Given a rating of 7 out of 10, it’s not easy for a camera company to make a small, good-looking camera that takes nice pictures. There always has to be a tradeoff when you try to cut costs. In this case, Pentax seems to have traded some time between shots in favor of a long zoom lens and nice, if not stellar, image quality. As long as you don’t mind the wait, you might be surprised with the images you get from the Optio Z10.

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The Pentax Optio Z10’s image quality is below average. The camera’s main drawback is noisy images, with the relatively slow speed of ISO 200 showing some noise and blurring of detail. The noise gets progressively worse as you go from ISO 400 to ISO 800 and finally to the completely unusable 1600 and 3200 settings.

The Pentax Optio Z10 handled chromatic aberrations quite well with limited purple fringing effects appearing only in high contrast situations.

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With a rating of 7 out of 10, this is a nicely made point and shoot digital camera comes with a few extra bells and whistles ringing the changes for Pentax, but it is also one with a few bells and whistles missing, ones that really should have been there to ring out loud and clear.

Image quality is okay but hampered by noise, unless this camera is discounted quickly, it is hard to see how it can compete.

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The Pentax Optio Z10 is a bit of a departure for a company that has specialised in 3x zoom compacts for several years.

Build quality and design are good, and general performance is adequate, but image quality issues and the lack of any image stabilisation limit its usefulness, and it looks rather weak compared to several competing models.

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