Hi,

I have the Pentax Optio S4 and am reasonably happy with it. It is so small, I take it everywhere. I do mean everywhere.

It uses standard SD cards or MMC. I purchased a 512 MB SD card. I always take every picture with the highest resolution 4.23 MegaPixels and the least compression. It will store a couple hundred images at a time. At the lowest resolution/highest compression, I think it will store around 5,000 images. Has video and sound recording capability, too.

The camera also has zoom and crop capabilities built in. This helps to be certain that your subject was in focus.

I purchased a Body Glove cell phone clip that happens to fit it perfectly. Everyone just assumes I have a pager or cell phone on my belt. It's smaller than a business card and a little more than 1/2 inch thick.

As someone else mentioned, the flash isn't great. It's OK if the subject isn't too far away, though. Regarding red eye, I'm not sure why this would be an issue at all. It has the double-flash feature that eliminates red eye.

Depending on what you are using the camera, I think it would be a wise purchase, especially if you want it for a go-everywhere camera.

Later,
Tim in Hollywood