Contax announces i4R digital camera By
Mike Tomkins
(Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 00:18 EDT)
Contax has announced a new ultracompact digital camera model with a stylish (and rather unusual) design that puts the flash strobe on the sliding lens cover.
The Contax i4R has a resolution of four megapixels, and a fixed focal-length lens equivalent to 39mm on a 35mm camera. Other features include SD memory card storage, resolutions to 2272 x 1704 pixels, a 15fps VGA movie mode, 6x digital zoom, nine-point AF, three metering modes, ISO ratings from 50 - 400, a 1.5" LCD display, eight scene modes, and burst modes of 3fps without autofocus, or 1.4fps with autofocus. Pricing and availability for the camera have not been announced at this time. Contax i4R | | Type | Digital still camera with record, playback and erase modes | Recording media / Recording method | SD memory card/MMC (Multi Media Card), in compliance with DCF (*Note 1) (Exif Ver. 2.2), in compliance with JPEG, DPOF compatible (*Note 2) | Effective Pixels | 4 Megapixel | Image Pickup Device | 1/2.7” square pixel original color filter interlace reading system CCD (total number of pixels: 4,190,000) | Pixels (still image) | 2272×1704, 1600×1200, 1280×960, 640×480 | Moving image sizes | 640x480, 320x240 | Moving image frame rate | 15 frames per second, 30 frames per second | Lens | Carl Zeiss Tessar T* (4 elements in 3 groups) (2 aspheric, 1 high index lens element) Focal length: 6.5mm (equivalent to approx. 39mm in 35mm film format), Aperture: f/2.8 | Electronic zoom | Up to 6x, 13 steps | Focal adjustment | Video feedback auto focus (nine-point multi AF or spot AF selectable) | Range of shooting | Approximately 60cm (24 inches) to infinity from the surface of the front lens element, approximately 5 (8 inches) to 60cm (24 inches) in macro mode | Exposure control method | Program AE | Light metering system | 3 modes selectable: CCD multi-area evaluation, center-weighted and spot metering | Metering link range | LV6 ~ LV16 | Exposure compensation | +2.0EV ~ -2.0EV (1/3EV steps) | Shutter | Using both CCD electronic shutter and programmed electronic shutter with independent aperture control, 1 second to 1/2000 second | White Balance | Auto, sunlight, overcast, incandescent, fluorescent and preset | Color modes | Color, monochrome, sepia | Sharpness | 5 levels: -1, standard, +1, +2, +3 | Chroma | 3 levels: +, -, standard | Sensitivity setting | AUTO, ISO50, 100, 200, 400 | Liquid crystal monitor | 1.5” 130,000-pixel TFT color liquid crystal monitor with adjustable brightness control | Flash | Built-in system, shooting range (for sensitivity setting at AUTO): approx. 60cm (24 inches) to 1.8m (5.9 feet) | Flash Mode | Auto flash, Auto flash for red-eye reduction, Flash off, Fill-in flash | Scene Mode | Sport action, Portrait, Night Portrait, Sunset, Twilight, Night view, Black and white, Sepia | Moving image recording mode | AVI | Movie image recording time | Up to full capacity of the memory card *1 | Other shooting modes | Self timer mode (2 seconds and 10 seconds), REC review (on/off), Digital zoom | Continuous shooting | High-speed continuous shooting: Maximum 3 frames per second, AF continuous shooting: Maximum 1.4 frames per second (Recording image size: 2272×1704), up to the full capacity of the memory card *2 | Voice memo mode | Up to 30 seconds for each image | Resize | Images can be resized to 320×240 or 160×120. The area to be resized can be selected. File format: JPEG | Playback mode | Single display, group display, multi image display (six images), zoomed playback function, continuous shooting playback function, voice memo, protect, erase (single image), erase (all images), rotate, slide show, close-up playback 2x, 4x, 8x, thumbnail playback, playback of movies shot with camera, information display, DPOF setting, PictBridge setting (Note 3) | Setup function | AF mode setting, LCD brightness adjustment, date setting, date insertion, card format, auto power-off setting, shutter sound/operational sound adjustment, startup screen selection and setting, REC review ON/OFF selection (4 seconds, 2 seconds, OFF), language selection (Japanese, English, Germany, French, Spanish, Chinese), video output selection, consecutive file number reset, setting reset, mode position of power-ON selection, digital zoom ON/OFF selectable, DISPLAY selection (information display ON/OFF) | Input/output terminal (Camera) | Input/output terminal only for cradle connection | Input/output terminal (Cradle) | Video output terminal(NTSC/PAL composite video, audio signal), DC input (using a dedicated AC adapter), USB terminal (miniB) | Power source | 3.7 volt lithium-ion battery 760mAh | Captured Images | Approximately 100 images with a new, fully charged lithium-ion battery, at room temperature, based on the guidelines of the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) | Dimensions | 94 mm width × 38.5 mm height × 21 mm depth, excluding protrusions | Weight | Approximately 90g, excluding battery and the recording media | Operating temperature | 0~45 degrees Celsius (no condensation) | More Photos | | | | . |
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