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Pentax Optio M20

04 Apr, 2007, 11:40 am IST | Shayne Rana | Point and Shoot

Features
As budget cameras go, the M20 doesn’t offer too much extra in terms of features. But this 7.1 megapixel with 3x optical zoom still manages to fare quite well. Settings are quite similar to what you might find in other digicams in this range. Among them are options for macro and Super Macro, or flower mode you’d find in the options. The super mode is great for when you really want to get up close and personal to those flowers.

There are also presets for night, sports and anti blur which is, simply put, digital image stabilization. These two modes come in handy for spontaneous image capturing. There are 2 other settings for taking pictures of your pet and food. I’m not sure what to say about that, as pet or food lovers might have another opinion. Apart from these there also a settings to take pictures with 3 preloaded frames. Another helpful feature is the Manual Focusing mode that actually allows you to do just that.

The M20 is fully equipped to be a traveler’s camera with functions for setting the time to where you’ll be traveling to so it’ll change automatically on arrival.

What I do like is the interface which is so simple with cute little icons depicting all the functions. Makes it really easy for just about anyone to use. Even the menus for post processing are depicted with similar icons. There are tools for resizing, rotating the images, digital and brightness filters and even creating a voice memo for the image.

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