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The ultra-slim PENTAX Optio P80 digital camera features a lightweight design in three fashionable colors including Black, Pearl, and Mint. This stylish camera features a lightweight body with advanced features including 12.1 megapixels, a 4X wide angle optical zoom, HD video capture, Shake Reduction, Face Detection and Smile Recognition. Fantastic shots come easily with an Auto Picture mode that selects from eight shooting modes. The large 2.7 inch LCD ensures accurate composition and playback of still images and video. Sensitivity up to ISO 6400 boosts shutter speeds to freeze subject movement for blur-free images even in low lighting.
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 Pretty excellent small camera |
| Review Date: January 31, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Bob Forehead, Washington, DC |
| Overall, I find this a pretty excellent small digital point and shoot, and a excellent replacement for our earlier model of Pentax Optio. For indoor shooting, I am impressed at the depth achieved by the flash -- much better than our earlier model. In fact, I really wasn't expecting such excellent results. If I were to fault the camera at all, I would say that the colors in the photos are vibrant -- perhaps a bit more vibrant than in actuality. Still, that is a minor problem -- if a problem at all -- for a digital camera in such a portable package. |
Portability
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| Review Date: January 23, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Eswar Balasubrahmanyan, lubbock, TX |
I bought this because I had given my 8mp SE phone to my mom (along with my Sony camera). I realized that my Sony was bulky to carry around and did not prove as effective as when I was a student (took it to games and stuff). So, this is my continuing saga where I research on really excellent brands that most of my 'desi' friends aren't even aware of. They say "Pentax??!! What the heck is that? Why didn't you buy a Canon or a Sony?" The picture quality, face recognition and the speed are very nice. This is basically what you'd NEED but may not WANT. There are a lot of built-in profiles that are very simple to set the camera to in an instant. The interface is okay but I reckon I personally might want some more (I see everything as computers ...)
Anyway, awesome buy. And, I did have a 20 bucks manufacturer's discount. |
A Pentax Camera Marvel
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| Review Date: October 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Earl F. Mouton, Texas |
| What a camera! Very simple to use, lots of bang for the buck, I have three other Pentax Digital cameras of the SLR type. I bought this Pentax to carry in my shirt pocket so I have a camera available most of the time. Like it! |
Excellent vacation camera
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| Review Date: May 27, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Robert W. Scheuerman, |
I have been using a Pentax camera, mostly on vacations, for several year and am pleased with it. I wanted a camera with a wide angle lense so I could take group pictures and landscapes without leaving out part of the scene I wanted.
After I received the Pentax P80 and started taking test pictures to see how it works, I found that the advertising about "wide angle" lense was misleading. What the camera does is stitch two or three pictures together to make one wide picture. That is hardly a wide angle lense. I already had a Canon camera that allows me to take two pictures and then stitch them together with the software Cannon provided. The Canon is a much larger camera and it is still hard to take two pictures that can match each other enough to stitch them together. The Pentax is very small (which I like) but it is nearly impossible to take two or three pictures that match enough to stitch together.
I should have known better to reckon I could get a wide angle lense on a camera that only cost $130. But the darn thing is so simple to carry around, and takes such excellent pictures, that I won't leave home without it (and my cell phone, of course).
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Grainy and blurry
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| Review Date: February 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: D. Hill, Los Angeles, CA |
| After my Panasonic FS7 took a tumble (boy was it fragile...don't dare drop it while it's on), I chose to replace it with the P80. I was terribly disappointed in the quality of photos. Granted, I realize that all digital point and shoots will have less than optimal quality in low light, but this was plain HORRIBLE. Everything was orangish and grainy. Also, maybe the autofocus and autoiso features apparently did not work properly, because 80% of the photos were a blur. I had to return this piece of crap. I chose to go back to Panasonic and got the ZR1. Pentax had one chance to impress and failed. |
Pass...
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| Review Date: July 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Aro, L.A. CA |
| I really wanted to like this camera. It's very nice externally, but the pictures were barely decent. We tried all the settings, customized the settings, tried different lighting but most of them came out grainy. I was excited about the HD video recording capability as we have a new baby. It looked like she was covered with ants! Also, the rechargeable battery drained pretty quickly after a few snaps and turning it off and on a couple of times. I finished up returning it. |
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November 27th, 2009 | 
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