Featuring 12 megapixels, the compact and stylish Pentax Optio A40 offers three types of Shake Reduction including mechanical, digital and movie. Each version helps deliver sharp, blur-free shots where camera shake is an issue such as action photography or in low light conditions at dawn, dusk or at night. This Optio also features the newest Face Recognition technology including a Natural Skin Tone mode and a Half-length Portrait mode, which automatically takes a head and shoulder photograph of subjects.

The pentax Optio A40 with 2.5 inch TFT color LCD with LCD Bright Mode captures high-quality MPEG-4 DivX (640 x 480) at 30fps with anti-shake movies. The Pentax Optio A40 with 21MB internal memory uses SD, SDHC memory cards for recording.