screens. Users can also take advantage of the camera's unique movie shooting functions, including a movie stabilizer, continuous video recording, improved video editing, and the ability to use the camera's 3x optical zoom while recording.

Movie stabilizer helps reduce camera shake by automatic detection and correction of lateral and vertical camera vibrations, while continuous video recording allows the shooter to pause and resume video recording at any time and merge multiple video files into one single file. Users can also save a selected part of a movie clip into a new file during playback and capture a still image during video playback.

Special effects
The Digimax L50 also features several special effect functions that take picture taking a step further. The special effect functions offered by the L50 are Color Effect, Highlight, Photo Frame, and Composite Shot. Color Effects include black and white, sepia, blue, red, green, and negative, Highlight enables the shooter to emphasize a subject by putting its surroundings into soft focus, Composite Shot allows you to divide a shooting scene into two to four segments and save them into a single file and Photo Frame allows the shooter to choose from nine different types of existing photo frames to add to an image.

Continuous shooting and Auto Exposure Bracketing
Continuous Shooting and Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) functions are also supported by the L50. Shooters can use Continuous Shooting to shoot a fast-moving subject continuously and AEB to shoot a series of pictures with slightly varying exposures.

Editing
By using the built-in image editing functions of the Digimax L50, users can edit a picture in a variety of ways without the use of a PC. The L50's Trimming function allows users to cut an unwanted part of an image and save only the required part. When short of memory, the Resizing function lets you recover some of the memory space by resizing and saving images into a smaller size. The Rotating function allows users to rotate an image in the desired direction and save it.

Scene modes
The Digimax L50 also features various scene modes to help the user take better pictures in various shooting conditions. The 11 scene modes supported by the L50 are Night Scene, Portrait, Text Recognition, Children, Landscape, Close-up, Sunset, Dawn, Backlight, Fireworks, and Beach and Snow. In particular, Text Recognition is a feature that allows users to shoot documents such as books, papers, and magazines and then extract text from the image taken using the bundled Digimax Reader text-recognition software.

PictBridge
The PictBridge feature of the Digimax L50 allows pictures taken with a camera to be directly printed without having to use a PC. Users can instantly print clear, 5.0-megapixel images just by connecting the camera to a compatible printer. This, when used with the in camera editing features, gives shooters the ability to go from picture to print without the need for a PC.

USB 2.0
In addition, the L50 provides a substantially faster transfer rate with USB 2.0 as compared to commonly used USB 1.1. For added organization, the album feature of the Digimax L50 allows users to categorize and save images based on their own criteria, such as event and date, and to enjoy only selected images in a slide show.

Memory
The Digimax L50 is also equipped with 32 MB of built-in memory, which allows users to shoot and save pictures without a memory card. With the Copy to Card function, shooters can seamlessly transfer images saved in the internal memory to an external memory. It also provides various useful functions such as voice recording for up to one hour, voice memo for adding a short voice message to a picture, and "One-touch Playback" for instant playback of a picture even when the power is off.