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Comment by johnriley posted on Future Retro? at 26/01/2012 - 09:18
Apart from the price, I think the translation looks pretty good.
The camera looks stylish as well, which always helps.
The camera looks stylish as well, which always helps.
Comment by johnriley posted on Rumour!!!!!!!!! at 25/01/2012 - 17:35
I guess it gets the message across!
Comment by johnriley posted on You know you've been spending too long looking at this forum when you have dreams like this at 25/01/2012 - 17:08
A translation:
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Pentax launches Optio VS20, a new digital compact camera as well as an additional powerful 20x optical zoom with a focal length from wide angle to super telephoto and macro, have an additional trigger button and a specially designed zoom lever which simplifies shooting with the camera in a vertical position.
Its compact body is packed with advanced features, including 16 effective megapixels for crisp images with high resolution, powerful 20x optical zoom and an extra large, bright anti-glare treated, dirt resistant 3 "LCD color screen. It also has an additional shutter release button and zoom lever gives a good, steady grip, even when shooting in vertical position. The images on the LCD screen rotates automatically and the camera has a tripod thread for vertical mounting.
The new setting Handheld Night Snap takes great pictures with minimal noise at low light.
"Pentax Optio VS20 is a universal high performance camera that can handle multiple motives and situations than most conventional cameras - from spontaneous snapshots to travel photos and sports photography," says Helge Rose at Focus Nordic, Pentax Nordic general agent.
Key Features
20X optical zoom with a focal length of 28 mm wide angle to 560mm super telephoto (equivalent 35mm format). Thanks to its large zoom range takes Optio VS20 great motion pictures in all modes, from landscapes to sporting events. In macro mode you can go all the way down to 1 centimeter from the subject.
The combination of 16 effective megapixels, high-performance image processor, powerful zoom and an advanced CCD shift-type SR mechanism for image stabilization, provides a very high image quality. Images enlarged remain sharp from edge to edge. When shooting still images the camera automatically increases sensitivity up to ISO 6400 by detecting the brightness.
Automatic selection of the best program mode for a given subject or scene by analyzing a number of parameters in the entire frame. The camera selects the fifteen available scene modes, including the blue sky and sunset, and optimize the various camera settings (eg. Sensitivity and shutter speed).
New Scene Modes (Handheld Night Snap, Fish-eye and Sketch) and filter for greater creative possibilities. Digital Panorama is a feature that creates a panoramic picture of the two or three images. The new stretch-filter makes it possible to stretch out parts of an image for the eye-catching visual effects. Altogether there are thirteen digital filters and three image sizes (4:3, 16:9 and 1:1) to choose from.
Upgraded automatic face recognition memory, which means that you can prioritize the sharp focus and optimized exposure on pre-selected faces, useful when taking group shots. Also features Smile Capture simplifies the recording of live snapshots.
HDTV (1280x720) movie recording with his own start button, making it faster to go from thought to action when you want to shoot. Three new digital filters (Fish-eye, Miniature, and Sketch) makes it possible to experiment with more visual expression.
Among other features are shooting with a wireless remote control (optional) and
D-Range setting that prevents over-and underexposed areas of the image.
Price and availability
Pentax Optio VS20 is available in stores from mid-February 2012, and it will cost approx. £ 1,999, - including VAT. Neck strap and software for image viewing (Mediainpression), editing and archiving included (compatible with Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7).
Pentax launches Optio VS20, a new digital compact camera as well as an additional powerful 20x optical zoom with a focal length from wide angle to super telephoto and macro, have an additional trigger button and a specially designed zoom lever which simplifies shooting with the camera in a vertical position.
Its compact body is packed with advanced features, including 16 effective megapixels for crisp images with high resolution, powerful 20x optical zoom and an extra large, bright anti-glare treated, dirt resistant 3 "LCD color screen. It also has an additional shutter release button and zoom lever gives a good, steady grip, even when shooting in vertical position. The images on the LCD screen rotates automatically and the camera has a tripod thread for vertical mounting.
The new setting Handheld Night Snap takes great pictures with minimal noise at low light.
"Pentax Optio VS20 is a universal high performance camera that can handle multiple motives and situations than most conventional cameras - from spontaneous snapshots to travel photos and sports photography," says Helge Rose at Focus Nordic, Pentax Nordic general agent.
