Review 4 of 4
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$195.00
from Hamburg Summary: The Pentax Espio135M is a good P&S camera for a general use under the assumption the light conditions are very good. It is a typical holiday camera for a nice summer weather. Its strengts is the sharp lens with an interesting zoom range, its size and weight. As a pocket camera it is a bit bulky. The light metering and autofocus work good, a spot metering is also possible in difficult light conditions. It would be very useful to have this lens quality with a better aperture range and with better macro capabilities. Strengths: The size and weight. It is a very small P&S camera with many features. The zoom range 38 - 135 mm is very useful. The lens is sharp through the entire zoom range. I use normally a Contax SLR camera with Zeiss lenses. If these lenses would get 5 stars, then my Tokina SLR zooms would get 4 stars and this Pentax-camera about 3.5 stars - it is a very good result for a P&S camera. The multicoating of the lens is very good, the flare is no problem. The mode settings are good distributed into four groups and each group can be set individually. The camera works softly, especially its shutter. Weaknesses: The maximum aperture at 135 mm is 12.5 - it is not very useful, the use of 400° ASA is absolutely necessary. The maximum aperture at 38 mm is 4.8, there are many P&S cameras with better aperture range (i.e. Konica Z-up 120 VP or 110 VP have an aperture range 3.6 - 10.6). The individual settings are lost after switching the camera off (automatically 3 minutes after the last use) and must be set again. The macro capabilities are poor - only 1:7.1. The long time exposures are not very useful without the optional remote control. The time delay between the preflash for the red eye reduction and the normal flash is too long - the people can guess the exposure has been already done. Similar Products Used: Konica Z-up 110 VP, 120 VP Customer Service: Not used.
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