Pentax Optio S55 Digital Camera Review
August 19, 2006
The new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera has something really
special in it. It features a wide range of highly advanced and sophisticated features. The design of the new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is also very attractive. The new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is a very compact digital camera and is very easy to use and understand its techniques. The new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is widely accepted, appreciated and used by the people of UK.
Best of Pentax Optio S55
The new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is a 5.36 mega pixel camera that supports a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels. It also features a CCD sensor chip of size 1/2.5 inch that records the total amount of light falling on it and captures the image you want to shoot with the best possible clarity and sharpness. The Pentax Optio S55 digital camera supports an optical zoom of 3x that indicates the optical zoom capacity of the camera and also a digital zoom of 2.6x which identifies to the digital zoom capacity of the camera, that is the number of times the picture can be blown up using the digital technology. The camera also features auto focus that supports modes like 5-point AF, Spot AF and Infinity Landscape Mode and it also features manual focus. The focus system used in the Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is the TTL contrast detection auto focus system. The Pentax Optio S55 digital camera also features an internal flash having flash modes like Auto, Fill-in, Red eye reduction, off and slow flash. The new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera features a big 2.5-inch LCD monitor at the backside of the camera with an LCD 
resolution of 115000 pixels. You can also take movie clips with the new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera. The video resolution supported by the camera is 320 x 240 (QVGA) at a speed of 30 frames per second. The maximum length of the movie that can be taken with the Pentax Optio S55 digital camera depends up on the free memory size of the camera. Other supported features of the Pentax Optio S55 include:
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- Built-in Microphone
- Built-in Speaker
- Tripod Mount
- Self-Timer
- Histogram display
- Audio-capture
- USB
- PC Connection
- PictBridge compatible
- Video out
The weight of the new Pentax Optio S55 digital camera is only 135 grams in spite of all the modern features of a digital camera integrated in it.
Pentax Optio 50 Digital Camera Review
August 18, 2006
The latest model from Pentax is the new and improved Pentax Optio 50 digital camera. As Pentax introduced the new model the features incorporated in it have improved a lot and the rates have gone really down. The new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is considered as the cheapest digital camera from among the other digital cameras of the same range. This new model has been created for the beginners. This new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is very easy to use and its functionalities are really simple to understand. Moreover the Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is lightweight and compact. This new digital camera also delivers the best sharp images.
Best images with the best camera
The new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera features a large 1.8-inch TFT LCD display screen with a support for 130,000 pixels. The new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is a 5-mega-pixel CCD sensor digital camera that has an optical zoom of 3x and a 4x digital zoom. A primary colour filter balances this CCD sensor. And with the help of this colour filter you can get high-resolution images in brilliant and lively colours. The camera is still type digital camera with a built in zoom lens and auto focus. It also supports auto exposure and auto flash features also. The Pentax Optio 50 digital camera also features a self-timer movie mode where the shooting time is approximately 1 second. The new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera features an SD memory card with a built in memory of just about 12 MB. This digital camera also supports a range of playback modes, various camera settings, and white balance, shooting modes and also supports languages like English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch and Russian. The Pentax Optio 50 digital camera also supports interfaces like AV output terminal, USB terminal, DC input terminal Video Output - Compatible with NTSC and PAL formats.
The physical aspects of the camera
The Pentax Optio 50 digital camera also supports PictBridge that helps you to take the prints of the images you have taken directly without the use of a computer. All you have to do is connect the digital camera to a compatible printer through the USB port supported. The new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is a highly compact and lightweight digital camera having a height of 61 mm, a width of 27 mm and a length of 91-mm and above all the device weighs only 130 grams. The body of the new Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is mainly made of silver plastic along with a strip of metal flashing on the top edge of the camera by the main command-dial and the shutter release. The Pentax Optio 50 digital camera is powered by 2 AA batteries, which reduce the production cost, as the batteries are not expensive.
