Pentax espio 60s manual

If you like 35mm point-and-shoot cameras, check out my review of another in the IQZoom series, the SL here. Or check out all of my camera reviews here. Even though cameras like this were meant for color film, I loaded black-and-white T-Max into it and took it on a walk around the Broad Ripple neighborhood in Indianapolis.

As you can see, the IQZoom 60 does good work. The lens is sharp and has no obvious distortion. I have four complaints about the IQZoom First, that viewfinder, as I described earlier. Third, it felt clumsy and plasticky in my hand.

Fourth, the combination shutter-zoom button was rubbery and blubbery. Sometimes I had to press the shutter button twice to get it to fire. Unfortunately, the button to zoom in was dead on this camera. I worked around it by putting the camera in macro mode, which zoomed the lens to the max, and then zooming out from there. I used it in the photos above and below. At least the viewfinder is accurate. But on the IQZoom 60, if you can manage to see the framing lines, whatever is inside them is actually in the frame, and nothing more.

To see more from this camera, check out my Pentax IQZoom 60 gallery. The Pentax IQZoom 60 is not great — its negatives far outweigh its positives. If you like old film cameras, check out all of my reviews here! To get Down the Road in your inbox or feed reader, subscribe here. The IQZoom series is definitely a mix of good and not so. At least you liked the SL, which is definitely slimmer than this brick. I got my hands on another member of the IQZoom family.

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