Great Compact Camera (Pentax Optio S12)

Member Name: debby899

Product:	Pentax Optio S12
Date:	14/04/09 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: Face recognition, shake reduction and even got a slimming filter!

Disadvantages: Not found any yet

Always a sucker for a bargain, I recently saw this 12 megapixel camera on offer at half price on Amazon and couldn't resist.

It's an easy to use, pocket-sized 'point and shoot' camera that has some great features and it comes with a detailed manual which is over 200 pages long.

Although really compact its aluminium casing makes it feel quite solid and well built. I've taken pictures indoors and outside, and all have come out really well. Pictures of my dog are amazing when loaded onto my PC, I could see the individual hairs on his coat!

The 2.5 LCD display has anti-reflection coating which makes viewing photos easier in bright conditions. There's face recognition for up to 15 faces or you can focus on one individual face. The Digital Shake reduction works well and it has 21mb built in memory expandable with SD/SDHC card.

There are a number of different scene modes: Auto Picture, Program, Night Scene, Movie, Voice Recording, Landscape, Flower, Natural skin tone, Portrait, Half-length Portrait, Kids, Digital SR, Sport, Surf&Snow, Pet, Text, Food, Frame Composite, Green

The menus are well laid out and easy to use. You can just leave it in the 'Auto picture' mode and it will automatically select the best shooting settings or if you want to play around with the settings there are more options that most of us would ever want.

Once you've taken your pictures there a number of editing options available in playback mode some examples are resizing, cropping, colour filters, brightness adjustment, red eye removal. With the digital filter you can even slim or widen an image (will come in handy for those unflattering beach shots!)






Please Note: I also review on Amazon under username Big Bertha and this review (or a version of it) may appear on there

Summary: Great camera with lots of features

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