{"id":2237,"date":"2003-06-01T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=469"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:52:38","slug":"re-pentax-optio-s-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/01\/re-pentax-optio-s-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Pentax Optio S review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few updates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsgodigital.nl\/webpages\/firstlook\/pentax\/optioS\/pentax_OptioS_uk.html\">LetsGoDigital<\/a> has some very nice pictures of the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Taking pictures at the party yesterday mostly worked fine. I <em>did<\/em> confuse the power button with the shutter button twice, and sometimes the flash-precharge time seemed overly long; also, the LCD display blanks out for a second while the flash fires. One image was very blurry &#8211; I think inadvertently turned the flash off, so the camera shifted to a longer exposure time. The rest were mostly fine, if not too sharp, and a little darker than I normally like. I tried out the movie clip feature but the room was too dark for that. I took some pictures under incandescent lights but the auto white balance didn&#8217;t work too well.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, downloading the pictures to our host&#8217;s Windows XP laptop worked fine with no additional installation. Coincidentally, he&#8217;d just gotten a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/specs\/Olympus\/oly_c4000z.asp\">Olympus C-4000<\/a>; it was striking to compare them side-by-side, the Olympus looks big and clunky. At maximum resolution, the Olympus takes a 2288&#215;1712-pixel picture compared to the Optio&#8217;s 2048&#215;1536. Other features are roughly equivalent, but the Olympus weighs 400g compared to the Optio&#8217;s 115g!<\/p>\n<p>Reading the manual I discovered other goodies. The movie clip mode takes a maximum of about 370 frames (30 secs at 12.33 fps). However, one can divide the frame rate by 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 to make time-lapse movies; at the last rate, this means 50 minutes are compressed into 30 seconds. This should be fun; I&#8217;ll have to find my old pocket tripod for testing this. Images can be cropped to a smaller size inside the camera, copied between the internal memory and the SD card, and b&amp;w, sepia, and colored filters can be applied.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as possible, I plan to buy a spare battery, the AC adapter and a case for the camera; none of these were available at the store when I ordered it, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few updates. LetsGoDigital has some very nice pictures of the camera. Taking pictures at the party yesterday mostly worked fine. I did confuse the power button with the shutter button twice, and sometimes the flash-precharge time seemed overly long; also, the LCD display blanks out for a second while the flash fires. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}