Hi im Andy, im a university student currently studying physical geography at Wolverhampton Universi...
Hi im Andy, im a university student currently studying physical geography at Wolverhampton University. I have a large knowledge on cars, movies, music and football and hope my reviews will prove informative!
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The Pentax Optio M20 was given to me as a present on christmas 2006. While i am not a passionate photographer, i do enjoy taking pictures and wanted a camera to take pictures of university nights out as well as my travels around the world.
The camara is packed full of features for taking photos such as portrait mode, sports photo mode, pet photo mode, food photo mode plus many many more.
It also has an excellent blur reduction facility which is very good for me as i have quite unsteady hands.
The maximum picture quality setting for the camera is 7 megapixels but this can be lowered to allow for more photographs to be stored on the memory card at the expense of quality, although not a huge quality sacrafice. However i have used it on the 7 megapixel setting and have had ample room for all the photographs i ever need to store at one time (Approx 300 capacity on 7 megapixel setting i think).
For taking photographs outside the camera really is superb with nearly every photograph taken coming out crystal clear thanks partly to the blur reduction facility on my part!
However on indoor photographs i have found the quailty of photographs to be average. Whilst i accept that indoor picture quality is never as impressive as outdoors, i feel this camera lacks indoor picture quailty when compared to rivals.
Another annoying feature with this camera is the fact it doesnt come with a carrying case so i had to obtain one from elsewhere.
To anyone who is thinking about buying this camera i would reccomend using Duracell or Energizer batteries as i have found with any other cheaper brands it literally takes only a few photographs to completely drain the batteries but with Duracell and ENergizer the battery life is good.
Overall a very good camera for those on a budget.
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(+) Ultra-compact dimensions, fun automatic tools, good performance for the asking price (-) Cluttered menu layout, camera buttons are scarce, specs are almost identical to the Samsung ES15
Jul 17th, 2007
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