The model 50 is 14th camera to be launched in Pentax’s Optio digital range and with prices going down, and features going up, it’s offers a glimpse of the tough competition other manufactures are to face in the second half of 2005 and the run Christmas.
Currently the Optio 50 is the second cheapest camera, in the 5.0Megapixel band, that can be bought from online camera retailers pixmania.com, knocked from the top spot, by a measly £3, by Olympus’s Camedia C-180.
For those with a functioning knowledge of the current Optio range the model 50, closely resembles the S50, launched in Autum 2004, In fact if you pull up a comparison of the camera’s specifications that even though the 50 is almost £30 cheaper, both cameras are virtually identical.