Olympus SP800 Specifications & Features Leaked [New Olympus Superzoom Boasts 30x Zoom, 720p HD Video Capture Support]

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Just prior to this year’s PMA event detailed information concerning one of Olympus’s new cameras that’s doubtless scheduled to make a PMA appearance, namely the superzoom Olympus SP800, has already made it into the public domain.

The Olympus SP800 superzoom, as can be seen from the leaked spec sheets (in French) provided below, touts a 14.5 megapixel CCD, the aforementioned 30x zoom lens (28-840mm 35mm effective) and, as with the vast majority of cameras these days, HD video capture is of course represented with the Olympus SP800 offering up 720p HD video recording in QuickTime and Motion JPEG formats.

Other interesting facts that can be gained from the SP800 spec sheets below include an 8fps burst mode which can ramp up to 10fps (though you’ll see the resolution bumped down to a mere 3MP), sensitivities from 64-6400 ISO, a total of 17 scene modes as well as what appears to be panoramic and beauty shot functions, a number of processing styles (post processing filters) taking in Pop Art, Fish Eye, Crayon.

Obviously at this juncture there’s no official word from Olympus concerning the SP800 superzoom but, based on what we’ve seen, we’ll be keeping our ears to the ground on this one – not least because superzooms show no signs of decreasing in popularity right now.