Olympus FE-5000 - gold

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With so many different advanced features to offer, it's no wonder that the Olympus FE-5000

Featuring a 10-megapixel CCD sensor and a 5x optical zoom, the FE-5000 is ideal for macro and landscape photography.

The FE-5000 is incredibly easy to use, primarily thanks to its automatic detection modes, which include scene, smile and face recognition. 

Focusing and adjusting exposure is easy, as the camera automatically adapt's settings to suit ambient light and the subject you're shooting, while the FE-5000's dual mechanical and digital stabilisation system puts a stop to blur, ensuring your photos turn out perfectly. 

What's more, the Olympus FE-5000 boasts a full set of "one button-one function" controls, which let you get fantastic results without having to wade through multiple menus to get to the desired feature. is sat at the top of the FE range of digital cameras.

Type

Ultra compact

Resolution

10.7 megapixels including 10 effective megapixels

Type

CCD

Size

1/2.33" (6.13 x 4.60 mm)

Format

4:3, 16:9

Crop factor

Information not provided

ISO positions

Automatic: 80 - 1600
Manual: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

Cleaning

No

Image stabiliser

Dual digital and mechanical stabilisation system

Focal length

6.3 - 31.5mm

35mm equivalent

36 - 180mm

Aperture

f: 3.5 - 5.6

Optical zoom

5x

Digital zoom

5x
25x when used with the optical zoom

Minimum distance

From 0.1m upwards (wide angle)
From 0.6m upwards (telephoto)

Super macro mode up to 3cm

Normal distance

From 0.6m upwards (wide angle)
From 1.0m upwards (telephoto)

Focusing

TTL iESP autofocus with contrast detection

Type

Live View

Screen

2.7" LCD screen
230,000 pixels

Viewfinder features

Without viewfinder

Speed

1/2th sec - 1/2000th sec / < 4 sec (night scene)

Burst mode

High speed mode: 6.9 fps, up to 10 frames (with 3 megapixels)
Standard mode: 1 fps, up to 6 frames

Self-timer

12 seconds

Exposure modes

Shadow Adjustment technology

Effects

Black and white, sepia, resizing, reframing, red-eye reduction, light fix

White balance

iESP II, sunlight, tungsten lighting, overcast, fluorescent 1, 2 or 3

Video mode

Yes, with sound

TV output

NTSC or PAL video output

Photo file formats

JPEG, EXIF, PIM, DPS, DPOF

Maximum photo resolution

3872 x 2592

Video file formats

Quick Time Motion JPEG video recording

Maximum video resolution

640 x 480 at 30 fps

Audio file formats

Wave

Memory card

xD Picture + Micro SD cards

Internal memory

48 MB

Built-in

Built-in flash: auto, red-eye reduction, fill-in, off

Guide number / Flash range

Flash range from 0.1m to 3.8m (wide angle)
Flash range from 0.6m to 2.6m (telephoto)

Hot-shoe adapter for external flash

No

Interface

USB

Pictbridge / direct printing

Yes

Wireless function

No

Start-up time

Information not provided

Power options

Lithium-ion battery

Battery life

Information not provided

Internal menus

Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Czech, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Croatian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Greek, Slovak, Turkish, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Korean, Simple and Traditional Chinese, Thai, Arabic, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Indonesian, Hebrew, Malay and Vietnamese

Other functions

Lens construction: 8 lenses in 6 groups, including 4 aspheric elements
Light metering: EPS, spot, histogram in direct mode

Scene modes: portrait, landscape, night scenery, night portrait, sport, indoors, candlelight, self-portrait, cuisine, documents, snow and beach, smile detection

TruePic Turbo III image processor
Noise reduction / Pixel mapping
Face detection (up to 16 faces)
Intelligent Auto mode (automatic detection of 5 scenes)
Perfect Shot
Built-in slideshow mode

Hard copy manuals supplied

Information available soon

Accessories supplied

Micro SD adapter, strap, Li-42B lithium-ion battery, charger, CD, USB cables, video cable

Software supplied

Olympus Master

Dimensions

97.4 x 56.6 x 25.5 mm

Weight

137 g