The Pentax Optio X’s stylish appearance and distinctive design will appeal to snapshooters looking for a pocketable conversation piece, but molasses-slow performance, mediocre image quality, and lack of manual controls will turn off both casual and serious photographers looking for high-quality results.

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The Pentax Optio X is certainly an interesting camera. It has a stylish black and silver body that is twistable and packs in a great amount of features. The camera is capable of taking large 5 megapixel images and offers 15 recording modes from which to choose. It even has advanced functions such as manual white balance and several types of bracketing. In addition, it offers a movie and voice memo mode. Indeed, the camera proved to be a good performer in some of our tests. For example, when sounds are disabled, it starts up in a respectable 3.37 seconds and has decent write times as well. Under tungsten light, the Auto WB system performed a bit better than what we are used to seeing. Also, the colors were extremely accurate in our Auto WB daylight samples. The Optio X can expose night images for up to 4 seconds with good low-noise results. Unfortunately, that is about as far as the positive remarks go.

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