Pentax Optio E10 - UK Digital Camera Review

Pentax Optio E10 Review

The Pentax Optio E10 is an ideal camera for the digital beginner, it has simple controls to master and has preselected shooting modes.

With 6 megapixel CCD with primary colour filter, 3x optical, 4x digital zoom and PENTAX lens, the Pentax Optio E10 produces high quality results without its user needing to have already acquired a lot of experience.

Pentax Optio E10 Front
Pentax Optio E10 Back

The Pentax E10 focus system has TTL Auto Focus and Infinity Focus Mode with normal range of 0.5m to infinity and macro range of 0.05m to 0.4m/0.35m to 0.4m.

Incorporated within the compact Optio E10 are 8 shooting modes where settings have already been preselected to suit certain scenarios including; landscape, portrait, night, sport, simple, sepia, black/white. MOV format movies can be taken at 20fps with sound depending upon the capacity of the memory card.

The Pentax Optio E10 has an internal memory of 10 MB and takes SD memory cards. This camera is powered by 2x AA batteries and an AC adaptor is available as an optional extra.

Flash functions are; auto flash, flash on, flash off and red-eye reduction with ranges of 0.5m - 3.4m (wide) and 0.5m - 2.0m (tele).

Images can be viewed on the 2.4" LCD colour monitor with 110,000 pixels.

The Pentax E10 is PictBridge compatible and has compression modes of DPOF, DCF, JPEG (EXIF 2.2).


Pentax Optio E10 Specifications & Features

  • 6 Megapixels
  • 3 x Optical Zoom
  • 4 x Digital Zoom
  • 12 x Combined Zoom
  • 5cm Focusing Distance
  • 2.4" LCD Screen, approx. 110,000 pixels
  • Auto Flash, Flash On, Flash Off and Red-Eye Reduction Flash Modes
  • Maximum Image Size 2816 x 2112 Pixels
  • 320 x 240, 20fps Movies up to capacity of memory card
  • PictBridge Compatible
  • Secure Digital (SD) Card - 10MB Internal Memory
  • 2x Size-AA Alkaline or NiMH Batteries

Pentax Optio E10 User Reviews

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Reviewer: Brenda Osborne - UK
The battery life is absolutely rubbish - I cannot believe you can only take about 6 pics with ultra lasting batteries.

Am very unhappy with it.

Features
Rating 7/10
Image Quality
Rating 7/10
Usability
Rating 7/10

Reviewer: tracy smith - UK
well agree with the other ppl that bought this product very dissapointing

Features
Rating 1/10
Image Quality
Rating 1/10
Usability
Rating 1/10

Reviewer: Jo Trainor - UK
Very disappointing. Bought it in haste and am repenting at leasure. Rubbish battery life. Long delay with flash use and generally disapppointing pictures. Am planning to ditch after a just a few months.

Features
Rating 1/10
Image Quality
Rating 1/10
Usability
Rating 1/10

Reviewer: Leo - UK
For me this has been a very disappointing buy.

In its favour, it is compact and lightweight, has 6 megapixels and wasn't expensive.

Unfortunately though it doesn't take good photographs and that defeats the whole objective.

Features
Rating 3/10
Image Quality
Rating 3/10
Usability
Rating 3/10

Reviewer: Hilary Jackson - UK
The only good thing about this camera is its size.

- poor battery life
- delay too long to take the photo you wanted
- LCD images are not clear
- most pictures are blurry
- flash not efficient

I won't go on.

Features
Rating 1/10
Image Quality
Rating 1/10
Usability
Rating 1/10

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