Pentax Optio E60 Digital Point and Shoot Camera
Pentax Optio E60 Budget Digital Camera Offers Impressive Performance
The latest technology in the PENTAX Optio E60 offers photographers a stylish and affordable introduction to photography with a variety of easy-to-use features for producing high-resolution images.
The high 10-megapixel count is a simple example of the continued improvement in digital camera sensor design. Squeezing that many pixels onto the small sensor of a point and shoot camera with a projected retail price of under $US140 shows how good even a basic camera can be. To go with this increase in detail the Optio E60 boasts a light sensitivity or ISO range from 100 to 6400 suggesting less grainy pictures in poorly lit conditions. Even though the Pentax has a standard built in flash, they tend to produce flat uninteresting pictures so the wide ISO range offers the possibility of more interesting pictures in less than perfect light.
Auto Picture Mode
For the novice, or those in hurry, the Pentax Optio E60 has an Auto Picture mode that automatically selects optimal exposure settings for the camera from a list including Standard, Landscape, Portrait, Night Scene, Night Scene Portrait, Flower, and Sport modes. Photographers can also choose from a range of modes to take greater control and make fine adjustments with exposure compensation settings. If you want a simple to use camera then the Pentax Optio E60 fits the bill
People Pictures
One of the most common subjects for this class of camera is people, often in groups. The OptioE60 has a number of features to help photographers including Face Recognition. This function detects up to 10 faces in the picture and automatically sets the optimal exposure and focus. Another handy feature when photographing groups of people is blink detection that indicates if anyone in the image closed their eyes during the exposure
Wide View
A 3X optical zoom lens with a wide angle of view equivalent to 32mm to 96mm in 35mm format allows the Pentax OptioDE60 to capture images of landscapes as well as group photos in narrow spaces. And if you want even more it also has a panorama mode to capture really broad vistas.
Whoops
If you accidently delete a picture, the Pentax OptioE60 has an Image Recovery function to retrieve them.
Digital Shake Reduction
This works by raising the shutter speed to minimise the effects of any camera movement when photographing still images. The light sensitivity adjusts automatically (to as high as the high sensitivity of ISO 6400) to match the brightness of subjects to allow photography with fast shutter speeds and images with less blur. The Optio E60 now also features Movie SR to steady your video captures.
Simple Software
Bundled with the OptoE60 is a version of the popular ACDSee viewer/image management software for organising the pictures on a computer, including those using the latest Windows Vista.
The PENTAX Optio E60 will be available in a black finish in October for under US $140.00.
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