Pentax's $399.95 X70 megazoom up for pre-order

Oh sure, you've got plenty of options when it comes to selecting a shooter with zoom for days, but what's the harm in having one more option to comb over? The X70, which we saw peek out ahead of PMA, is finally up for pre-order on the outfit's own site. In case you've forgotten, this 12 megapixeler boasts a stupendous 24x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD monitor and an SDHC card slot. Worth four Benjamins? Depends on how bad you want to see that blade of grass way over there on the 30 yard line.

Pentax's $399.95 X70 megazoom up for pre-order

[Aceyriot Posted Mar 13th 2009 7:55PM]

why cant you give away one of these?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 9:21PM]

I voted for you for such a great idea!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 7:59PM]

do want

[shogunmaster Posted Mar 13th 2009 8:03PM]

Their site says 'Out of Stock'. Does that mean it's just pre-order or the pre-orders are now gone?

[Wolfticket Posted Mar 13th 2009 8:10PM]

Frankly I'm disappointed it doesn't have a 70x zoom.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 7:25PM]

me too. that was the only reason why i picked this article to read

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 8:38PM]

you mean how bad you want to see that piece of ass way over there 3 buildings over

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 8:50PM]

42mp/cm^2 "pixel" density means iso 200 looks semi-ok, and iso400 is barely usable.

For non-photo folks here, what this means is :

Imagine someone hits you in the face really hard, and then gives you a pair of very nice binoculars.

[capriskye Posted Mar 13th 2009 9:07PM]

i still don't understand your metaphor, please explain.

no sarcasm here

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 9:22PM]

it means if you use ISO setting higher than 200, the picture will look like garbage.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 9:05PM]

Oh great... now any Joe Schmoe with $400 can become a Paparazzi...

Well, I guess that what comes with popularity like me!

AHAHAH!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 9:36PM]

"HD movie capture vividly captures moving memories in widescreen 720p (15 FPS)"

Uhh, 15fps for $400?? Pardon me, but screw you, Pentax. There are much better choices out there that have long zooms & do full HD (30fps) that are similarly priced.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 13th 2009 10:49PM]

You mean like Panasonic cameras?

Lumix FTW.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 4:45AM]

Reminds me of the Panasonic FZ28. It seems like this camera may have a slight image quality/zoom advantage, although I don't know those Leica lenses are pretty damn nice. The Panasonic wins hands down for video for sure.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 1:46AM]

I'll pass on this one. I don't care how much it can zoom, it's ugly and kinda cheap looking.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 8:45AM]

Nikon P90 has 24x zoom and images seem to be very high quality at 12MP

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 2:49PM]

I am a Pentax DSLR user and I quite like it. The interface is easy, the button layout puts EVERYTHING at my fingertips (unlike canon's entry level DSLR cameras). I think this will be a good camera for people not wanting to get into an SLR level camera but want features such as long zoom.

This should be a good camera.