Hi,
My name is Vicky and Im 20 years old. My partner and I are more often than not skint so we do a...
Hi,
My name is Vicky and Im 20 years old. My partner and I are more often than not skint so we do a lot of shopping around before we buy anything, so I hope my reviews are useful to you.
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I spent about 6 hours reading camera reviews in magazines and online before purchasing a Pentax Optio s50. I paid £160 in the summer of 2005, which was a bargain then and it's probably a lot cheaper now.
The Good points:
I would call this camera a professional compact, it is small enough to fit in your pocket but with enough professional touches to make it a tool rather than a toy. For example you can attach it to a tripod, a lot of small silver compacts don't have that ability and show them up as being 'fun snappers' rather than for someone who cares about the photos they take.
Sturdy build; all metal case. Decent weight to it. Not cheap and plastic!
Extensive modes of operation from full auto 'point and click' to full manual control of Focus, light modes, exposure time up to 4 seconds, light sensitivity (ISO between 50 and 400), Image sharpness/contrast/compression amount, image size up to 5 mega pixels. Basically you can control just about everything a good amateur photographer would need. I havn't found myself wanting to adjust anything that I wasn't able to.
The focus is particuarly good in Macro mode, producing very sharp close ups. Long range focus is acceptable but not astounding.
The Bad points;
From switching on to taking a photo takes too long for capturing fast events, you need to be ready with your camera out if you are shooting for action sports and so on. It takes about a second for the camera to turn on, a second as it adjusts the light and exposure settings and half a second to find focus.
Not a biggie but still slightly annoying; when you plug the camera into the usb port you need to switch it on for it to show up. This means while you are transferring your pictures across your batteries are running down, what happens is that you forget to turn it off again and then voila! low batteries next time you use your camera.
Flash lighting is pretty poor. The 'sweet spot' where the picture is not either under or over exposed is small. Between 4 and 8 meters away is good, out of the range and it deteriates fast. Also the flash is very close to the lens, this creates harsh shadows and flattens the image as it is lit head on, this is just a down side of compacts in general.
Overall I am very happy with the camera, it serves me incredibly well. Will purchase from Pentax again.
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Advantages: Solid, light, reliable, good-looking, easy to use, a name you can trust Disadvantages: Guzzles batteries (as they all do), a bit slow to start up
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