Customer Reviews

Pentax Optio T30 7.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

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4 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(3)

 

 

This is the worst camera I ever owned. The shutter speed is so slow that if you take a photo of a person walking in the room, you get an empty room. By the time the camera clicks you missed the moving image even if you change the speed or type of image, same result...awful..I purchased from here through Beach Camera and couldn't return it because I had sent in the rebate...UGH...Don't buy.

this camera is horrible. i havent even had it for year and first the lens got stuck and we had to get that fixed. Now the battery wont even recharge. I would never get this again.

Very fast delivery.... The camera works so great and the pics are outstanding.

The touch screen feature is just awesome and the 3 inches screen is the best.

Thanks

RSF

Photos from this camera are outstanding. Colors are bright and vivid. The camera is simple to use, waterproof, and small enough to carry with you all the time. My only complaint is the shutter lag time. I would recommend this to anybody interested in underwater photography.

I just went on a trip and took many pictures, I usually shake a lot when I take pictures and with this camera, I took all my pictures and my shaking did not do anything. It is so easy to use and the big 3" screen in the back makes vewing the pictures a lot mor fun. The videos are of very good quality. I am very glad that I bought this camera.

This is the worst digital camera i've ever owned.

Flaws:

1. autofocus is slow and in about 50% of cases will focus on the wrong central object. This is evident because small bracket signs bracket the object that the camera is focusing on. So it is readily apparent whether your subject agrees with the camera's. About half the time it won't. Don't try to just snap a picture without seeing where the brackets are located or you will be severely disappointed.

2. The shutter lag is unforgivably slow. You have to half depress the button to see what it is focusing on, this takes about 0.5 sec, and then depress fully to take your picture, another 0.4 sec. By this time your subject is long gone...

3. The autoflash is horrible. This is in part a consequence of numbers 1 and 2 above. Because the autofocus is often mistargeted and slow, the flash will be tailored for the wrong subject.

4. Indoor photography is blurred or overexposed. Again, because the autofocus is so slow, if you try to take a simple flash photo, it will either shut off the flash entirely or overexpose your photo. Forget low light pictures.

5. The touch screen is absolutely pointless. Program mode is also pointless since low light photos are so grainy as to be unviewable.

6. The cycling time between 2 photos is extremely slow. If you are trying to capture several photos of a meaningful scene, forget it. Just take 1 and hope it is in focus.

7. The battery is proprietary, rather short lived, and slow to charge in the provided charger. So your option is to shell out $40 for another battery.

Pros:

In outdoor full light conditions the pictures are satisfactory. But not at dusk or night time, and forget trying to take cool night time outdoor pictures.

Again, this is the worst digital camera i've ever owned. There are identically priced cameras from Canon and Kodak which are vastly superior. And i'm going back to them. Or maybe i'll try a Casio. I had a 3mp Kodak ez-share which i hated but was much much better than this product. if anyone from pentax wants to make up for this travesty they can contact me at [...]

Please avoid this device.

The Pentax is a very good product. When I order this stuff paid an aditional charge for a special delivery to recived it in 3 days, but it did not. So the person that supouse to take in Fl, should return to Caracas and it cost me aditional expenses