Spotlight Customer Reviews
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great little camera.
Comment: It's small and very light so you can take it anywhere. Icons that are fun and easy to use. Takes great pictures. I love the soft flash mode, the warm skin tone mode and the rechargeable battery. The only thing is that I got it in pink, great color, but my little granddaughter thinks it's her toy!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A Nice Little Camera for Family and Vacation Photos
Comment: I bought the Pentax Optio M50 as a gift. I chose this model for the following reasons:
* It is small and compact enough to always have with you
* It is very stylish (especially for a young girl). We got it in Pink to go with her pink iPod.
* I wanted a camera with a minimum of 8MP which is plenty for home use (I have advanced digital SLRs with 8MP and they take pro-quality images)
* The zoom ratio (5x) was much better than those found on other cameras in it's class (usually 3x)
* I like the feature that automatically detects and exposes for faces (although the "Auto-Smile" feature seems to be a hit-or-miss feature so I don't suggest using it)
* It is a good value for the price
A couple of things to be aware of though:
* There is no optical viewer, you must use the rear screen to compose the image
* The "shake reduction" feature is not true electronic image stabilization, which you can find or higher-end cameras. Instead it raises the sensitivity of the light sensing chip in low light which allows the use of a higher shutter speed at the same time giving you less detail in the resulting photo. Nice feature, but not as nice as IS which reduces or compensates for actual camera shake electronically.
Over all this is a great buy. Just a few years ago a camera like this would have cost at least twice as much. Considering it's features this is a very good value and Pentax is a name that you can trust.
Customer Rating: Summary: Camera
Comment: This camera is awesome. It is handy being so small yet takes great photos. The zoom is an excellent feature.
Customer Rating: Summary: pentax camera
Comment: i love it i shake alot and i tryed my brothers and i took great pic's i was impressed. i had to have one. i do scrappbooking and need to take good pic of my family. i have two other camera and this is the best when u have shakie hands.
Customer Rating: Summary: maddog
Comment: the camera is excellent, takes great pictures and is easy to operate. we liked it so much and our grand daughter liked it we bought her one.
