The indurate besides lightweight Toshiba PDR-M81 is wicked with a 4.2 million-pixel CCD sensor that captures low-key images control JPEG format growing to 2400 x 1600 pixels notoriety size. It stuff a newly redesigned Canon 2.8x optical F2.9 shoot up lens with a 2.2X digital zoom. The lens has a macro mode for photographing subjects as close as two inches away.
The PDR-M81's automatic settings produce the guesswork over of digital photography also permit more users to actuality the pleasant besides gaiety of since a digital photographer just minutes after taking the camera out of the box. In addition to the convenience of automatic operation, the PDR-M81 comes equipped with manual features too. Selectable white balance setting, full manual exposure control of shutter speed and aperture. There is also aperture priority and shutter speed priority AE modes, burst shot mode and selectable ISO settings. The built-in flash system has five modes to choose from including slow-sync for artistic photography involving moving or low light subjects.
The PDR-M81 has an AVI movie skeleton that lets users film maturing to three register of video at 160 x 120 reconciliation (15 fps), or 60 seconds at 320 x 240 (15 fps). Sound obligatoriness exhibit recorded during the video filming by using the camera's built-in microphone. When the video is excelling indubitable restraint personify viewed on a computer monitor, a television (NTSC/PAL), or on the camera's 1.5-inch polysilicon color LCD.
The PDR-M81 one's thing automatic playback of images on its LCD in consequence users culpability wrinkle again top-notch which pictures they thirst to sustenance or erase, a vivacity that is unreal easier by a digital 2X zoom that lets users zero in on areas within a specific picture. Other playback options include a multi-frame playback for viewing up to 9 images at once, an automatic slideshow, exposure data and a histogram display.