Key Features
20X optical zoom with a focal length of 28 mm wide angle to 560mm super telephoto (equivalent 35mm format). Thanks to its large zoom range takes Optio VS20 great motion pictures in all modes, from landscapes to sporting events. In macro mode you can go all the way down to 1 centimeter from the subject.
The combination of 16 effective megapixels, high-performance image processor, powerful zoom and an advanced CCD shift-type SR mechanism for image stabilization, provides a very high image quality. Images enlarged remain sharp from edge to edge. When shooting still images the camera automatically increases sensitivity up to ISO 6400 by detecting the brightness.
Automatic selection of the best program mode for a given subject or scene by analyzing a number of parameters in the entire frame. The camera selects the fifteen available scene modes, including the blue sky and sunset, and optimize the various camera settings (eg. Sensitivity and shutter speed).
New Scene Modes (Handheld Night Snap, Fish-eye and Sketch) and filter for greater creative possibilities. Digital Panorama is a feature that creates a panoramic picture of the two or three images. The new stretch-filter makes it possible to stretch out parts of an image for the eye-catching visual effects. Altogether there are thirteen digital filters and three image sizes (4:3, 16:9 and 1:1) to choose from.
Upgraded automatic face recognition memory, which means that you can prioritize the sharp focus and optimized exposure on pre-selected faces, useful when taking group shots. Also features Smile Capture simplifies the recording of live snapshots.
HDTV (1280x720) movie recording with his own start button, making it faster to go from thought to action when you want to shoot. Three new digital filters (Fish-eye, Miniature, and Sketch) makes it possible to experiment with more visual expression.
Among other features are shooting with a wireless remote control (optional) and
D-Range setting that prevents over-and underexposed areas of the image.
Price and availability
Pentax Optio VS20 is available in stores from mid-February 2012, and it will cost approx. £ 1,999, - including VAT. Neck strap and software for image viewing (Mediainpression), editing and archiving included (compatible with Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.7).
Comment by johnriley posted on Rumour!!!!!!!!! at 25/01/2012 - 17:06
Glad to see you got it sorted out Vic.
Time to show us some of your best images?
Time to show us some of your best images?
Comment by johnriley posted on Test Photo? at 25/01/2012 - 14:16
I've replied to your PM Vic, so have a go with that and let's see where it leads!
Instructions are also at the top of the list in Your Photos.
Instructions are also at the top of the list in Your Photos.
Comment by johnriley posted on Linking Images Into Posts at 25/01/2012 - 13:26
It probably comes under "handling", but reviewers need to be very careful with this. Having and stating opinions on handling is fine, we need to know how things work in practice, but it's the giving of scores that's IMHO the really tricky bit. Attempts to quantify scoring tend to leave us with scores that don't reflect the total usefulness and performance of an item.
Comment by johnriley posted on digital photo review at 25/01/2012 - 12:02
One of the most difficult ratings to provide is a "value for money" one. How do you argue VFM with a Limited lens, for example? The 77mm could be regarded as expensive or, compared to Leica prices, an absolute steal....where does that leave us?
Personally I would ditch VFM ratings.
Personally I would ditch VFM ratings.
Comment by johnriley posted on digital photo review at 25/01/2012 - 10:49
No, Photobucket is far easier IMHO. Upload 800px wide images to Photobucket, copy the link they provide and paste it in your message here. The image will appear in the forum message.
Comment by johnriley posted on FS: SMC Pentax-M 1.7 50mm with Hoya Skylight filter for sale at 25/01/2012 - 09:47
At the top of the Your Photos section there is an explanation post regarding Photobucket. Just copy and paste the last of the four links that Photobucket provides.
Comment by johnriley posted on FS: SMC Pentax-M 1.7 50mm with Hoya Skylight filter for sale at 25/01/2012 - 09:18
However, what we can do is look backwards and ask if we can still use some cameras that used odd batteries. The mercury cells could have been tricky, but Wein cells cover that, so the Spotmatics are safe for now. The larger silver oxide cells that Yashica used for their compacts are difficult but not impossible to find, at a price.
Generally, we are still OK for some pretty obscure stuff and when Pentax stop selling their own battery for a mparticular model, the independents take over and offer a substitute.
I think we'll be OK, and if we're not we'll have to buy a new camera. Probably by then the K-5 will be a distant memory anyway, one for the collectors. ("It's hard to imagine they still used CMOS sensors in those days....")