Pentax Optio 330GS

Opinion: Bought the Pentax 330GS on December 23 2002, to this day I have taken over
40,000 picture with this little camera. It renewed my interest in photography. It has
limitations but for a basic 3MP digital camera it has been reliable and under the
right condition can take very good pictures.

Pros:
Very durable, 40,000 pictures and counting.
Tough, survived being dropped several times.
Uses AA batteries.
LCD flips forward great for taking self portraits.

Opinion: kellyme you are a retard the camera is fantastic! have you checked your eyesight recently? i suggest getting some glasses :)

Opinion: Easy to use, excellent images.

Opinion: I bought this camera last night from Jessops for an amazing price of £190! BARGAIN! Discontinued stock, they told me.
I have owned a Sony P71, and a Nikon 880 since moving over from 35mm to digital.
I can honestly say that the quality of images leaves the others standing. Especially night shots as there is virtually no noise, due to the noise reduction facility.
Settings could be better, no aperature or shutter control, but excellent white balance and exposure control.
I wanted a smaller compact camera with good quality, I am not into photography as much as I used to due to time, but still wanted image quality. This camera fits the bill perfectly!

Also, the swing screen - alot of people are saying it is not much use, but on a sunny day with the sun behind you, you can pull out the screen to reduce relection by changing the angle. Excellent idea.

Opinion: "+" An EXCELLENT camera for the beginner! Makes very good pictures in good light. Fits well in your pocket. CF and AA are relatively cheap and widely available. It has clear menus and good controls. It makes you dependant of digital photography.
"-" You should use the manual settings available, especially white balance, othewise you will lose the right colour. In dark areas you will see significant noise. Bright reds tend to be over saturated. Movie mode could be better. The swing-out display and 3D mode are nice to have, but you never need them.

Opinion: I have been very impressed by this camera. The controls fall easily to hand and the results are excellent. I am particularly impressed with the macro facility. I got better results once I set the colour and sahrpness to a higher value. The 3D featrurte is a bit of a gimmick as is the movie sfunction. A couple of small short comings, no flash synch outlet or hot shoe and no uncompressed file format. I like the way you can record camera setting .
Overall a good point and shoot camera.

Opinion: I bought an 330GS two months ago. Dropped it with the lens open the second day. No harm done. Very well built
Extreme good value for the money

Opinion: I have had this camera for about a month and really like it. I love the form factor and features. All plastic but top build quality, with the possible exception of the rubber port covers. However, as I also bought a CF card reader, I don't intend to use them very often.

Looked first at the 230 last summer but wanted a 3mp camera. This fills the need. Unfortuantely it was just replace by the Optio33L, with a 360 deg swivel LDC instead of the 330GS's 180 deg LCD, which, frankly is a bit of a farse, but really not a negative, since most people will seldom use it. Hope the 33L is as good/better. The 330GS is now a discontinued model so act fast if you want one. I wish Pentax would follow Canon's and Fuji's examples and offer models to the market for more than 6 - 8 months.

Still, an excellent camera and outstanding features value. VERY easy to use and learn the more advanced features. Night shot mode is very good.

Software is adequate, but Canon's SW package is superior to ACDSee, in my opinion. Still, the automatic adjustment/settings do a decent job. Much better than what Kodak offers with cameras in this price range.

Really good camera. I'm happy so far.

Opinion: I'm a beginer in a digital photography and photography all together.
Recently bought Optio 330GS ( I was buying Optio 220, but a good saleswoman convinsed to get this one), so far seems like a good camera and no major problems found.
I really like the swing-out display feature cause it so usefull to take self-pictures.
Haven't really tried any complecated features such as "manual focus" and "macros" but hopefully will experiment them in a near future.