Optical Image Stabilisation plus High ISO – dual image stabilising technology works to counteract blurred images due to shaky hands, subject movement, or when shooting in low-light conditions or at full zoom.

24mm Wide Angle 5x Optical Zoom Lens – cover a wide range of shooting situations from wide-angle to capture more in your image - such as group photos, landscapes, or tight interior shots - to telephoto where you can zoom up close to distant objects. Also features a bright f/2.4 aperture for low-light shooting.

Face Detection – focuses and sets correct exposure and white balance for faces (up to 8) rather than other picture elements that might be in the foreground or background.

14.1 Megapixel Sensor – print up to A3+ size or crop your images whilst maintaining enough image quality to print great 6x4 size.

Sweep Panorama - Just press the shutter and sweep the camera: automatically combines a burst of images to create extra-wide panoramic pictures

Intelligent Auto - Automatically adjusts exposure and other settings for optimum results in a wide range of shooting situations. No need to fiddle around in menus or manually select scene modes.

Intelligent Scene Recognition - automatically detects eight different types of scene conditions and within 1/30th of a second selects the appropriate camera settings – saves fiddling with menus.

Self-portrait mode - Detects correct composition when holding the camera at arm's length, firing shutter automatically for properly-framed self portraits

Red-eye Correction – By using the retouch function, red eyes can be fixed in-camera with the push of a button – great if you are printing directly from the camera or memory card.

Anti-Blink - When the camera is set to Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two images, recording only the photo with less squinting. If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.

Smile Shutter – when in this mode camera automatically takes a photo when it detects a subject’s smile in the frame.

Motion Detection - Motion Detection, along with Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO sensitivity and increases the shutter speed when movement is detected, reducing blur in moving subjects and faces.

Function Guide – help beginners navigate the camera’s functions and settings by displaying descriptions of chosen functions on the LCD screen.

Dynamic Range Optimiser (DRO) – automatically optimises exposure for high –contrast scenes such as backlit portraits to prevent under exposure.

HD output - View video and still images on HD TV (requires optional VMC-MHC3 cable). PhotoTV HD enhances still image viewing on compatible BRAVIA

PMB Portable - Built-in transfer software allows quick, easy uploads to image sharing sites when camera is connected to any web-enabled PC.

Dual Memory Stick/SDHC Memory Cards –supports both Memory Stick and readily-available high capacity SDHC memory cards for flexibility of storage options.