Small and light body with SLR-quality | Expressive Power | Easy operation | Versatile functions
As easy to use as a compact camera, the PEN incorporates an 11-area multiple high-speed imager AF mechanism and a 3.0-inch large LCD monitor featuring a wide viewing angle of 176° in all four directions and high visibility even under sunlight. In addition, Face Detection detects and focuses human faces automatically, while Shadow Adjustment Technology adjusts the brightness of the faces and background automatically. To simplify adjustments during shooting and allow you to concentrate on shooting pictures, Live Control shows the shooting function icons on the LCD monitor. Using the main and sub dials, you can select and operate the icon controls without taking your eyes off the screen view, checking the settings in real time on the Live View monitor.
The PEN comes with two shooting mode - Easy Shooting mode, in which the camera automatically adjusts the settings according to the shooting conditions, and Advanced Shooting mode, in which aperture and shutter speed can be manually adjusted for more creative control. Easy Shooting mode includes iAUTO, which automatically sets the optimum scene mode (Portrait / Landscape / Macro / Sports / Night Scene / Night Scene & Portrait*) when you point the camera at the subject, as well as 19 Scene Modes, Art Filter and Movie. Advanced Shooting mode lets you select from the P (programme), A (aperture-priority), S (shutter-priority) and M (manual).
The "e-Portrait" scene mode smoothes out skin tones and texture. When e-Portrait is set before shooting, the camera saves the same image before and after compensation*1. The compensation effect can also be added in the edit mode after shooting.
During S-AF + MF or MF operation, just turn the focus ring to magnify the part of the image that you want to focus on by 7X or 10X. The magnification ratio can be alternated by dial operation, making accurate manual focusing possible and supporting more precise manual focusing in close-up shooting.
You can create a slideshow that mixes still images, movies, and sound. The camera incorporates five kinds of background music as well as slideshow control functions including still image fade-in/out, sound recording volume, and background music volume adjustment.
You can connect the camera to an HDMI-equipped TV set via a commercially available HDMI mini-cable and view high-quality HD movies and images together with stereo audio.
