Re: Optio33WR

2003-09-21 Thread Heiko Hamann 
Hi Graywolf,

on 21 Sep 03 you wrote in pentax.list:

>It ought to work fine for that. IIRC, it is water resistant to the
>dunkable point (brief immersion).

That's right. It is tested for a depth of 1m and 30 minutes of  
immersion. But it may not be operated under water. It is waterresistent  
class 7 JIS. A description of theese classes can be found here:



BTW - the lens is fixed. i.e. all moving parts of the zoom system are  
inside the camera.

I had the chance to handle the 33WR. It is very nice - good pictures and  
very fast for a compact digicam. It is ready for shooting only a second  
after being switched on. You can find two original pictures of the 33WR  
at the bottom of this German report:




Cheers, Heiko

Re: Optio33WR

2003-09-21 Thread graywolf 
It ought to work fine for that. IIRC, it is water resistant to the 
dunkable point (brief immersion). Hard to remember details as my 
friendly Pentax Rep extracted a promise not to reveal anything until 
after it was officially announced and it has been awhile.

Treena wrote:
 Has anyone seen the press release on this? It's on the Pentax USA site. It
seems to be the digital version of the weather-resistant film camera, and it
has a lot of features. My husband the cop is already interested since he
does photography on the job under lots of lousy conditions.

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graywolf
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Optio33WR

2003-09-21 Thread Treena 
 Has anyone seen the press release on this? It's on the Pentax USA site. It
seems to be the digital version of the weather-resistant film camera, and it
has a lot of features. My husband the cop is already interested since he
does photography on the job under lots of lousy conditions.