Olympus Stylus 7040 / mju 7040

" Slip a stylish µ out of your cocktail bag or jacket breast pocket and prepare to impress with one of the world's smallest zoom power packages. With 14 Megapixels and up to 2GB of internal memory the new µ cameras shoot brilliant pictures and leave plenty of space to save your masterpieces. Optical zooms ranging from the ultra-slim wide 5x (26-130mm) and 7x (28-196mm) to a staggering wide 10x (28-280mm) ensure you'll never be at a loss when capturing a group of friends or a point in the distance. Then simply flip through the results using the new Photo Surfing option. Thanks to Olympus [ib] technology, it allows pictures tagged by event, person, or location (using Face Recognition and GPS) to be located easily. LCDs measuring up to 3” make sharing or looking up the latest trick in the In-Camera Manual all the more enjoyable. And you can even shoot HD movies to capture important events in all their glory and relax by watching them on TV via HDMI. What more can you ask for? Well, you could request a number of other Olympus functions, and it almost goes without saying that these are on board as well. To name a few: Dual Image Stabilisation, i-Auto, AF Tracking, Beauty Mode, and In-Camera Panorama all let you snap great shots without worrying about the details. Magic Filters are also on hand to let you test the limits of your creativity. "

Equivalent to a 35mm camera

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Wide-Angle Zoom Lens

With the new Stylus family of cameras, you can choose the wide-angle zoom that best suits your needs. The STYLUS-7040 offers a 7x (28mm – 196mm equivalent) lens that gives you the versatility for close and distant subjects alike.

HD Videos and HDMI Control for a Home Theater Experience

The STYLUS-7040 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.

14 Megapixels for Superior Image Quality

The camera offers a 14-megapixel image sensor enabling consumers to achieve consistently sharp and vivid images when producing large-format prints or cropping/enlarging a portion of an image.

AF Tracking for Friends and Man's Best Friend

AF Tracking technology locks your fast-moving subject in focus, and continuously adjusts focus and brightness. This enables you to keep fast-moving and unpredictable subjects like small children and pets in focus for the perfect shot. There's even a specially designed AF Tracking “Pet Mode” for animal lovers.

Express Your Inner Artist with Magic Filter

In-camera Art Features debuted on Olympus E-System DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras last year. A similar feature, entitled Magic Filter, has been developed for the new Stylus cameras. Magic Filter enables 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 new Magic Filter includes:

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; and
Drawing – Turn your image into a sketch outline for children to color.

Blur-Free Photos Two Ways

Dual Image Stabilization combines two technologies – mechanical Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization and Digital Image Stabilization – to provide one powerful anti-blur solution for capturing great images whether the photographer or the subject is moving. Olympus' mechanical Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization keeps images sharp by adjusting the image sensor to compensate for camera movement, which often occurs in low-light conditions when shutter speeds are slower. Digital Image Stabilization freezes the action with high ISO sensitivity and fast shutter speeds that prevent blurry images often caused by a moving subject. By combining the two technologies, users of the new Stylus cameras are able to take crystal-clear images in any shooting situation.

Never Miss a Detail with Shadow Adjustment Technology

Shooting outdoors in bright daylight can be tricky because of the extreme contrast between dark shadowed areas and bright sunlit 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. These Stylus cameras address 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 with the same contrast as the naked eye.

In-Camera Panorama for the Ultimate Vista

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. To create the ultimate panoramic picture, consumers can use the OLYMPUS [ib] Software to stitch up to 10 images together.

TruePic™ III Image Processor

The Stylus cameras feature Olympus' exclusive TruePic III image processor developed for the demanding performance of DSLR cameras. Olympus' enhanced TruePic III Image Processor produces crystal-clear photos using all the pixel information for each image to deliver superior picture quality with more accurate colors, true-to-life flesh tones and faster processing speeds. TruePic III also captures crisp, clear images at high ISO settings, which are traditionally associated with increasing image noise or producing grainy photos.

OLYMPUS [ib] Software and In-Camera Manual

All Spring 2010 digital compact cameras, including the Stylus series, will offer the new OLYMPUS [ib] software. The new 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 new software will be available for Windows operating systems only.

