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#250937 - 03/03/2005 14:30 Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV?
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
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Thinking of getting this but feedback would be appreciated

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#250938 - 03/03/2005 14:45 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
CrackersMcCheese
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Oh now I don't know...

A Canon Ixus 500, 700 ?

A Canon Powershot S60 ?

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#250939 - 03/03/2005 15:39 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
peter
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A Canon Powershot S60?

If you're looking at that, look also at the Olympus C70.

Peter

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#250940 - 04/03/2005 19:59 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
schofiel
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My sister in law has one, and is very impressed (not difficult). It is comparable with my IXUS 500, with which you will no doubt remember from the Amersfoort meet, am also highly impressed with. Both are good cameras. Worth the money.
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#250941 - 06/03/2005 13:44 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: schofiel]
CrackersMcCheese
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Yeah I think I'll get the Ixus 500 or maybe the new 700.

So... compact flash cards? I'll start another post

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#250942 - 06/03/2005 19:50 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: schofiel]
CrackersMcCheese
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With the Ixus 500, what is the delay like when taking a photo? Is there a huge lag between pressing the button to take a photo and the image being recorded?

Also what kind of CF card would you recommend?

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#250943 - 06/03/2005 20:58 Re: Anyone have the Pentax Optio SV? [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
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Loc: Manchester UK
I've got an Ixus 500, there is setting in the menu called Quick Shot which you can set. However I've found it very fast in either mode, startup is quick too. It also has a fast shutter mode which will fire off a load of shots in quick sucession which get buffered up and written to the CF card.

The 700 looks good, the bit that looks really cool is the 60FPS slowmo video capture mode.

As for the CF card, I just bought a 1GB card from Scan for about £40, seems fine.
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