Pentax's latest bridge camera dons the armour of a DSLR, but boasts the accessibility of a compact camera.

With a Sony sensor, an f/1.8 lens and vintage looks, the Pentax MX-1 sounds good on paper - but how does it deliver?

An 18x zoom lens, 16 megapixel resolution and cheap price demands your attentionin a take-anywhere pocket compact camera.

Does a snapshot camera really need two shutter release buttons? Pentax's 20x optical zoom VS20 thinks so.

Complete with changeable covers and lens rings, the RS1500 can be dressed up or down for any occasion.

Is the Pentax Option W60 waterproof camera a damp squib?

Not only do they work well, Pentax cameras look neat and tidy - or at least they did until the Optio Z10 came along. When the rest of the camera world is going svelte, this little Pentax has gone lumpy and dumpy.

A camera that has dinky little dials and buttons is all very well for James Bond, but what about the rest of us who have stubby chipolata-sized digits? Well, the Pentax Optio T30 offers a solution in the form of a touchscreen that actually works rather well

The standout feature of this basic point-and-shoot digital camera is the touchscreen display, which transforms the way you take and edit pictures. So what's so great about touchscreen? Mainly the way it gets rid of all those fiddly buttons

We've long been enamoured with the Canon's Ixus range, but the new Optios are equally attractive. Take the S6: from the front it takes the concept of a simple silver rectangular box with a lens totally to heart...

Budget is good. Budget flights, budget holidays, budget fashion labels, sticking to the budget - it's all so now. But what about budget cameras? Are they a good thing or just cheap and nasty?

If the emperor bought a digital camera to go with his set of new clothes, it would certainly be a 10-megapixel model. Few 'advances' in photography have raised so many problems as the leap from 7MP and 8MP sensors to 10MP

Take any digital camera, submerge it in water and you'd have an expensive mistake, unless you happen to be using the Pentax Optio WPi. Unique throughout pretty much the whole digital compact market, the WPi is completely waterproof.

Pentax make a whole range of point and- click cameras, but the stylish Optio A10 is the current flagship model in the compact line-up, and is a more than worthy holder of that lofty position

The build quality of the Optio WP is more crucial than normal because it's designed to be used underwater. Pentax says that you can take the camera down to a depth of 1.5m

There's more to the Optio WPi's build quality than meets the eye, as it's completely sealed against the elements to the extent that you can submerge it underwater for up to 30 minutes, at depths of up to 1.5m

If there's one major advantage a stills camera which is capable of taking video has over a camcorder, it's size. In the case of Pentax's super-stylish Optio S6 this point is hammered home even more clearly due to its amazingly diminutive nature

Destined for the great outdoors, the sporty 5-megapixel Optio WP iswaterproof. It can be immersed at depths of up to 1.5m forapproximately 30 minutes, and rinsed free of sand and dirt.