BenQ DC P860 8MP

The BenQ DC P860 8MP Digital Camera has a picture resolution of 8 mega-pixels, meant for producing superior quality images. A higher image resolution produces images with finer details. It has a height of 6.5 cm, width of 10 cm, depth of 2.8 cm, and weight of 182 grams. The camera’s 2.5-inch LCD screen provides users with an option of previewing images before shooting. Shot images can also be viewed on this screen; which has a screen resolution of 153,600 pixels. The focal length range provided by this camera is 7.8mm to 46.8mm which is equivalent to 37mm to 222mm on a 35mm film camera. It indicates that almost all types of images can be shot using this camera. Images and video can be stored on the camera’s 18MB internal memory. For increasing the internal memory capacity, BenQ has provided a slot for connecting SD memory cards.

BenQ DC P860 Camera has an optical zoom of 6x, which indicates that the images can be magnified to 6 times its original size without any loss to the image quality. The digital zoom provided by this camera is 5x. The sharpness of an image is determined by its light sensitivity, in this case the maximum light sensitivity is ISO 1000. This camera offers 5 white balance settings as well as automatic red-eye correction factor. The minimum focus range is 30cm while the macro focus range starts at 7cm. Thus images as close as 7 cm can be shot with clarity and precision. Movies and videos can be recorded at the rate of 30 frames per second. The maximum video resolution is 640×480 pixels.

BenQ DC P860 Compact Digital Camera has many in-built technologies to minimize image blur, Shake Reduction and Optical Image Stabilisation. Additionally it comes with PictBridge compatibility that permits direct printing of images through any PictBridge compatible printer eliminating the personal computer. The images and videos can be viewed on the computer (through USB-PC interface) and on television (through the video-out port). This camera includes a USB cable, an A/V cable, a manual and a CD-ROM with all the necessary software. To know the special effects on digital camera read Adrian’s digital Escapades articles of best products.