Pentax Optio W10 6MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
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Digital product summary information
Manufacturer: PentaxModel: 19033
Color: Silver
Product features:
- 6.0-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 14 x 19-inch prints
- 3x optical zoom; 2.5-inch LCD display
- Capture movies in QuickTime motion JPEG (640 x 480) at 30 frames per second; built-in movie editing functions
- High-performance 0.6-second start-up and 0.05-second shutter lag
- Powered by Lithium-ion battery DL-I8 (battery, charger, and AC cord included); stores images on SD memory cards
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Digital camera reviews of Pentax Optio W10 6MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom
Digital camera Review: Takes great pictures........maybe a bit sensitive to damage
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had this camera for about a year and a half. While it worked right it was a great camera. Recently the backlight quit working while in camera mode. It still took fantastic pictures but you could not see your subject in the screen on the back (well you could see it but it wasn't lit up). Local camera shop charged 30 bucks for estimate...of course factory repair issue. Factory repair was 160.00 including the thirty already put down for estimate. Normally for a 250.00 camera I would never consider paying so much for a repair but a friend of mine wanted the camera and so he paid to fix it (couldn't buy one new for what he paid for the repair and there would be a warranty on it too). I don't know if they changed the seals as a part of that repair....they better have for all that money! It came back better than it was, I can only assume they've improved the firmware or the motherboard itself as that was most likely what they did, replaced the whole insides. I know it's the same outer camera because of a blemish on the outer body. This is a fantastic camera for its size, like all the small ones, the flash is only good for nearby shots, not good for a group picture etc. but it does far better than many small cameras like this that I've played with. The sensor on this camera does better than most small ones at high iso (usually high iso is so grainy you can't stand it on these little ones) but I still set it down to 200 as much as possible it improves the pictures a lot (you can also run noise ninja on the shots to improve them even more). The movies this little thing takes are excellent but they are quicktime file format and for me using xp 64 bit apple has not seen fit to release a 64bit quicktime player so I can only play the movies on a machine with 32 bit xp or probably vista. The options offered on the camera are great, it even has onboard image editing......which would be really useful if you carry a mini printer around and want to print straight off the camera. There are two newer incarnations of this camera the w20/w30. I do not like the way the battery door is arranged on this unit, it's on the bottom and it's a bit easy to open accidentally, on the w30 the battery door has been moved to the side, probably a slightly more intelligent location. The competing product to this is made by Olympus and is about 80 bucks more no matter where you shop, the olympus product seems to have more anti-shake tech built into it. I've owned Pentax film bodies in the past, only one gave me huge problems so they generally make good products. I think what messed me up with this camera was taking it with me in the car and something may have fallen on it but otherwise it is a very sturdy camera and I had no problems with leaks as others seem to have experienced. I've seen reviews where folks put this thing in boiling water and it survived so it's a pretty sturdy little beast. I can't decide yet to get a w30 or give the olympus a try, all I can say is read consumer reviews and form your own opinion, the only turn off for the olymps is it uses xd cards and I really don't want yet another flash memory format to deal with (they're also more expensive for the size).
Pros:
Battery life is pretty fair, extra batteries available cheaply on Ebay.
Movie mode with antishake
Onboard picture editing (light/dark/some basic effects)
Large view screen
SD card
Tough/waterproof
Cons:
I don't like battery door placement (bottom)
After a year and a half had a problem, expensive repair
Like someone else mentioned, to maintain waterproof integrity you must have seals changed occasionally
Two newer models w20/w30 with more megapixels
Flash only good for close subjects (that's pretty normal)
Antishake only works for movies apparently
Typically slow on the uptake, not good for fast action
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