Pentax Optio T30

usability, portability, design, screen, image quality

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, price, screen, size

performance, shutter, reliability

100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Attractive design, easily portable ; Responsive touch screen ; Face detection autofocus and auto exposure ; Voice memo recording ; Memo pad mode with annotation possible on images ; Remembers many important settings ; Manual focus option ; Optional...

Crude touch screen icons ; Odd menu structure ; Battery can be inserted into charger several wrong ways ; Higher than average barrel distortion at wide angle ; High chromatic aberration ; Undersaturated color ; Warm indoor shots with Auto White Balance...

The Pentax T30 is an ultra compact, which is lighter than most, but it still has a substantial (and reassuring) heft. The front of the Pentax T30 is almost all lens and the back is almost all LCD. There are only two buttons on the back, in fact,...

Huge 3-inch wide viewing-angle LCD, Touchscreen interface speeds up and simplifies, Sleek and elegant design, Digital shake reduction with ISO up to 3200

Touchscreen operation has a learning curve, No super-macro, No green button, No sensor shift shake reduction

Cool factor of the 3-inch touch screen LCD, Elegant looks, Minimal buttons, Pocket-sized, Great price

Slow continuous capture mode, Poor flash performance, Slow image transfer via supplied USB cable (20 minutes for 1GB), Big LCD display may be easily scratched, Touch screen controls can be accidentally activated

Pentax should be marketing the hell out of their Optio T30 and bragging about the touch screen LCD. Everyone I've shown it to - mostly other photographers - think that it's super cool. None of us knew there were any touch screen cameras available until...

Huge 3-inch wide viewing-angle LCD, Touchscreen interface speeds up and simplifies, Sleek and elegant design, Digital shake reduction with ISO up to 3200

Touchscreen operation has a learning curve, No super-macro, No green button, No sensor shift shake reduction

The Optio T30 is a camera that requires some getting used to as almost everything is done via a touchscreen instead of conventional buttons and levers. Once you practice a bit and become familiar with the different interface, the camera becomes...

Touchscreen is fun and easy to use

Short on features ; Flimsy build ; Jerky zoom ; Pricey

The T30 is certainly fun to use and could be popular with those who find small switches and dials difficult to operate. Image quality is average and there's little else that leaps out from this compact. Try one out to see if you like the concept. Fun,...

That 3-inch touchscreen, picture quality

Still some delay in taking pictures, software still gets confused from time to time

We loved the T20, however we didn't love the fact that it took so long to take pictures that you miss the action.

Good quality touchscreen, Fun onboard editing tools, Little noise, except at high ISO rates, Decent battery life, Surprisingly good picture/video quality

Plastic not metal tripod screw

We love the touchscreen and the great picture quality, but the interface can be awkward

A solidly built, decent value camera, the Pentax Optio T30 suffers by comparison to similarly priced cameras such as the Panasonic DMC-FX12 and the Nikon Coolpix S10, particularly in terms of its feature set and picture quality.

Good image quality outdoors ; Excellent metering ; High resolution 3-inch touch screen ; Easy to master interface ; Solid and compact

Compression too strong, even at the highest image quality ; Sensitive to noise as of 200 ISO ; Underpowered flash