Had the chance to take the Pentaz Optio W90, the go-anywhere camera that's perfect for the outdoors, for an out and about recently, and came away with this set of images which were captured from the shaded entry and egress of an LRT station, looking across to the midst of the very warm and bright mid-morning sun.
Designed to be dustproof, and waterproof up to 6 meters, the camera is coldproof down to -10°C (14°F), and shock-resistant for drops of up to 1.2 meters. The W90 comes with a 5x zoom (28-140mm equivalent) lens, a 2.7-inch LCD, a Digital Microscope mode, HD video recording, and a face detection system that also recognizes up to three pet faces. The strength of the camera is, of course, with its CCD sensor, the standard for digital camera sensors from the early 80s till the late 2000s, which were acknowledged for their high-quality low-noise images
On the downside, the W90 does not have any optical image stabilizer for its lens. What is available, instead, is Pentax's Pixel Tracking Shake Reduction (which can be turned off), which applies digital processing to the images to smooth out the jitters. or a high-sensitivity anti-shake mode, which pushes the shutter speed and ISO up while giving you a 5-megapixel photo. Though neither is optimal, there wasn't much visible camera shake at maximum telephoto when standing still. There's a digital stabilizer for movies as well.
