VG Series delivers excellent images and great value-for-money
New Olympus compact makes every day a movie day Imaging’s easier with the VG-130
Hamburg, 6 Jan 2011 – For anyone who wants good quality movies and photos with minimum fuss and expense, Olympus has the perfect compact cameras. The new VG-130 is the ideal all-rounder. With a 5x wide optical zoom, 14 Megapixels and Digital Image Stabilisation, it offers the full array of Olympus high-end optics and clever features – like the instant Movie Rec button – that make it easy to capture the moment anytime, anywhere. A big and bright 3-inch, 230,400-dot LCD and super-slender design make it a pleasure to share shots on the spot with family and friends. The VG-130 offers another unexpected luxury in this price category – it comes with a full-metal body. The VG-130 will be available from mid-January 2011 for under Ł100.
More quality, less money
With a superb 5x optical zoom and all the versatility of a wide 26-130mm* lens packed into an extremely slim body, the VG-130 is just 19.3mm deep.
More movies, less hassle
Olympus’ VG Series cameras are full of intelligent features that make it easier than ever to harness the brilliant lens to make beautiful memories. The separate Movie Rec button means users no longer have to work through the menu to start recording a movie in 720p High Definition quality. They just hit the red button and point. Thanks to automatic aids like
AF Tracking, Intelligent Auto Mode (i-Auto), seven Magic Filters and SDHC/SDXC** compatibility, with a VG in their pocket they’re all set.
VG-130 outstanding features:
Image Quality:
• 5x wide optical zoom lens (26-130mm*) for effortless close-ups and wide-angle shots
• 720p HD Movie with sound for capturing movies in excellent quality
• 14 Megapixels for high-quality full-size movies, stills and prints
• Digital Image Stabilisation for reducing blur
• Metal Body
Usability:
• 3” colour LCD (230,400 dots) for easily framing, reviewing and sharing shots
• Face Detection and Shadow Adjustment Technology for capturing people’s faces just as you want them
• Intelligent Auto Mode (i-Auto) and AF Tracking for easy setting and focussing
• Scene Mode for automatic settings that suit specific conditions
(e.g., Landscape, Night)
Creativity & Flexibility:
• Magic Filters for adding creative effects to still photos:
Punk, Pop Art, Pin Hole, Drawing, Fish Eye, Soft Focus, plus new Sparkle
Other key features:
• Super-slim body for an attractive, highly portable design
• [ib] software for browsing, organising and viewing images by person, place, location or event.
• ISO 100 to 1600
• SDHC and SDXC memory card compatible**
• Built-in flash
• In-camera manual
• USB battery charging
* 35mm camera equivalent.
** SD is a trademark of SD Card Association.
Appendix
Advanced Face Detection technology
A technology that searches for faces in a composition and recognises them as the main subject. It then automatically puts them in focus and optimally adjusts exposure to create an image that’s sharp in the right places and ideally exposed. Advanced Face Detection Technology can detect up to 16 faces.
AF Tracking
This system tracks a moving subject automatically and keeps it continually in focus – for optimally focused and exposed pictures. It even memorises the subject when it goes out of frame and resumes tracking when it reappears.
Digital Image Stabilisation
Helps to avoid image blur caused by camera shake or fast-moving subjects.
i-Auto Mode
The “intelligent-Auto” mode uses advanced automatic detection technology that enables the camera to automatically recognise the most commonly shot scenes. This makes it possible to capture perfect photos without the need for manual settings.
[ib] software
Olympus now offers [ib], an integrated photo browsing and organising software. Images can be organised by person with a new face recognition technology, by place with a GPS-based mapping function or by event.
Magic Filters
Make it possible to create special artistic effects in still images directly in the camera.
Fish-Eye: Simulates the dramatic effect of a fish eye lens, lending a new perspective to the whole scene with a “wrap-around” effect.
Pin Hole: Reduces peripheral brightness, like with an image seen through a pinhole. A unique colour tone results in a style that has an air of secrecy or portrays the feeling of being lost in another dimension or space.
Pop Art: Enhances colours, making them stronger and more vivid, to create high-impact pictures that express the light-hearted feeling of the pop art style.
Punk: Displays images primarily in contrasting pink and black to give them an edgy, punk-inspired feel.
Drawing: Transforms images into line drawings to give the impression that subjects have been sketched by an artist.
Soft Focus: Creates a soft tone that gives pictures an ethereal, otherworldly atmosphere. It renders pictures as though they were veiled in heavenly light, without obscuring details such as hair or flower petals.
Sparkle: Adds twinkling lights to objects.
HD Movie (720p High Definition)
High Definition video (HD video) delivers a high-quality movie experience when played back on an HD TV. In HD Movie Mode, the camera captures HD video using the advanced Motion JPEG movie compression format at a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a rate of 30 frames per second.
Scene Mode
Offers a choice of different scenes to suit the subject being captured, for example, landscape, night, beach and snow or pet. The camera automatically adjusts a host of parameters to achieve the best possible result for the chosen scene.
Shadow Adjustment Technology (SAT)
SAT automatically makes fine adjustments to gradation in under-exposed areas of an image to heighten detail that shadows would otherwise conceal. This it achieves without affecting detail or exposure in lighter areas of the shot – and displays the result in Live View on the LCD. SAT generates beautifully exposed shots despite uneven lighting, offering even levels of detail from corner to corner.
