Pentax hasn't really come out that good in comparison tests when it comes to their recent P&S models, at least not in the tests I've read, and my own personal experience with the 750Z, which is also a model that sold somewhat on it's looks, was not too impressive.
On the W80 (a model I was curious about) the dpreview reads, in part: "With the W80 Pentax has managed to improve performance in some areas while losing speed in others, resulting in a middle-of-the-pack overall result. It was one of the slowest focusing cameras in this group, taking 1.3 seconds to achieve focus lock (only the Olympus Tough 6000 was slower)." "What do you get when you take a small sensor set behind a wide-range zoom lens and increase the resolution? The answer in this case appears to be that you take a camera that produced quite good image quality and turn it into one of the worst in this group test." "With the increase in resolution has come increased noise levels, the overall results from the W80 were not as successful as the W60. There are ISO 3200 and 6400 settings, but with the increase in high ISO noise they are even less useful than on the W60. "The W80 performed much like the W60 in the water where it was not the best but certainly not the worst performer in terms of image quality, with the sometimes clunky menu system proving to be an obstacle to efficient picture taking." Pentax wouldn't be my first choice for a P&S, unless the given model stood above it's peers. Tom C. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:31 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > My bet is this is a collection of off the shelf parts on a generic frame > with a custom shell. The only saving grace is the lens might be genuine > Pentax, but that's not guaranteed either. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
