Pentax has a good range of compact cameras. Pentax Optio M50 is an 8-megapixel camera with a price tag of less than $250. It sports features like 5x optical zoom lens, face recognition, auto exposure, and auto focus. The 2.5″ LCD monitor allows wide viewing angles. The camera comes with 51.1MB internal memory and supports SD cards.

Apart from a programmable shooting mode, Pentax Optio M50 also comes with different shooting modes – portraits, landscape, night-time, kids, and pets among others. In other words, the photographer only has to read the instructions to choose appropriate shooting modes and the camera will do the rest.

The face recognition technology helps to focus on up to 15 people in the frame. Smile detection and blink detection make sure the subjects are caught smiling and not with eyes closed.

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