Wa...nted a camera with better quality photographs yet easy to use, the Pentax X-5 16.0 MP has given me just that, it is very easy to use and you can view your pictures on a good sized screen and choose whether you wish to keep them. I am happy with all round aspects of the camera and think it is good value for money.
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Looking for bridge camera this is great
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Needed new batteries every other day.
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Where do I start? Model is no n...ew and is a couple of years old. It's not a professional's camera, nor is it £2,500 plus. Currently the x5 is around £150 new and around £90 used. Great Ricoh/Pentax brand, with loads of functions and features as in the 228 page user guide book, which I suggest you download before consider buying one. Fantastic for point and shoot stuff, good quality, nice feeling camera and not too heavy. Suitable for most people and good build and value. Ideally for someone with some or no knowledge of photography. The downsides, no hotshoe, no screw for lens filters or hood, no separate sound or slave flash options, no RAW, slower than some others and some functions, like panoramic mode is buried in the menus and not on a knobs, to select, quickly. And some other cameras have better optical zoom and better stabilisation. All that said I think it's great and takes really good photos of all types with ease. I love it and have just got it a remote control and a case.