What's a reputation worth?
Tom C.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's not actually built by Pentax anyway. There are a
> number other cameras on the market in this class with the same general shape
> and control layout. It's probably a comodity produced in someone else'
> factory, to Pentax's general specifications. Like most P&S digital cameras
> these days.
>
> On 3/22/2010 2:40 PM, Margus Männik wrote:
>>
>> Optio is I-10 like a fairy tale princess - a real beauty, but not too
>> smart. Not as dumb as Amazon reviewer said, just ... a bit retarded.
>>
>> BR, Margus
>>
>>
>> Joe Wilensky wrote:
>>>
>>> I really wanted to like this camera, but what a disappointment ... this
>>> is the review I put up on amazon.com. I'm surprised there's nothing else out
>>> there yet on this camera at all, considering the interest it sparked around
>>> the Web when the design and images of it were released back in January. But
>>> there's only my review on the black one and (oddly and separately) one
>>> person's review on the white one at amazon.com ...
>>>
>>> "Wow, I wanted to love this camera ... the aesthetics/design got me as
>>> soon as I saw the first images released back in January. I have enough old
>>> Pentaxes (including an Auto 110 Super) to really appreciate the retro look,
>>> styling and old-style logo. The form factor was actually quite nice, with a
>>> good balance, small but really nice right-hand grip, and a pleasant grippy
>>> texture. It was a bit light (plasticky) for its size.
>>>
>>> But the picture-taking experience -- slow, slow, slow, at least by 2010
>>> standards. I think the 2004 PowerShot I have is faster. Flash photos were
>>> terribly slow because of the preflash, which seemed to add an extra second
>>> and a half to the process. And images were soft overall, but softer as you
>>> zoom anywhere near the telephoto end. Noise and speckling was apparent at
>>> nearly all ISO speeds. As far as positives about image quality, in bright
>>> daylight, at 80 ISO (the sensor's base speed), images weren't bad and the
>>> lens did show good flare resistance.
>>>
>>> Videos were technically HD, but at quality poor enough that it didn't
>>> seem to be worth the higher spec. Zoom in video mode is only available as
>>> digital zoom, which degrades image quality immediately.
>>> Sliding battery cover was very fragile and seemed prone to become
>>> misaligned and I was very, very careful with it; I would always worry about
>>> its durability.
>>>
>>> I didn't get to check out any of the really fancy features like pet face
>>> recognition. Human face recognition seemed to work reasonably well, though
>>> the photos weren't necessarily better exposed because of it. In fact, basic
>>> flash photos/snapshots seemed washed out, with very muted colors.
>>>
>>> All in all, a very big disappointment. I knew it had fairly average
>>> camera specs (fairly run-of-the mill point-and-shoot specs for a 2010 p&s)
>>> with a cool design, but the photo quality was such a step backward from
>>> anything else I'm using today that I had to return it."
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>
>>
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