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There’s also a digital shake-reduction system called Digital SR. Pentax has wisely refrained from describing Digital SR as a full-blown anti-shake mechanism because all it does it boost the shutter speed and set the aperture automatically to reduce blurring. Needless to say, Digital SR is hardly the most effective shake-reduction system around. Oh, and you can also use a face-recognition system when selecting the auto, portrait or natural skin tone modes.

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Pentax Optio M40 digital compact camera
When shooting outdoors, the Optio M40 is capable of producing some impressive results
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Pentax Optio M40 digital compact camera
The 3x optical zoom seems to offer a greater magnification than its spec would suggest
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Pentax Optio M40 digital compact camera
The biggest problem is that the ISO setting is boosted far too high in auto mode
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Pentax Optio M40 digital compact camera
By adjusting the ISO setting to 100, you can see the improvement
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Kinda disagree....

.... got one of these for my missus as a general camera (she doesn't like using any of my SLR's).

I must admit as a happy-joe-click-all camera it fairs fine, if you have this camera for simply just taking a fairly decent shot then it's great. Most Joe Public's don't even know that the orange glow isn't actually supposed to be there so in terms of it's quality in low-level light conditions, I don't think it fails that miserably. Obviously if you know it shouldn't be there and you find the quality in low-light to be poor, your also obviously someone that should have a better camera from the start.

All in all I would have ranked the score maybe another 5% or so higher (this coming from someone who carries around a 350D all the time as play camera).

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