Digital cameras: Compare features & prices Pentax X-5 review

The Pentax X-5 is a digital compact camera with an impressive 26x optical zoom. This should be great at bringing distant scenes right up close, but can the building stabilisation feature in this compact camera cope with such a long zoom lens?
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Pentax X-5

  • Launch date: Oct 2012
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Specification
Optical zoom magnification 26.0
Resolution (Mp) 16.0
Test Date 30 November 2012
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