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August 8, 2006

Pentax Splashes Waterproof Camera Market With Optio W20

Pentax is no stranger to waterproof cameras with their Optio line, and they're expanding their beach-safe library with the Optio W20. Announced earlier today, the W20 is a 7 megapixel camera with a 2.5" LCD screen and 4x digital zoom. Of course, hence the prefixed "W", the main feature is that the camera is waterproof.

Unlike most "water resistant" cameras that you can't submerge in water, the W20 can actually last up to a half an hour completely underwater, up to 1.5 meters deep. It's the ideal "rugged" camera if you're the kind of person who's outdoors and around water a lot.
There's a scant 22 MB of internal memory, and memory is handled by SD cards, as well as SDHC. The W20 also sports such increasingly common features as blur reduction, macro recording, face recognition and auto focus. It's also widely compatible in terms of printing devices -- PictBridge, DPOF functions, Exif Print, and PRINT Image Matching III are all supported.

We don't know exactly how much the W20 is going to cost, but considering the other models run for a few hundred dollars, that's probably about what you can expect to pay when this baby hits the market.

Via Lets Go Digital

Posted by mark at August 8, 2006 9:18 AM