Impressive quality (meanwhile gently tapping on the W20 in the side pocket of my trousers). What light set-up do you use?
Henk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brendan MacRae > Sent: 20 December, 2007 12:05 AM > To: pdml > Subject: GESO - In praise of the Pentax Optio -10,000+ clicks > > > Hello gang. I thought I'd share my thoughts on my > great pocket digital. > > My little birthday/fathers day gift from my wife, the > Pentax Optio W10, has proved to be quite the > workhorse. I recently reset the image counter and have > clocked another 1,131 images on this dynamo of a point > and shoot. Certainly no record but impressive, IMHO. > > I had intended on using the camera as a handy pocket > shooter but I've come to use the camera in my business > to shoot for a client who sells vintage watches > online. The images end up only as 40~50KB sized > 640x480 images for his purposes, but the camera > produces quality stuff that in some cases look very, > very good. It has so far paid for itself 15 times > over. Did I mention it shoots video underwater? > > So, I put together a gallery of 67 images that I've > done over the last several months that showcase the > terrific image quality that I've been enjoying from > this great little camera. The gallery is in no > particular order and represents a good cross-section > of objects I've been working with. Should be fun for > any of you who are interested in vintage timepieces. > > Cheers! (image size ~150Kb, best viewed by hitting f11 > for full frame web page views in IE and Firefox) > http://www.primelensphoto.com/watches2007/index.html -Brendan PS - I'm throwing the "Leica" watch in there to keep the thread off-brand but on-topic. ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.