Steadyshot Digital Image Stabilisation – Built-in SteadyShot™ image stabilization compensates for camera shake and helps prevent blur by capturing two photos at high shutter speeds and combining them into one clear image.

26mm Wide Angle 4x 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.

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 aggressively whilst maintaining enough image quality to print great 6x4 size.

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.

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 – helps 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.

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.