pentax optio
It is one of the earliest mass market examples of a digital and encompasses the bulk of pentax’s lower end camera sales. The camera has megabytes of internal memory forget to put your sd card an added cost option in and you’re not completely out of luck. I’m glad I waited to see what the pentax designers had come up with.
The replacement for the wr is now the optio wp which cleverly stands for water proof.
The pentax optio w is available from around this makes it one of the cheapest waterproof digital cameras currently available. Pentax have this to say about the camera the optio w series of cameras are waterproofed for underwater photography without requiring a waterproof case or other accessories. The optio w also features the face recognition function and macro photography mode to allow image capture as close as cm from a subject. But what about budget cameras are they a good thing or just cheap and nasty the pentax optio e is budget through and through.
The menu is fairly straightforward but if that is enough to fox you then just turn the top dial to the ’simple’ setting and your options are simply limited to changing image size and quality. Blickenstorfer the optio m is the latest model in pentax’s m series of nicely equipped yet affordable ultra compact digital cameras. Those familiar with the optio series and naming system may be a bit confused though as the m series is no longer the entry level lowest cost faction of the optio family.
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