PENTAX Optio A40 Reviews

We associate Pentax compacts with cheery, child-like styling, but the top-of-the-range Optio A40 is striving to be taken rather more seriously. Optical image stabilisation, a 12-megapixel resolution, fast performance and excellent image quality all bolste...

Optical image stabilisation; excellent image quality

Uninspiring specs; hard to take styling seriously

With a high-end price tag but middling specs, the Pentax Optio A40 doesn't stand out. Picture quality is first-class, with optical image stabilisation and dynamic range adjustment looking interesting, but the toy-like styling isn't for us

Matt Grayson gets to grips with the Pentax Optio A40. A camera with a name like a stretch of road that goes from Oxford to Haverfordwest.

Great build quality, Loads of features, Good quality lens, Fast and quiet operation

Noise, noise and more noise, Chooses wrong apertures in scene modes

I'm blown away by the feature set of this little compact and the build quality is excellent too. It's unfortunate that something has to give and with the Pentax Optio A40 it's noise control. Frankly, it's rubbish at it. It can't stop even a slight smatter...

The Pentax Optio A40 is the latest result of Pentax's tradition of producing simple, usable, ultracompact cameras that have high-quality optics.

The Pentax Optio A40 is a good, no-nonsense camera that captures pictures with surprisingly good image quality.

The link to shopping square.com.au is for the old A30 not the new A40 . Be warned.

A fine ultacompact camera in all respects. The people at Pentax know well what they are doing and satisfy the real needs of the amateur and the experienced photographer. All the features of this camera certainly have a goal and the image quality, the sha...

the battery compartement is too easily opened only two lens appertures are available: fully open and f8 (f10 on tele) but there is nothing to complain , f8 does very very well.

This is a gorgeous little black and chrome gem . The Positives: (1) The Intelligent Zoom feature . When set to 7, then 5 , then 3 megapixels , the A-40 offers (via cropping) 148 mm , 175 mm , and 216 mm focal lengths respectively . And that's why I boug...

The Negatives : (1) Intelligent Zoom is only available by having the disliked digital zoom turned ON . The faint green marker on the multiplier bar is difficult to see and it is too easy to slide beyond the Intelligent Zoom range over into the unwanted d...