In a commodity market nothing really. Everybody does the same thing
these days. Only the really top of the line cameras are likely to be
anything particularly special or peculiar to the firm who's name appears
on the case.
On 3/23/2010 10:27 AM, Tom C wrote:
What's a reputation worth?
Tom C.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, P. J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's not actually built by Pentax anyway. There are a
number other cameras on the market in this class with the same general shape
and control layout. It's probably a comodity produced in someone else'
factory, to Pentax's general specifications. Like most P&S digital cameras
these days.
On 3/22/2010 2:40 PM, Margus Männik wrote:
Optio is I-10 like a fairy tale princess - a real beauty, but not too
smart. Not as dumb as Amazon reviewer said, just ... a bit retarded.
BR, Margus
Joe Wilensky wrote:
I really wanted to like this camera, but what a disappointment ... this
is the review I put up on amazon.com. I'm surprised there's nothing else out
there yet on this camera at all, considering the interest it sparked around
the Web when the design and images of it were released back in January. But
there's only my review on the black one and (oddly and separately) one
person's review on the white one at amazon.com ...
"Wow, I wanted to love this camera ... the aesthetics/design got me as
soon as I saw the first images released back in January. I have enough old
Pentaxes (including an Auto 110 Super) to really appreciate the retro look,
styling and old-style logo. The form factor was actually quite nice, with a
good balance, small but really nice right-hand grip, and a pleasant grippy
texture. It was a bit light (plasticky) for its size.
But the picture-taking experience -- slow, slow, slow, at least by 2010
standards. I think the 2004 PowerShot I have is faster. Flash photos were
terribly slow because of the preflash, which seemed to add an extra second
and a half to the process. And images were soft overall, but softer as you
zoom anywhere near the telephoto end. Noise and speckling was apparent at
nearly all ISO speeds. As far as positives about image quality, in bright
daylight, at 80 ISO (the sensor's base speed), images weren't bad and the
lens did show good flare resistance.
Videos were technically HD, but at quality poor enough that it didn't
seem to be worth the higher spec. Zoom in video mode is only available as
digital zoom, which degrades image quality immediately.
Sliding battery cover was very fragile and seemed prone to become
misaligned and I was very, very careful with it; I would always worry about
its durability.
I didn't get to check out any of the really fancy features like pet face
recognition. Human face recognition seemed to work reasonably well, though
the photos weren't necessarily better exposed because of it. In fact, basic
flash photos/snapshots seemed washed out, with very muted colors.
All in all, a very big disappointment. I knew it had fairly average
camera specs (fairly run-of-the mill point-and-shoot specs for a 2010 p&s)
with a cool design, but the photo quality was such a step backward from
anything else I'm using today that I had to return it."
Joe
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