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Succeeding the popular, award-winning Optio 550, the Optio 555 offers a quicker start-up time and reduced lag time between shots. This lightweight camera also offers a 5-megapixel resolution, 5x optical zoom, PictBridge direct printing, and movie mode with sound.

Optics and Resolution
With its 5-megapixel resolution, the Optio 555 delivers 2592 x 1944 pixel images for up to poster size enlargements. It also offers 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 1024 x 768, and 640 x 480 resolution modes. The high-precision SMC Pentax 5x optical zoom lens and employs advanced image processing technologies to capture powerful images. The ultra-compact zoom system allows the lens to fully retract in two stages and helps reduce the depth of the camera. It also features a 4x digital zoom, for a 20x total zoom.

Movie and Audio Modes
The Optio555 can also capture video with sound at 15 frames per second, with 320 x 240 recorded pixels. The videos can be as long as your memory card will allow. All clips are recorded in MOV format, allowing easy playback on a PC or Mac. The time-lapse movie feature runs a set of sequential recorded frames together as a short film. It offers a selection of X2, X5, X10, X20, X50, or X100 recording speeds and can be used to achieve effects such as construction scenes or clouds rushing across the sky.

The Optio555 can record audio to the full capacity of the external memory, allowing the Optio555 to be used as a regular voice recording device. With a 64 MB memory card, you can record up to 2 hours and 12 minutes of audio. It also allows you to record and attach up to 30 seconds of sound for each image.

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This camera can connect directly to select printers. Learn more about PictBridge.

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Pentax Optio 555 5MP Digital Camera w/ 5x Optical Zoom

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hello youtubers i'm justin and today on dash and run we're finally doing the review that i teased sometime back on my youtube channel of the pentax optio ls465 point and shoot camera now originally i was going to review this camera maybe a month or two back but the unit that i had in had a shutter release fault so i had to send it back to get a replacement model finally now i've got the replacement model so let's go and have a look at this camera okay so this is everything you get in the box you get a cd with some software on it a quick guide a manual a battery a strap a usb cable the charging adapter the face plates there's 10 all up and then you get the camera itself so next let's go and have a look at the camera itself okay so let's have a look at the camera itself and as you can see it's a very compact camera on the back you've got a nice 2.7 inch lcd screen which is quite nice and