27mm 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 shots, landscapes, tight interior shots - to telephoto where you can zoom in to distant objects.

Electronic VR Image Stabilisation – Electronic VR (Vibration Reduction) works to counteract blurred images due to shaky hands and subject movement - important at full zoom where a small movement of the hand can cause a lot of movement at the other end.

Motion Detection - camera detects camera shake and subject movement, and automatically compensates by controlling shutter speed and ISO sensitivity to control blurring.

Smart Portrait System with Skin Softening – Complete range of automated functions for great portrait shots including: Red-eye Fix, Face Priority AF, Smile Mode and Blink Warning, D-Lighting and Skin Softening for smooth skin tones.

Red-Eye Fix - automatically analyzes the captured image for the presence of red-eye and corrects it before saving the image to memory – great if printing from the memory card or directly from the camera to printer using PictBridge.

Face Priority AF – focuses and sets correct exposure on faces rather than other objects that may appear in the frame.

Smile Mode and Blink Warning – In Smile Mode camera takes photo as soon as someone in the frame smiles; Blink Warning displays a warning message if someone in the frame has their eyes closed.

D-Lighting - rescues underexposed images or shots taken with excessive backlight by adding light and detail where necessary while leaving correctly-exposed areas untouched.

Skin Softening - leverages built-in face-detection technology to ensure smooth skin tone on the face of your subjects, and can be applied in a choice of three adjustment levels to optimise results to your liking.

Subject Tracking – maintains focus on moving subjects – perfect for shooting sports, wildlife, kids, pets etc.

Best Shot Selector (BSS) - automatically takes up to 10 shots while the shutter is pressed and saves the sharpest image.

12 Megapixels – allows you to print large, enlarge and crop aggressively whilst maintaining image quality.

Quick Retouch - optimises contrast and color vividness for beautiful images

Scene Auto Selector – Automatically detects and selects the correct scene mode for the shooting conditions – saves fiddling around in menus for the right settings.

USB charging – Battery charges via USB using the supplied charging AC Adapter or when connected to your PC – handy if you have forgotten your charger.