Digital Camera Review

Digital Camera Review

Jan 13, 2006 - By Richard Baguley
Launched at the CES 2006 show in January, the Pentax Optio E10 is the flagship model in a new Pentax line of entry level, budget digital cameras aimed at users who want a simple photographic experience. Priced at under $200 and available this February, the new camera eschews some of the advanced features on Pentax’s more expensive and simultaneously launched Optio A10. It’s built around a 1/2.5-inch CCD that captures 6 megapixel images. To keep the price low it offers a common 3x zoom lens, runs off of easy to find AA batteries, and has low resolution on its 2.4” LCD.
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Picture Quality / Size Options
The E10 offers four JPEG image size settings: 6, 4, 2, and 0.3 megapixels. There are three compression settings: three stars, two stars, and one star. There’s no option to save RAW images, but that’s not surprising and generally isn’t seen until the $600 or so price point. With the highest image size and quality settings on the E10, you’ll get about 33 images onto a 128MB SD card.

Picture Effects Mode
The digital effects are limited to two: black and white, and sepia. Although they do what they say, you’ll be better off shooting the images in normal mode and processing the images on your PC if you can.

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