Pentax Optio 230
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Another big difference among the two Optios deals with the meter reading in backlit situations. Using the multi-pattern metering option, the Optio 230 will give you an acceptable picture, while the Optio 330 will underexpose too much in case there is a lot of bright sky in the picture. On the contrary, when the bright sky is a little part of the picture, the 330 will give you better exposed images than the 230. However, the Optio 330 also has manual exposure setting (missing in the 230), which will always come to your rescue, allowing you to get the result you want. Hello, auto-everything fans, do you still believe manual exposure to be a practically useless feature for the old-fashioned? For me, this feature alone is worth buying the Optio 330 over the 230. Oh, by the way, as you can see all images are perfect about flare control, pretty usual with Pentax glass.
Speaking of macro shooting, the Optio 230 can get as close as 10cm to the subject, as opposed to the 14cm of the Optio 330. You could crop a 3-Megapixel (2048x1524pixel) image of the Optio 330 down to 2 Megapixel (1600x1200 pixel) and get the Optio 230 image. That means that you’ll get more or less the same amount of pixel on the same image detail with both cameras, but the extra pixels of the Optio 330 will frame a wider image. As you can see, smaller details are about the same in both pictures. Again, different cast on images.
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