto-Connect USB 2.0 High Speed

Transferring images to the computer has never been easier with the Auto-Connect USB 2.0 that does not require software drivers (for most computers/operating systems) for hassle-free and high-speed image downloads.

Histogram Function

The SZ-12 Super Zoom's Histogram function provides real-time access to exposure information so users can confirm exposure before snapping the picture. A histogram displayed on the LCD makes detection of over- and under-exposed areas simple with red and blue highlighting so users can make adjustments.

Built-in Multi-Mode Flash

The SZ-12 Super Zoom camera has a built-in flash that offers settings to provide a wide range of options.

• Auto Flash fires automatically in low light or back-light, to help ensure the illumination is appropriate.
• Red-Eye Reduction Flash Mode emits a series of pre-flashes right before the shutter snaps, allowing the subject's eyes to adjust to the light level of the flash -- reducing the red-eye effect.
• Fill-In Flash Mode (forced on) adds light to eliminate shadows, for a more natural look in photos when your subject is in both bright light and dark shadow.
• Flash Off Mode is available when flash photography is not permitted or to allow for long exposures for shots like sunsets and night scenes.

In-Camera Panorama Mode

In-camera panorama mode captures three images and stitches them together to create one amazing panoramic picture. Simply press the shutter button and slowly pan across a panoramic scene. The second and third images will be captured automatically and stitched together with the first image -- resulting in one seamless panorama-size picture. To create the ultimate panoramic picture, you can use the Olympus [ib] Software to stitch up to 10 images together.

Digital ESP Multi-Pattern and Spot Metering

Multi-Point Metering enables separate points in the image area to be averaged for proper exposures in the most difficult lighting conditions.

In-Camera Help Guide

The In-Camera Help Guide displays a brief description of camera settings and features on the LCD enabling consumers to easily adjust ISO and white balance settings using the Program Auto mode. Additionally, Exposure Compensation enables users to preview and select various exposure effects on a live, multi-frame window on the LCD before snapping the shot. This smart feature enables users to see precisely what the image will look like when adjustments are made, ensuring they are capturing the exact image desired. Program Auto and Exposure Compensation are great modes that enable novice users to get results like the pros while learning about the effects of different photography techniques. Menus are available in various languages for convenient operation.

Olympus SZ-12 Super Zoom Specifications

CCD Imager:

14.0 megapixel effective, 1/2.3" (1.1cm) CCD

Lens:

4.5 - 108.0 mm (25mm - 600mm equivalent in 35mm photography), 11 lenses in 10 groups, 3 aspherical lenses, 3 ED glass lenses

Zoom:

24x Optical Zoom + 4x Digital Zoom (Seamless to 96x)

Aperture Range:

f3.0-8.7 (W) / f6.9-20 (T)

LCD:

3.0" (7.6cm) LCD, approx. 460,000 pixels, ±2 Steps Brightness Adjustment

Viewfinder

N/A

Focusing System:

CCD Contrast detection

Focusing Ranges (from lens surface):

Normal Mode: (Wide) 3.9" - infinity (10cm - infinity)
(Tele) 15.7" - infinity (40cm - infinity)
Macro Mode: (Wide) 3.9" - infinity (10cm - infinity)
(Tele) 15.7" - infinity (40cm - infinity)
Super Macro Mode: 1.18" - infinity (3cm - infinity)

Focus Modes:

iESP Auto, Spot AF, Face Detection AF, AF Tracking

Shutter Speeds:

1/1700 sec. - 1/4 sec. (up to 4 sec. in Night Scene Mode)

ISO:

Auto, High ISO Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 (SOS: Standard Output Sensitivity)

Metering Modes:

Digital ESP Metering, Spot Metering

Exposure Compensation:

±2 EV steps in 1/3 EV steps

White Balance System:

Auto, Pre-set (Overcast, Daylight, Tungsten, and Fluorescent 1)

Recording Modes:

Still image: JPEG
Movie: MP4

Adjustable Resolutions:

14MP (4,288 x 3216)
8MP (3,264 x 2,448)
5MP (2,560 x 1,920)
3MP (2,048 x 1,536)
2MP (1,600 x 1,200)
1MP (1,280 x 960)
VGA (640 x 480)
16:9 L (4,288 x 2,416)
16:9 S (1,920 x 1,080)

Motion Blur Suppression

Dual Image Stabilization

Image Processing:

TruePic™ III+ Image Processor

Shooting Modes:

32 Shooting Modes: Intelligent Auto, Program Auto, Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization, Panorama, Magic Filter (Pop Art, Pinhole, Fisheye, Drawing, Soft Focus, Punk, Sparkle, Watercolor, Reflection, Miniature), Scene Presets (Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Night & Portrait, Sport, Beauty, Indoor, Candle, Sunset, Fireworks, Pet (Cat), Pet(Dog), Cuisine, Documents, Beach & Snow, Self Portrait), Movie, 3D Photo

Panorama

In-Camera Panorama, PC Panorama (Up to 10 frames automatically stitchable with ib software)

Continuous Shooting

Approx. 10 frames per second / 43 images (3MP)
7.6 frames per second / 42 images (5MP)
0.89 frames per second / 18 images (14MP)

Movie Mode:

MP4 720p (1280 x 720), VGA (640 x 480), QVGA (320 x 240)

Noise Reduction:

Set automatically at shutter speeds of 0.5 seconds or longer in specific scene modes (Night Scene, Night + Portrait, Candle, Sunset, Fire Works)

Image Playback:

Still Image: Single, Index Display (4x3, 6x5)), Up to 10x Enlargement, Slideshow, Event, Photo Surfing, Rotation, Protection, Histogram
Movie: Normal, Fast-Forward, Reverse, Frame-by-Frame, Voice Playback

Playback Edit Effects:

Still Image: Beauty Fix, Resize, Cropping, Saturation

Flash:

Built-in Flash

Built-in Flash Modes:

Auto (for low light and back lit conditions), Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-in, Off

Flash Working Range:

Wide: 3.3 ft (1.0 m) - 23.9 ft (7.3 m) at ISO 1000
Tele: 1.6 ft (0.5 m) - 10.5 ft (3.2 m) at ISO 1000

Selftimer:

12 / 2 seconds / Pet auto-shutter

Memory:

59 MB internal memory

Removable Media Card:

SD/SDHC/SDXC Card

Outer Connectors:

Multi-Terminal: USB Connector, Audio/Video Output
HDMI Type D

Auto-Connect USB:

USB 2.0 Full Speed (USB Mass Storage)

System Requirements:

Auto-connect USB: Windows 2000/XP/VISTA/7 with USB port, Mac OS X 10.3 or later with USB port
Software: Windows 2000PRO/XP/VISTA/7, Mac OS X v10.3 - 10.5

Operating Environment:

Operation: 32º - 104ºF (0º - 40ºC), 30 - 90% humidity
Storage: -4º - 140ºF (-20º - 60ºC), 10 - 90% humidity

Power Supply:

Li-ion Rechargeable Battery (LI-50B)

Size (W x H x D):

Approx. 4.2" x 2.7" x 1.6" (106.5mm x 68.7mm x 39.5mm)

Weight:

7.6 oz. (216g) without batteries and media card

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