A D-BC7 battery charger is supplied, just slip the battery out of the camera and onto the charger to top it back up to capacity. A full charge from flat will take a maximum of 3 hours.
Connections
On the left side of the camera (from the rear) is a small connectors compartment covered by a rubber door, behind this you will find the combined USB and A/V out and DC-IN (for optional AC adapter) connectors.
Lens
The 750Z and Olympus C-7000 Zoom are the only current seven megapixel digital cameras which provide an almost 200 mm equiv. telephoto, although the price you pay is a not-very-wide 38 mm equiv. 'wide angle'. The 750Z is also the second slowest extending camera of our group test, just under three seconds isn't fast.
Compared to other seven megapixel digital camera lenses
Camera
Labeled as
Zoom range
(35 mm equiv.)
Startup extend time
Max aperture
(wide - tele)
Canon PowerShot G6
Canon Zoom
35 - 140 mm (4x)
3.0 sec
F2.0 - F3.0
Casio Exilim EX-P700
Canon Zoom
33 - 132 mm (4x)
2.1 sec
F2.8 - F4.0
Olympus C-7000 Z
Olympus Zoom
38 - 190 mm (5x)
1.0 sec
F2.8 - F4.8
Pentax Optio 750Z
smc Pentax
37.5 - 187.5 mm (5x)
2.8 sec
F2.8 - F4.6
Sony DSC-V3
Carl Zeiss
34 - 136 mm (4x)
2.5 sec
F2.8 - F4.0
Base / Tripod Mount
On the base of the camera is a plastic tripod mount which is unfortunately not in line with the center of the lens and will block the battery / storage compartment when mounted. However it's central enough not to cause the camera to tilt to one side or another.
Internal Flash
The flash unit is mounted at the top right corner of the camera front, it has a specified range of 3.8 m at wide angle and 2.2 m at telephoto (Auto ISO).
Auto Focus Assist Lamp
To the top left of the lens is the AF assist lamp, it provides a very bright beam of reddish-orange light to assist the camera's contrast detect AF system in low light situations. You can disable this lamp from the camera menu.
Supplied In the Box
• Pentax Optio 750Z digital camera
• D-LI7 Lithium-Ion battery
• D-BC7 Battery charger
• 32 MB SD card
• Hand strap
• USB cable
• AV cable
• CD-ROM
• User Manual
