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Guest writer Gary Sims is a freelance technology consultant from the UK. He is the senior blogger of the Hi-Tech Squad.

Pentax has just launched the Optio P80 the successor to the fashionable and popular P70. The new P80 doesn’t stray much from the original design of the P70 and at first glance you could just think that Pentax have justed added a new coat of paint to an old product. In fact the Pentax has kept the same 12-megapixel sensor and 4x optical zoom found on the Optio P70 but the P80 does have some new features to boast about.

Pentax has improved the Automatic Face Detection and can now recognize faces at an angle or tilted to the side. The Pentax Optio P80 has a Digital Wide mode for panoramic shots and a Frame Composite Function, which tacks on a decorative photo frame to an image. The Pentax Optio P80 can also reach 6400 ISO, but at a smaller resolution.

The Pentax Optio P80 will ship in September for $200 and will be available in Black, Pearl and Mint.

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