Pentax Optio A40

Pentax Optio S30

wasn’t quite responsible enough to be entrusted with a digital camera on a night out and used to buy me disposable ones instead… until Christmas 2004 when I received a Pentax Optio S30. This was armed with a promise from me to take good care of the camera and resist the urge to swing my bag around my bag, and consequently into a wall, while the camera was in said bag! The Pentax brand of cameras was created by the Asahi Optical Company of Japan which was formed back in 1919 as a producer of lenses for glasses. The Pentax name and company was created in 1957 and is not limited solely to the camera field but also film equipment, endoscopes and other optical measuring ...

Pentax Optio S

pentax that I keep in its new case (an Altoids tin! - yes it really is a good case!). I narrowed my choices down to the Optio S, the Casio Elixm E3 and the Canon ES400. I thought the Canon was a great camera that took great pictures but was a bit bulky and [costs] more. Just couldn't see spending that since I would not be printing out 8x10's that often (the 4 megapixel camera is better for these large pictures apparently, although the 3.2 should do just fine for the average person like me. I'm sure a photographer will notice the difference but I probably will not). The Casio was a good camera also but I didn't go with it because it uses a PENTAX lens ...

Pentax Optio S

I have never used a Digital Camera before in my life but I decided I needed one to go with internet auctions and for my own general use. I was looking for something pretty basic and something not too expensive so I went and brought a Praktica DCZ 2.2S. For someone who has never used anything like this it's perfect for getting started with, the internal memory was pretty limited only allowing 30 pictures but that is what you would expect with the item I brought. The picture quality is very good, much better if you use a memory card and it comes with it's own software so you can use the camera for all sorts of tasks. It comes with a self timer, PC Cam ...