I had a chance to give my Optio S a fairly good workout yesterday evening and thought I'd share some of my opinions with y'all.
The auto white balance tends to go a bit on the blue side, but it's easily fixed by going to manual. Like most DDC's (damned digital cameras), the LCD is difficult to see in bright light. On the plus side, using photoshop and genuine fractals, 8x10 snapshots are, IMNHO, are excellent. Using either an Altoids tin or the Pentax leather case, it easily fits in a shirt pocket, but is more comfortable in a pants pocket. With a 128 Mb SD card, there are approximately 61 images available on the card, and the available feature of transferring about 5 images from the SD card to the 11 Mb internal memory. This is with the camera set on max resolution and minimum compression. Most impressive though, is battery life. It uses a proprieatary battery that is not much larger than a postage stamp. Yesterday evening I shot 37 images, most of them with flash, and used only about 1/2 of the charge in the battery. Overall, for use as a take anywhere snapshot camera, it is ideal. Bill
