On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Keith Whaley wrote: > Which reminds me. Am I the _only_ PDMLer who is impressed with the > little OptioS?
It's a cute little camera, but I'm not overawed. > 35-105mm equivalent (3x) zoom Pretty much everything these days has that. It's impressive in a camera this small, though. Pentax has been doing innovative things with their zoom lenses lately, like the switch-over design in their Espio 150SL and 170SL compact film cameras. > TTL center and spot metering The current Optios have this, as do the cameras of several other manufacturers. > ISO settings for 50, 100 and 200 All this means is that Pentax had to go to ISO 50 to get the same noise reduction other cameras have at 100. :) Personally, I'd rather see a good quality ISO 400 setting. > A Macro to 2.4"! (Super-Macro mode) Sounds good, but practically every Nikon and some Olympuses and Sonys will focus down to 1-4cm away. > Actual image viewfinder (that's what they said!) Marketing. You're still looking through a window just above the lens. The optical viewfinder zooms to show you how far you're zooming in, but that's different from showing you exactly what you're getting. chris
