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Summary: Just a great camera
Review: ...if you just like to take pictures to remember stuff and not spend too much... then buy this camera! This camer is just plain ol' good. I reasearched many other cameras (Nikkon 885/775, Cannon S30/S110/S300, Kyocera S3) for about 1 1/2 months before settling on this one. When everything was considered the Pentax blew them all away (except the Cannon S30 which is equally good but MUCH more expensive).
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Summary: Excellent Camera to take excellent snaps
Review: 3 words.. Simple, Perfect, Beautiful..
This camera has everything that u wld want from a point and shoot. The pictures are sharp, colors are beautiful. The battery gets discharged quicker but then u can save it by shutting the display off.. it gets charged fairly quickly.I got snaps printed from [local stores]. All came excellent.. love this camera..
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Summary: Small in size with tradeoffs
Review: After extensive researching internet and comparing a varieties of cameras, including Cannon S110, S300, S40, G2, Nikon 885, Sony DSC-P5 and Olympus D40Z, I finally bought Pentax 330 this Christmas, mainly for (1) its pocket size-"take it and go anywhere" (2) >3M pixels (3) manual controls. I love its size and bring it with me everytime when going to park with my kid. But I must admit that I'm a bit disappointed (1)in-door focus has problem - every two out of ten among my christmas party pictures are out of focus (I had to download and upgrade the firmware from v1.05 to v1.10 later and seemed to get a little bit better); (2)picture is not as sharp as I expected for a 3Mpixel camera; (3)movie mode does not record SOUND, a silent movie only -- what a miss! (BTW, the quality of movie is no comparison to D8/MiniDV camcarder. The movie looks very poor on TV. It is not pentax specific problem, since its resolution is only 320x240 vs 550x475 for D8/DV. Don't expect to replace your camcorder with any digicam's movie) The default sharpness setting seems to use cheap sharpening algorithm. It's better to set it to soft and unsharp mask filter later.
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Summary: Shutter Problem
Review: Bought in 2001 and now the shuttler can hardly respond. Also focus is always a problem.
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Summary: Great camera for amateurs!!!!!!!!!
Review: Bought mine for this Christmas. Came with 16mb CF card good for 14 pix at 2048x1536 (max res)Makes great pictures and easily downloaded to PC....
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Summary: all I could want
Review: great things in a very small package.
all the bells and whistles I wanted and very easy to use.
manual clear and well done
16 mb card it comes with produces 16 high resol. shots or combined with nice 'movie' feature. . .all very, very easy
64mb card only 35dollars. . .
not what I had planned on. . .hadn't even heard of it before. . .bought on site at store (came with $100 rebate up til June 2002. . .and only 499 in store. . .making it 399!!
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Summary: all I could want
Review: great things in a very small package.
all the bells and whistles I wanted and very easy to use.
manual clear and well done
16 mb card it comes with produces 16 high resol. shots or combined with nice 'movie' feature. . .all very, very easy
64mb card only 35dollars. . .
not what I had planned on. . .hadn't even heard of it before. . .bought on site at store (came with $100 rebate up til June 2002. . .and only 499 in store. . .making it 399!!
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Summary: A great digital for "film photographers"
Review: I am a photographer that likes to use all of the manual aspects of a camera.. I play with depth of field, and slow shutter speeds, pushing and pulling film etc. PROS:
This camera has been a real joy because it has the three things that I was looking for:
1) Must be tiny...to fit in a jacket pocket easily for roaming..
2) Must be able to go manual for long exposures (up to 15 seconds)
3) Must do well in low light. It satisfies all of these criteria very well, and I have been generally very pleased with it. Experimental photos are a dream. CONS: Batteries go pretty quickly, so you have to have a second to swap. Once you've solved that issue, its a joy all around.
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Summary: Excellent Camera to take excellent snaps
Review: I bought a pentax optio 330 about a month ago and I just love the little guy! I was considering the Nikon 885 but a sales rep at National Camera suggested this one to me. It is about 100 dollars more but with the mail in rebate it comes down to the same price as the Nikon. He also indicated to me that more customers had complaints about the Nikon and had more problems with the Nikon's menu screen. Well I can't say for sure since I have never used that camera but with my Pentax, I don't think I will ever need to. I have enjoyed beautiful, crisp pictures with this camera. I took shots of my doll collection, my artwork, and my cat and they all turned out great (once I got used to the different light settings which wasn't too hard). I did take it to my cousin's wedding and I have to say that it didn't work as well for me there. One reason was that I was loathe to use the flash since I didn't like the way the flash looked in my other indoor pics I had taken earlier. I also reasoned that the camera has special "dark room" settings to compensate. Futhermore, the pics on my viewscreen were looking good so I trusted that. Well I wished I had used more flash cause when I uploaded them, most of the pics were blurry. Granted most of them were of people dancing but I wonder if the flash would have helped the focus. The camera does seem to have a problem focusing in dark situations but I am still experimenting with that and I don't think that it is a major problem. I saw in a previous review that someone mentioned the viewscreen being too small. I have to agree since I can't tell whether or not the pic is blurry based on the screen. But if the screen were any bigger, the camera would be too and that is not what you want in a compact camera. I love the small size! It fits in my coat pocket and when I have it around my neck it doesn't feel like it is cutting off circulation. It is also cased in stainless steel as opposed to the Nikon's plastic casing which does give me more confidence - although I wouldn't recommend dropping it ;) Overall it is a great point and shoot digital camera! I would highly recommend! And if the price bothers you - well you won't have to hassle with photo developing services any more now will you?
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Summary: Slick lil bugger!
Review: I bought a pentax optio 330 about a month ago and I just love the little guy! I was considering the Nikon 885 but a sales rep at National Camera suggested this one to me. It is about 100 dollars more but with the mail in rebate it comes down to the same price as the Nikon. He also indicated to me that more customers had complaints about the Nikon and had more problems with the Nikon's menu screen. Well I can't say for sure since I have never used that camera but with my Pentax, I don't think I will ever need to. I have enjoyed beautiful, crisp pictures with this camera. I took shots of my doll collection, my artwork, and my cat and they all turned out great (once I got used to the different light settings which wasn't too hard). I did take it to my cousin's wedding and I have to say that it didn't work as well for me there. One reason was that I was loathe to use the flash since I didn't like the way the flash looked in my other indoor pics I had taken earlier. I also reasoned that the camera has special "dark room" settings to compensate. Futhermore, the pics on my viewscreen were looking good so I trusted that. Well I wished I had used more flash cause when I uploaded them, most of the pics were blurry. Granted most of them were of people dancing but I wonder if the flash would have helped the focus. The camera does seem to have a problem focusing in dark situations but I am still experimenting with that and I don't think that it is a major problem. I saw in a previous review that someone mentioned the viewscreen being too small. I have to agree since I can't tell whether or not the pic is blurry based on the screen. But if the screen were any bigger, the camera would be too and that is not what you want in a compact camera. I love the small size! It fits in my coat pocket and when I have it around my neck it doesn't feel like it is cutting off circulation. It is also cased in stainless steel as opposed to the Nikon's plastic casing which does give me more confidence - although I wouldn't recommend dropping it ;) Overall it is a great point and shoot digital camera! I would highly recommend! And if the price bothers you - well you won't have to hassle with photo developing services any more now will you?
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