Pentax Optio S1

usability, portability, price, reliability, color

size, focus, flash

74% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Leistung, Design, Bedienbarkeit

86% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

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People need inexpensive and adequate digital cameras, and Pentax produced the Optio S1 to meet that need. There’s nothing revolutionary or mind blowing about its technology, but it is easy to use and takes decent to above-average photos, if you’re...

Lightweight, and compact in size ; Fashionable/pleasing to the eye ; Smooth and won't snag on your pocket ; Easy to understand button layout, and a lot of easy to understand cartoon menu icons for preprogrammed exposure settings ; Short descriptions of...

Weak Flash can cause some headaches indoors ; Sometimes produced strong exposures with blown out highlights ; Zoom has less steps, making precise framing difficult ; Default setting of backlight time-out is too short ; Poor battery life ; Battery...

The Optio S1 is a "cute" little camera, that offers some pretty standard features for a 14-megapixel camera; all of which are stuffed in a petite and stylish shell. However, we feel you'd be better off looking at other Optio models for the price; like...

Attractively mirrored chrome-finished aluminium alloy body, solid feel build, inexpensive, relatively easy to use, a couple of fun effects filters

Images overall are ropey, optical zoom inaccessible when recording video

There’s not much to the Pentax Optio S1; it’s your average, easy to use “auto everything” £100 pocket snapper disguised as the chrome domed Silver Surfer. Ironically, this flash exterior led us to unwisely hope for a much better performance when it...

We liked Pentax's low cost snappers of last year in the RS1000 (superceded by the RS1500) and i-10, which like the S1 majored heavily on funky design but for us delivered a more consistent imaging performance than the S1, which is slightly more...

If you're looking for high-end specs the PENTAX K-S1 really does have it all. From the PENTAX-developed AA (anti-aliasing) filter simulator (first introduced on the PENTAX K-3); and an optical viewfinder offering 100% field of view; to an built-in...

Doesn’t look as cheap as it is

Poor resolution; Disappointing color; Cheap lens and battery

The Pentax Optio S1 has a brilliant exterior that caught the eye of our entire imaging team. Yet in the same way that a middle-aged, underemployed man might go out and buy a sports car to overcompensate for his insecurities, Pentax–it seems, is also...

Easy to begin recording movies ; Indicator when SD card not inserted

Battery needed to be recharged while inside the camera ; Camera body has nowhere to grip ; Buttons make a clicking noise

The camera’s sensor-shift shake-reduction system helps produce smoother HD video clips and the audio was clear, suitable for home videos.