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The Pentax Optio Z10 camera features a Pentax-branded 7x optical zoom lens, the highest magnification among current Pentax compact digital cameras. It is designed with a refraction lens system and this lens never sticks out from the camera at the time of zooming. Its optical zoom covers a broad range, from a rather tight wide-angle 38mm-equivalent to a moderate 266mm equivalent telephoto. The lens is coupled with an eight-megapixel sensor and a 2.5-inch LCD display that has 230,000 pixels. In case of the LCD, the Pentax Optio Z10 forgoes any form of optical viewfinder. Other features of the camera embrace15 shooting modes, high speed face recognition for improved portraits, digital Shake Reduction that allows ISO to 3,200 to capture sharper images even in low light settings, a unique Digital Wide function that converts two images into an approximately 28mm-equivalent wide-angle image, and FotoNation’s red-eye compensation function for flash shots. Its battery comes from a proprietary lithium-ion rechargeable battery or optional AC adapter. The camera stores images on SD/SDHC cards or 52MB of built-in memory. There’s also USB 2.0 High-Speed computer connectivity and NTSC / PAL video out which will help one to see the photos or movies on a television. The Pentax Optio Z10 camera weights 145g.

Canon cameras have more user-friendly features and the costs of these cameras are affordable too. The EOS 400D is one of that kinds which comes with a EF-S 18-15/3.5-5.6 lens and with the focal length that corresponds to approximately 28-90mm in 35mm format. Its image sensor size is 22.2×14.8mm. The imaging element type is CMOS sensor. It is effective pixels of approx. 10.10 megapixels. EOS 400D canon camera has various dust deletion features such as, sensor cleaning: auto, sensor cleaning: manual and dust delete data appended to image data. The image type is JPEG, RAW(12bit). The color space is sRGB, Adobe RGB. It uses USB port(USB 2.0 Hi-Speed) interface. It offers a variety of white balance settings with six presets and two other options such as auto and custom settings. It has a built-in-pop-up flash with guide number of 13m at ISO 100. The working range of the flash will vary depending on the lens you use and the ISO settings. It uses E-TTL II flash metering system. It has a large 2.5-inch TFT LCD color monitor on the back with approximately 230,000 pixels and improved viewing angle. The shutter speeds are 1/4000 to 30 sec.(1/3 and ½ stop increments), bulb, X-sync at 1/200 sec. EOS 400D canon camera uses CF card as a storage device and is powered by a Li-Ion battery.

For every casual photography lover the Tech-Com DSC-601 is the basic camera for day-to-day shooting. With its compact size the camera is easy to handle and is very light. The image sensor is ½.5” CCD type. It has approx. 6.186 effective Mega pixels(2864×2160) and approx.6.369 total Mega pixels. The focal length is 5.84mm(35mm film equivalent:35mm). F No. is F3.5/F7.0. The digital zoom has Capture Mode:5x, Play Mode:2-8x. The LCD Display is of 2.0”(diagonal 5cm) color a-Si TFT LCD (479X240), 115k. there is no optical viewfinder. The focusing type is fixed focus with two steps manual adjustment. The ranges are, Macro mode: 20cm; Normal: 1.0m to infinity. The speed in normal is 2sec.-1/1000sec and in night sense,8 sec.-1/1000sec. About the exposure- Control: programmed AE, compensation-/+2EV, ISO and Equivalent: auto, 100,200,400. The flash modes are auto/ auto and red-eye reduction/ slow sync/ fill-in/ off. Range is 0.2~3.0m, (recharging time: approx.: 7sec.). various white balance options are available such as auto/ daylight/ cloudy/ custom/ fluorescent/ tungsten/ sunset. The effect is B/W, Normal, Sepia, RGB custom. The various sharpness adjustments are soft, normal, vivid. It has multi and spot metering mode. The self timer is of 10sec., 2sec., double(no flash) with LED indicator. The storage media consist of internal memory: 32MB flash memory, external memory: sup porting SD/MMC Card. Power source is 2 pcs of AA alkaline/ 2 pcs of Ni-MH. The dimensions of the camera are 95.5×52.2×29.7mm (WxHxD) and thickness is 26.9mm. It weights approx. 90g without batteries and card. This camera is a good option for people who just want to point-and-shoot without zoom and creative controls and the 6-MP resolution is an additional advantage.