Posted at Tue Apr 5 12:00:00 2005
A little rain never hurt anyone, you may have said to yourself without springing for one of the environmentally sealed compact digital cameras on the market, but certainly you'd never think of going scuba diving with your camera. Unless you happened to have one of the new 5MP Pentax Optio WP cameras, that is. The Pentax Optio WP is JIS8 certified, meaning it can be submerged to a depth of 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) for thirty minutes. The camera is compact—easy to store in a pocket—with a 3x (38mm-114mm equivalent) lens, a responsive shutter release, and a large 2" LCD on the back with live histogram. Otherwise it's quite mediocre, with fully automatic controls and JPEG only recording.