Digital photography that makes a splash
Dunk it, dip it, submerse it in water! With a JIS Class 7 waterproof-rated exterior, the Optio43WR isn’t afraid of getting wet. Capture the excitement of river rafting with high-quality VGA (640x480 pixels) movies and sound. Zoom in on raindrops with the precision and clarity of a 2.8X optical zoom lens. And its clear 1.6-inch LCD monitor with accelerated image processing ensures you’ll never miss a moment during even the sunniest day at the beach. The perfect companion for every outdoor adventure.

Quality Features

• Capture the delicate details of every image with 4.0 effective megapixels.

• Get close to the action with a 2.8X zoom lens (equivalent to a 37-104mm lens in 35mm format). When combined with the 4X digital zoom, the optical zoom offers a total of 11.2X zoom power with smooth lever operation. With Macro focus, shoot from as close as 1cm from the subject when the zoom is at the wide-angle setting. Perfect for filling the frame with small objects such as stamps.

• Record movies at VGA high resolution (640x480 pixels) with a high-speed CCD.  Movie quality has been enhanced with 30fps performance (double the conventional rate)*. Movies may be recorded to the full capacity of your chosen memory media. (*To record movies at 30fps, an SD card with a high transfer speed is required. Recorded movies can be viewed using ACDSee for PENTAX (on systems with QuickTimeTM installed).

Performance Features

• Dunk with confidence! With its high performance JIS Class 7 waterproof rating, the Optio43WR remains watertight even when rinsed, splashed and immersed in water.* It also features a rust-resistant metal interior, rubber sealants, and lens protection. (*The Optio43WR may be immersed up to three feet for less than 30 minutes but should not be operated underwater.)

• Catch the action faster! With its Quick Start setting, users can switch on the power within 0.9 seconds prior to shooting with the press of the shutter release button. A special Snap mode ensures sharp results from action shots with a release lag of just 0.05 seconds* from one shot to the next. Change modes with a single touch to switch from shooting to playback or back to shooting mode. (*Time taken from the moment when the shutter release is fully depressed following focus lock to the moment the shutter opens, when the flash is switched off.)

• Keep your Optio43WR powered with commonly-available CR-V3 and AA batteries.

• View the action even in direct sunlight with a clear, 1.6-inch LCD monitor with accelerated image processing to allow a refresh rate of 1/60th of a second.

• Plug in to your computer with a convenient USB connection.

Creative Features

• Choose from an array of 12 shooting modes on the virtual mode dial on the LCD display:

  • Program mode allows you to take control over a combination of functions at once.

  • Landscape mode captures the grandeur of spacious settings and emphasizes the shades of land and sky.

  • Night Scene mode enhances scenes with nighttime illumination.

  • Night Scene Portrait mode captures detail in low natural light, with a flash that highlights the foreground.

  • Portrait mode captures natural-looking skin tones for more flattering results when shooting people.

  • Surf mode counteracts the negative effects of water reflection on images and provides appropriate exposure throughout the frame.

  • Snow mode helps avoid the effects of excess reflection.

  • Flower mode captures the natural detail, color, and beauty of flowers.

  • Fireworks mode helps capture the vivid color and excitement of fireworks.

  • Snap mode allows you to capture your subject in an instant with the assurance of automatic pan focusing.

  • Movie mode allows users to select recording pixels from a choice of 640x480, 320x240, or 160x120 and control the frame rate between 30fps and 15fps. The color selection offers full color, black and white, and sepia shooting, and all files are stored in MOV format for easy playback on PC.

  • Panorama Assist mode captures expansive scenes and allows horizontal or vertical images to be combined. Images can then be aligned and combined on a PC using the simple-to-use software provided.

• Add a creative flair or change the mood to existing images with a choice of ten filter options: black and white, sepia, red, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, soft, and brightness.

• Improve the quality of portraits taken at night with Flash-on, Flash-off modes, Slow Shutter Sync and a Red-eye Reduction function*. The Optio43WR also has automatic flash for low-light conditions. (*This feature does not eliminate red-eye in all instances.)

• Record voice or other sounds to a still image or movie and provide a playback message for others. A special red light signal notifies others of the image.

• Crop unwanted elements, overwrite new images onto the old, and retain and store important sections as individual files with the Trimming function.

Advanced Features 

• Speed the search for recorded shots! The Optio43WR displays nine recorded images at once. Each image may also be magnified 8X to check for focus and detail.

• Conserve power! The viewfinder on the Optio43WR offers actual image zoom allowing you to conserve power by switching off the LCD monitor.

• Ensure appropriate white balance in varying situations with auto, daylight, shade, tungsten, and fluorescent light settings, or use a manual setting to experiment with settings for different results.

• Achieve the optimal lighting results for the right subject! The Optio43WR offers a range of metering options including Spot metering, Multi-segment metering, and Center-weighted metering.

• Adjust light sensitivity to suit your circumstances with a choice ranging from equivalent-to-ISO50 for minimized noise, to ISO100, 200, and 400 equivalence.

• Take a series of shots, choose the best, and delete the rest! The OptioWR43 provides exposure compensation across a range of ±2EV in steps of 1/3EV.

• Control every shot with three grades of settings for sharpness, saturation, and contrast.

• Select the start time, the duration of the interval between shots, the number of frames, and go! With its interval shooting feature, the Optio43WR will operate to achieve a set of images to portray the slow-moving processes.

• Capture all the action in one image! With a press of the shutter release, capture four consecutive shots of your subject and view them on one frame.

• Join group shots and minimize camera shake in low light settings with a handy self-timer.

• Free up memory space! With the OptioWR43 you can resize and reduce image data size and save recorded shots to free up space for more shots. Smaller files may overwrite larger versions or be saved as separate files, and the resized images make ideal e-mail attachments.

• Attach recorded sound to your favorite images with the voice memo function.

• Evaluate each scene by displaying light levels during shooting and playback with the histogram display.

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