Taiwan’s BenQ has introduced its new C840 digital camera, following up on the C740i the company announced just this past July. The C840 features an 8 megapixel resolution, a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder, a face tracking mode which does its best to make sure people in your snapshots are recognizable, and an Shake-Free mode designed to prevent photos from being blurred by hand motion—BenQ doesn’t say whether the camera uses digital or mechanical image stabilization, but we’re betting on the former.
The C840 also supports recording video in a widescreen 720 by 400 pixel format at 30 frames per second, and supports both 3:2 and 16:9 output modes for displaying images on widescreen televisions or other displays. The camera stores images to SD cards (although it only comes with 6 MB of internal memory), offers 15 different shooting modes (plus a manual mode sure to appeal to knowledgeable photographers), sports a 3× optical zoom, and offers ISO sensitivity down to 1,600.
BenQ hasn’t offered any pricing or availability information on the C840, but considering the camera is a followup to a model which has only been on the market for a couple months, we tend to believe the C840 will show up soon—otherwise, it’ll arrive just in time to make room for its own successor.
