This acquisition is intended to enhance Optio's PI capabilities and is part of its strategy to create a diversified platform.

If your budget for a new camera tops out at $200, you could do a lot worse than Pentax’s Optio P70. This 12-megapixel point-and-shoot is easy to use and takes decent snaps. It squeezes in ...

With a couple of leaks to get our mouths watering, Pentax has at last confirmed its new trio of Optio cameras: the I-10 (pictured), H90, and E90. The SLR-inspired I-10 sports a 5x zoom ...

Pentax's humdrum Optio S1 has the good fortune to be announced on a day when no other cameras are on the news radar. It is also very pocketable, very cute looking, and has one cool little feature ...

Pentax’s Optio A40 is a 12-megapixel compact point and shoot digital camera. It offers digital and optical shake reduction, as well as high ISO settings and a 3x optical zoom. It’s also ...

PENTAX’s new US$300 Optio V20 goes on sale next week in Japan to help overcome one of happysnapping’s greatest problems – blinking subjects (details inside). The V20’s 'Digital Shake ...

The Pentax Optio W80 is a very well-made, compact digital camera, with a pleasing-to-the-eye two-tone silver and gunmetal grey plastic body and excellent overall finish. Thick black plastic strips on ...

Like most cameras in this price bracket, battery performance is so-so, the Optio H90 promising just 210 shots from a full charge. That said, our experience fell well short of this: at barely half that ...

Noise in the previous image, captured at ISO 1600, is overpowering when the image is viewed at full size. Pentax-Optio-Z10-With-crisp-details-elements-in With crisp details, elements in this image ...

The Optio 555 also has a highly sophisticated appearance, with a slender aluminium body that fits comfortably in the hand and fine concentric lines that radiate from the lens like ripples in a pond.