The new Stylus cameras will come equipped with the instruction manual saved on the cameras' new internal memory. This translates into easily referencing instructions while shooting on the go. The internal memory also enables in-camera image playback in an organized fashion. Eliminating a paper or CD-Rom instruction manual is part of Olympus' ongoing environmental commitment to conserve natural resources and reduce its carbon footprint.

SD Compatibility

Olympus' new Spring 2010 digital compact cameras offer SD capability for up to 32 gigabytes of capacity.

Image Sensor 14 Megapixels (effective), 1/2.3"

Focal Length/Lens Configuration 5.0 – 35.0mm (28 – 196mm equivalent in 35mm photography)

Zoom 7x Optical Zoom + 5x Digital Zoom

Aperture Range f3.0 (W) / f5.9 (T)

Display 3.0" HyperCrystalTM II LCD, 230,000 dots

Viewfinder N/A

Focus System CCD Contrast Detection

Focus Range (from lens surface) Normal mode: 27.6" – infinity (0.7m – infinity)
Macro mode: Wide: 3.9" – infinity (0.1m – infinity); Tele: 23.6" – infinity (0.6m – infinity)
Super Macro mode: 0.79" – 27.6" (0.02m – 0.7m)

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

Shutter Speed 1/2000 sec. –1/4 sec. (up to 4 sec. in Night Scene mode)

ISO Sensitivity (SOS: Standard Output Sensitivity) Auto, High Auto, fixed: 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

Exposure Metering Digital ESP Metering, Spot Metering, Face Detection, AF Tracking

White Balance Control Auto, Presets (Daylight, Overcast, Tungsten and 3 Fluorescents)

Exposure Compensation ±2 EV steps in 1/3 EV steps

Image File Format Still Image: JPEG
Movie: MP4

Number of Recorded Pixels 14MP (4,288 x 3216)
12MP (3,968 x 2,976)
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 (4,288 x 2,416)

Motion Blur Suppression Dual Image Stabilization

Shooting Modes 24 Shooting Modes; Intelligent Auto, Program Auto, Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization, Panorama, Beauty Mode, Magic Filter, Scene Modes (1. PORTRAIT, 2. LANDSCAPE, 3. NIGHT SCENE. 4. NIGHT+PORTRAIT, 5. SPORT, 6. INDOOR, 7. CANDLE, 8. SELF PORTRAIT, 9. SUNSET, 10. FIREWORKS, 11. CUISINE, 12. DOCUMENTS, 13. BEACH & SNOW, 14. PET), HD Movie

Magic Filter(Pop Art, Pinhole, Fisheye, Drawing)

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

Continuous Shooting Yes

Shooting Assist Functions Perfect Shot Preview, Histogram, Frame Assist, Voice Recording

Movie Mode HDMI:
  1080i
  720p
  480p

Image Processing TruePic™ III Image Processor

Noise Reduction Set automatically at shutter speeds of 0.5 second or longer in specific scene modes

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

Playback Edit Effects Still Image: Red-Eye Fix, Shadow Adjustment Edit, Beauty Fix, Resize, Cropping, Black & White, Sepia, Calendar, Saturation

Flash Built-in

Flash Modes Auto (for low light and backlit conditions)
Red-Eye Reduction
Fill-in
Off

Flash Working Range TBD

Self-Timer 12/2 Seconds

Memory 2GB (1.8GB for shooting)

Removable Media Card SD/SDHC Card

Outer Connectors Multi-Terminal (USB Connector, Audio/Video Output)

Auto-Connect USB USB 2.0 High-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 10.3 - 10.5

Operating Temperature/Humidity Temperature:
  Operation: 32° – 104°F (0° – 40°C)
  Storage: -4° – 140°F (-20° – 60°C)

Humidity:
  Operation: 30% – 90%
  Storage: 10% – 90%

Power Source Li-ion Rechargeable Battery (LI-42B)
F-2AC Adapter

Battery Life (CIPA DC-002) TBD

Dimension 3.7"W x 2.2"H x 1.0"D
(94.5mm x 55.5mm x 25.9mm)

Weight 5.1oz (144g) without batteries and media card