Pentax Optio 50L - UK Digital Camera Review

Pentax Optio 50L Review

The compact Pentax Optio 50L has 5 megapixel CCD, 3x optical and 4x digital zoom, is easy to use and produces great results.

Pentax Optio 50L Front
Pentax Optio 50L Back

This camera has autofocus with a normal (wide) range of 20" - infinity and a macro (wide) range of 2.4" - infinity. The Pentax Optio 50L is powered by 2x AA batteries, has a built in memory of 12 MB and takes MMC and SD cards. Compression type is JPEG, EXIF 2.2.

The Pentax 50L has a built in flash with flash off, auto flash, red-eye reduction and fill-in flash with ISO speeds of auto/50/100/200. White balance includes the options of daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent, and sunset as preset functions together with auto.

The LCD is 2.5" with approximately 115,000 pixels and movies can be shot in AVI and Motion JPEG format at 20fps. Length of movie will depend upon memory capacity available.

Pentax Optio 50L Specifications & Features

  • 5 Megapixels
  • 3 x Optical Zoom
  • 4 x Digital Zoom
  • 12 x Combined Zoom
  • 6cm Focusing Distance
  • 2.5" LCD Screen, approx. 115,000 pixels
  • Auto Flash, Flash On, Flash Off and Red-Eye Reduction Flash Modes
  • Maximum Image Size 2560 x 1920 Pixels
  • 320 x 240 Movies up to capacity of memory card
  • PictBridge Compatible
  • Secure Digital (SD) Card - 12MB Internal Memory
  • 2x Size-AA Alkaline or NiMH Batteries
  • Approximate Weight 190g

Pentax Optio 50L User Reviews

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Reviewer: Basil - Russian Federation
It's a reliable simple workhorse camera. Good for a beginner, I agree. Been beginning with that.
It has just as much features as it is needed to take a picture, no more... although there could've been more Image quality is from middle to worse, especially when the lightning is poor.
Weak flash makes it of a very limited usability.
Good one to start with, switchon-takeashot camera Although I've seroius thoughts of getting something more sofisticated after 2 years of usage of 50L.

Features
Rating 4/10
Image Quality
Rating 4/10
Usability
Rating 8/10
Reviewer: Me - UK
The sound quality on movies on this camera is poor to useless, with no playback with the actual camera itself.

Features
Rating 1/10
Image Quality
Rating 7/10
Usability
Rating 3/10
Reviewer: Eve - UK
I had hoped for a little more from this camera but, overall, it proves to be pretty average and nothing particularly stands out.

It is a sturdy little camera and very easy to use but nothing special

Features
Rating 6/10
Image Quality
Rating 6/10
Usability
Rating 8/10
Reviewer: Michael - UK
A beginner might enjoy using this camera but it doesn't really offer anything to anyone with experience. It has a good size LCD but this is not clear in bright lights, the flash is weak and, because of the ISO rating, indoor shots are not very successful. An absolute beginner might make good use of this.

Features
Rating 4/10
Image Quality
Rating 4/10
Usability
Rating 4/10
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