With more than 12 million cameras being sold worldwide in the last two years alone, why shouldn’t camera companies, old and new, come up with compact cameras, each of which would be affordable and loaded with features? Pentax, a well known brand, thus comes out with the Pentax Optio E80, which is a 10 mp camera with a zoom range of 3x and other features that make up a good compact camera.
Design and FunctioningPowerful cameras can also be small and lightweight, which is what the Pentax Optio E80 tries to prove. It is available only in two conventional colours – Black and Silver – out of which black is rather popular one. This compact camera comes with more than 15 scene modes, including – Night Scene with Portrait, Surf and Snow and natural Skin Tone. The ISO values that it responds range from 100 to 6400. The maximum shutter speed that it offers is 1/2000th of a second and the minimum is 4 seconds. This lightweight camera – weighing a meager 125gms – comes with an internal memory of 6MB and is compatible with SD and SDHC cards.