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Pentax Optio E30

Pentax Optio E30

User Rating: Pentax Optio E30 (23 reviews)
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cnet.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 2.95 star(s) Pentax Optio E30

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The Pentax Optio E30 offers a friendly, perky interface, a simple control layout and an automatic 'green' mode to make it easy to start snapping. A budget price and use of SD cards and AA batteries make it ideal for children

Review Verdict: The budget Pentax Optio E30 is a dumpy point-and-shoot compact camera with a paucity of features and average picture quality, but its cheerful interface and child-friendly attibutes make it fun to use

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Pros: Cheap ; simple to use ;
Cons: Patchy auto focus ; bulbous shape ;
digicamera.com Professional Review.

Digital Camera Magazine: Camera review: Pentax Optio E30

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The Optio E30 is the latest in Pentax's E-Series of inexpensive entry-level compact digital cameras. Those who have been following the Optio series may be a bit confused as this E-Series model seems to pick up where the Optio M20 left off. The M20's succe

Review Verdict: Every lineup has an entry-level camera, and among the Pentax Optios, the E30 is it. You pay less for it, and you get less. There are fewer features, fewer adjustments, and fewer amenities. And some features don't work as smoothly as they do on the pricier

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QuickTake:

Cons: Some menus and functions are buried or not marked, Choppy digital zoom in movie mode, No anti-blur, AF illuminator, or super-macro, Low 110k pixel resolution LCD
laptopmag.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Pentax Optio E30

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Simple controls make this beginner's digicam a contender.

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reghardware.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.75 star(s) Pentax Optio E30 compact digital camera

Comments:
With the release of the Optio E30 camera, Pentax has provided consumers with high resolution at a small cost.

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trustedreviews.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 2.5 star(s) Pentax Optio E30

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Another sub-£100 compact comes under the spotlight

Review Verdict: The Pentax Optio E30 has little to recommend it besides its price. Build quality and handling are of an acceptable standard, but performance and features do not match up to similarly priced models from other brands. Optical quality is good, but let down b

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digital photography blog Professional Review.

Pentax Optio E30

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The Pentax Optio E30 is a new compact digital camera from Pentax that features a 3x Optical Zoom, 2.4 inch LCD screen, 7.1 megapixel image sensor and 11 megabytes of internal memory. The Pentax Optio E30 is powered by a AA battery and will retail for $149

Review Verdict: The Pentax Optio E30 is powered by a AA battery and will retail for $149.95 and should hit stores in February

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pocket-lint.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Pentax Optio E30 digital camera

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- The Optio E30 is a thoroughbred budget model but with a resolution remarkable at this price and unheard of only a couple of years ago. Key features include a nice 36-108mm 3x optical zoom lens, a 2.4-inch colour screen, 3-point AF system, SDHC and SD st

Review Verdict: Budget it may be but it's certainly worth a lot for anyone requiring an easy to use but high-resolution budget snapper

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QuickTake:

Pros: Image quality, ease of use, price, white balance control, scene modes
Cons: Focusing, shutter lag, build
dpreview.com Professional Review.

Pentax Optio E30

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Just three days in to 2007 and Pentax becomes the first company to announce a new digital camera. The Optio E30 is a body re-design and feature upgrade to Pentax's affordable (low end) E series digital cameras, it features a seven megapixel CCD sensor, th
whatdigitalcamera.com Professional Review.

Pentax Optio E30

Comments:
A good specification at an affordable price makes the E30 an attractive option

Review Verdict: The Pentax Optio E30 is a good budget option, but in this case you get what you pay for. You may soon want to upgrade to another model from the range.

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QuickTake:

Pros: Price, Design ;
Cons: Slow to shoot in auto mode, LCD hard to see in bright light, Inconsistency in exposures ;
digitalcamerainfo.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.25 star(s) Pentax Optio E30 First Impressions Review

Comments:
TThe Pentax Optio E30 is a 7.1-megapixel compact camera with a 3x zoom and an entry-level price: Pentax set the minimum advertised price at $149.95. We looked at a preproduction unit at the Consumer Electronics Show and ran through its features noting the

Review Verdict: The Pentax Optio E30 is a very inexpensive, very simple camera. The appropriate market for it is the price-conscious non-photographer - someone who wants the occasional snapshot, but wants to avoid the details of photography, and doesn't have ambitions to

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QuickTake:

Pros: - Price: $149.95 isn't much - Controls are laid out well and easy to use - Manual white balance - a good feature to retain on a bare-bones camera
Cons: - It's ugly - Lack of manual controls - Poorly sealed against dirt and moisture - AA batteries fall out when changing memory card
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Overall Rating: 9.1
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