To all Pentax Optio A30 users, kindly give me those most common problems faced by owners of this digicam.?
Monday, March 29th, 2010 at
7:41 pm
I’m planning to buy a Pentax Optio A30 this week using my hard-earned money and I want to have some inputs from previous owners. This would be my first digicam.
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The three most common complaints about this camera are, in this order:
- Noise (ISO performance).
- Battery life
- Video quality.
The first complaint, ISO performance, is somewhat reasonable, though many A30 seem to have been either expecting too much from this camera, or lured by publicity hype (either Pentax’s or the seller’s): it’s a relatively cheap camera which relies on its (rather effective) CCD-shift type image stabilizer to AVOID having to use high ISO sensitivity adjustments… because, being a 1/2.5"-sized sensor, it just can’t give a better-than-average ISO performance: for that, you’d have to choose a camera with a larger sensor (there are quite a few by Fujifilm, such as the Fxx series).
The battery life is… well, weak. There’s no denying that.
As for the video quality, the camera uses the DivX codec to further compress the file size, and some quality might indeed be lost due to that. It’s something of an unavoidable compromise… other cameras rely on less-compressing codecs, such as the M-JPEG one, and so you have better quality, but also bigger file sizes, and thus less recording time for the same card capacity.