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Pentax Optio S6 review

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The sensor is remarkably clean until ISO 400, where it exhibits an ugly multicoloured noise pattern. But it also yields a sometimes oversharpened, videocam look with white halos around high-contrast areas, as well as poor shadow detail. All is not poor in the S6's image, though. Colours, including flesh tones, are natural and pleasing and flash exposure is even and accurate, with an additional Soft Flash option for close-ups.

The Pentax Optio S6 is a great camera -- as long as you're shooting slow-moving subjects for 100x150mm prints or Web galleries. For real snapshot photography, it's just OK.

Shooting speed
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Typical shot-to-shot time
Time to first shot
Shutter lag (typical)
Casio Exilim Pro EX-P600
1.8
2.7
0.3
Casio Exilim Pro EX-Z110
1.8
1.7
0.6
Sanyo Xacti VPC-E6
2.3
2
0.7
Nikon Coolpix S4
2.8
2.5
0.8
Olympus FE-120
2.6
4.9
1.3
Pentax Optio S6
5.2
4.9
1.5
Note: Seconds

Typical continuous-shooting speed
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Sanyo Xacti VPC-E6
3.0
Olympus FE-120
1.2
Nikon Coolpix S4
1.1
Pentax Optio S6
0.8
Casio Exilim Pro EX-Z110
0.7
Casio Exilim Pro EX-P600
0.6
Note: Frames per second


Edited by Lori Grunin
Additional editing by Kate Macefield

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