Pentax W90: Get The Best Waterproof Camera
Pentax Optio W90 is the company's 11th generation waterproof camera. Pentax W90 is shockproof up to four feet, waterproof up to 20 feet, dustproof, and coldproof down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Pentax Optio W90 has a standard 12-megapixel 1/2.3-inch CCD sensor, 5x optical zoom, and 28mm wide-angle lens. These possesses are on the full end of the scale for a compact, and the Pentax Optio W90's 720p HD video was a nice increase, sure though it was Motion JPEG. The W90 is meshed toward beginners, and the camera's basic set of shooting options makes that crystal clear. We did look-alike the 1CM Magnification Macro mode, but most of the designated Scene modes like "Flower" and "Landscape" made little divergence compared to manual choices.
Having represented with the W90 for a couple of weeks, nonetheless, the extra expend seems worth it. It offers not just peace-of-mind supplying brawn - complete with screw heads visible on the faceplate and a lens with a folded mechanism that ensures that at no point does it protrude from the camera body - but brains too. One good example is a new Digital Microscope mode that utilises the three LED lights unexpectedly placed around the lens, set into protective padding that recalls Casio's G-Shock watch range. These lights help pick up the most small-scale details, claims Pentax, and in using it we were indeed able to make small gravel on a path resemble spotted boulders. The small becomes epic.
Further intelligent features include, unexpectedly, a pixel map function, which, when active, checks the camera's sensor and purportedly adjusts any bad pixels. We particularly enjoyed the digital wide function found among its mode menu options that stitches together two images in-camera to create a slightly wider image than the lens will allow, plus you also get a proper panorama mode option too. Even So it showed difficult at times to marry up images correctly when viewing the camera's screen in bright light.
At the end of the day though Optio W90 will allow its user to take pictures in a greater variety of conditions - and at time extreme ones - than a standard digital camera will allow. As that implies more - and possibly more intriguing - pictures, many may therefore conclude that the modest supplemental premium is indeed one worthy paying.