As we've
seen in the past, rugged point-and-shoots
aren't necessarily the greatest pure shooters; generally speaking, compromises are made when it comes to image quality in order to manufacture a camera that can withstand an atypical amount of abuse. With that in mind, critics over at
Photography BLOG went into their review of Pentax's all-weather
Optio W90 with lowered expectations on the image quality front, but they actually came away duly impressed. Deeming the cam one "not just of outer muscle, but with inner strengths too," they found the W90 able to produce images "better what [they were] used to [seeing] from models that major on toughness." As you'd expect, it was able to shrug off bouts with dust, water and the occasional rude encounter with concrete, but reviewers did lament the omission of optical stabilization, and low-light performance was unsurprisingly lackluster. Still, it seems a solid overall option for those concerned with rigidity, but we'd encourage you to visit that source link before making a final call either way.
posted May 16th 2010 6:14PM
Looks like a dead white rat with a camera in its belly?
@Bad Manners I thought I saw that too but the camera was a battery.
@MoonWalkerCTE Battery powered rats. Shudders!
@Bad Manners
I thought the same thing
+1
@Bad Manners exactly what I thought... did a double take
@Bad Manners Yeah they need to work on their advertising.
@Spiraling Shape
"Yeah they need to work on their advertising." ... Oh I don't know. Sure did get everyone talking didn't it. Might even go viral, in which case it'd certainly not be an advertising fail :)
@Bad Manners
For a second I thought it is something in something.
Then I thought "Tauntaun!"
Then I moaned and said ... oh so lame.
Ahhhh, Transporter Room accidents are sooo unfortunate.
You'd think with all the flashing blue LEDs we have now-a-days, that these type of things wouldn't happen anymore... oh the humanity!
whoa. that looks like a dead rat with a camera stuffed in its guts
This looks impressive.
poor rat
At first glance, I thought it was a dead, deformed white mouse. O.o
@g00dni9ht Ok, good that wasn't just me.
we are all together on this one. it's a dead rat with camera stuffed in it!
I wanna know how this compares to the Sony roughed tx5
The Optio W90 is a massively over priced successor to the W80. http://bit.ly/a9j4Hj
@BoredOnTheNet Go pedal your crappy blog somewhere else!
@dmgabe ok comment troll.
I have wanted one of the Optio W-series cameras for a while now. I have a DSLR for serious shooting but I would love one of these for shooting in situations I wouldn't risk the DSLR in (rafting and such). Decided to wait until they released one that does 720p video as well, which the W90 does so I don't know what I am waiting for any longer.
I am sorry, but the picture looks like a died white mouse...
I really don't think low light performance is going to be "the" factor of a purchase. I might just try this as a companion to my trusty 40D
Willard!
road kill - tech style
I have this camera and am returning it.
The image quality is marginal and the video quality is like it was taken through a cellphone....terrible video quality. I was looking to upgrade from a Canon SD1000 and like the idea of a camera for the beach - this is not the one
The ad will read, "Pentax builds a better mouse trap"