PMA 2004: 8-megapixel Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom digital camera

Visitors of PMA 2004 that is now being held in Las Vegas, NV, have a chance to see Olympus´s new digital camera, C-8080. It seems that all digital camera manufacturers decided to add 8-megapixel solutions to their product series. C-8080 Wide Zoom key specs include the new image processor — TruePic TURBO — allowing for short ready time and a hot shoe.

Here are the camera specs taken from company´s North American website:

• 2/3" 8.31-megapiel CCD, 8 million effective pixels
• 15 elements in 13 groups, 7.13mm — 35.6 mm (28-140 mm in 35mm equiv.)
• 5x optical and 3x digital zoom
• F2.4-3.5 to F8.0
• 1/4000-16 s exposures
• ISO Auto, 50, 64, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250, 320, 400
• EXIF 2.2 TIFF (uncompressed), EXIF JPEG, DCF image formats
• QuickTime JPEG movies
• Resolutions incldue 3264 x 2448 TIFF, SHQ, HQ; 2592 x 1944 TIFF, SQ1; 2288 x 1712 TIFF, SQ1; 2048 x 1536 TIFF, SQ1; 1600 x 1200 TIFF, SQ2; 1280 x 960 TIFF, SQ2; 1024 x 768 TIFF, SQ2; 640 x 480 TIFF, SQ2; 3264 x 2176 3:2 SHQ, HQ
• Video resolutions include 640 x 480 HQ @ 15 fps; 320 x 240 SQ @ 15 fps
• Black and white, Sepia, Sharpness, Contrast, Color Phase, Resize, Guideline effects
• Up to 10 frames panoramas, stitched with CAMEDIA Master (when using Olympus xD-Picture Cards)
• Up to 1.6 fps bursts in any JPEG mode
• 0.44" EVF, 240,000 pixels
• 1.8" LCD, 134,000 pixels
• 0.6m to inf. Normal, 0.1m to 2.0m Macro, 5cm Super Macro focusing ranges
• ±2 EV exposure with 1/3 or 1/2 EV increments
• Digital ESP, Spot, Center Weighted measuring
• iESP2 auto TTL, presets (Daylight, Overcast, Tungsten, Fluorescent) white balance
• Flash modes include Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-In (front curtain; front curtain + Red-Eye Reduction), Forced Off
• 7s flash charge time at normal temperature and with BLM-1 battery
• Supports xD-Picture Cards (16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB), Compact Flash Type I/II; bundled with 32MB xD-Picture Card
• USB, NTSC interfaces
• 124x84.5x99mm size
• 660 g weight w/o batteries and Flash card
• Expected in North American retail in February 2004
• MSRP of $999

Besides, Olympus also introduced two converters for C-8080 Wide Zoom installed via a CLA-8 adapter ($44.95):

• WCON-08D ($219.95), wide, 0.8x factor (22.5mm in 35mm equiv.)
• TCON-14D ($239,95), tele, 1.4x factor (160mm in 35mm equiv.)

On the photo below you can see Olympus C-8080 Wide with the TCON-14D teleconverter:

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