Pentax Optio VS20 Camera Review
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It’s another compact digital camera around the bend. Launched on January 2012, and expected to throng the market in the month of February,Pentax Optio VS20 has a slew of promising and attractive features. Promising in the sense that, it is another ‘innovation’ that modifies the concept of ‘heavy and cumbersome’ DSLRs. Attractive in terms of all the specifications it is equipped with. Wasting no time, here is a brief look at the product right away.
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Pentax Optio VS20 Camera Features & Specifications
The thing which comes around all the time while admiring this Pentax Optio camera is the fact that, it has a second shutter button along with a zoom lever. These two specific features help in obtaining shots with portrait-orientation, making the process rather ‘graceful’ and effortless.
So basically, shots of high rise buildings and architectures of such sorts, frames involving fast motion as in sports, trees and monuments can be obtained comfortably. Yes, it does give the photographer a good grip! Apart from this, it has an optical zoom vouching to give up to 20X high-power. It comes with a socket for a tripod, which offers vertical support.
It has a 16.0 megapixel sensor (CCD), with an added mechanical sensor to stabilize shaking (shake reduction), to give images a clear appearance as opposed to blurry shots in low light. This Pentax Optio camera has a 3 inch LCD screen and an array of modes that can selected for various effects.
Compact Body Design
This is where avid photographers should steer their attention to. The specifications of thisPentax Optio product are one eye turner. From the simplest ones, one can say that it has a very compact body design. Coming to the image specifications here, it has an auto ISO ranging from 100 to 1600 rest being 100, 200,400,800, 1600, 3200 and 6400 respectively.
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Wide Focus Range
Has a sensor-shift image stabilisation with Good to Best quality of JPEG levels.It also comes with a total of 4 presets for White Balance. The optical aspects are herewith: a focus ranging from 28 to 560mm, with auto focus as well as manual focus, a 7.2X zoom (digital), with focus range varying from (normal to macro) 40 cm to 3 cm respectively.
Effective Pixels
Nevertheless it has no lens mounting options. The CCD Sensor has a maximum resolution of 4608X 3456, with 16.0 Effective Pixels. Pentax Optio VS20 has commendable videography features as well, with a motion JPEG format. Internal Storage capacity up to 16 MB and any of SD or SDXC or SDHC can be used as the type of storage. The shutter speed here ranges from a minimum 4 seconds to a maximum 1/2500 seconds.
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Conclusion
This whole littlePentax Optio enigma packed in a meagre 235 gm (0.52 lb), is sure to be a rage quite soon. As spoken by its high end feature profile, it is a great substitute to state-of-the-art DSLRs to considerably significant extent.
Price Of Pentax Optio VS20 Camera
Currently priced at $249.95, it is available in two chic and sassy colours, anelegant Brilliant White and a suave Noble Black. One can definitely go for it, owing to its ‘bang on’ specifications.
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