Pentax is getting ready to roll out a new 8-megapixel digital camera with a very slim form factor. The Optio V10 will be priced at around $250.

The Pentax Optio V10 is quite slim with its 3/4-inch aluminum alloy body. It sports a 3-inch LCD monitor with a 170-degree viewing angle. Zoom features include 3x optical and 4x digital, giving a total zoom capability of 12x. It also comes with shake reduction, face recognition and auto picture mode functions.

Pentax this week unveiled a new 12-megapixel, compact digital camera. The Pentax Optio A40 is priced at around $300.

The Pentax Optio A40 offers up a 1/1.7 inch CCD for a wider light receiving area. It is outfitted with three types of shake reduction – mechanical, digital, movie – to help with better shots under adverse photo taking conditions. There’s also a face recognition function with several modes which help better detect and focus on facial shots.

This week BenQ announces an upgraded version of their C740i camera with the C840. The new model features a 2.5 inch LTPS screen with an 8MP resolution and 3X optical zoom. The camera allows for full control over the outcome of the image with its P/Av/Tv/M feature.

The C840 is equipped with a Pentax lens facilitating 99.8% light penetration making it the most light sensitive camera in its class. An emphasis on widescreen shooting and an optional 16:9 resolution ratio for HDTV display shows that BenQ is forward thinking with this camera. MJPEG videos are shot at a near DVD quality 720×400 resolution at 30 frames per second and are optionally stored in its 4GB internal storage or SDHC card, support for which is an upgrade from the C740i counterpart.

In advance of the super-sexy sounding Photo Marketing Association International Trade Show (that’s PMA to the cool kids in the photo club), Pentax has revealed the specs on two new cameras, the Optio A30 and the waterproof W30.

The A30 is DivX certified, has a 1 1/8-inch CCD sensor, 3X smc Pentax zoom lens, improved Shake Reduction technology for low-light and telephoto shots, Face Recognition software and can grab 10.0 megapixels of resolution for your photos. For its worth the W30 also incorporates Face Recognition technology and has enough battery time for two hours underneath …

Today Pentax released two new digital cameras to their line of point and shoot models.

The Pentax Optio T30 (pictured top) is a thin camera sporting a 3 inch touch screen LCD monitor. The large touch screen panel has built-in drawing functionality to edit images directly on the camera, and also functions as the menu navigation interface. The touch screen, which is the main feature in this model, has 230,000 pixels packed into the 3 inch space and offers a 170 degree viewing angle. The T30 has facial recognition and auto focusing along with a …

BenQ recently introduced the X720, a 7 megapixel digital camera with the world’s slimmest body measuring in at a slender 12.5 mm. The X720 features a smc Pentax lens, 3x optical zoom, 1/2.5 inch CCD image sensor and a bright 2.5 inch LCD display. Other functions include:

S.S.F (Super Shake-Free) system allows the user to record photographs and videos with brighter, more natural color.
Supports high light sensitivity of up to ISO 1200 and up to ISO 4000 in recording mode. This helps to facilitate shooting fast-moving objects or taking photos in poor lighting …