It started back in August 2010 when I borrowed this for a "quick" test. I was so impressed that I subsequently bought the camera and it has gone everywhere with me for almost 3 years.

Pentax Optio 60

The picture to your right was what clinched this relationship. It was early one morning while I was waiting for the cafe to open when I took this shot inside the shopping centre, don't tell the management. The way it coped with the mixture of natural, tungsten and fluorescent lighting and still returned an honest picture amazed me somewhat. I certainly didn't expect this from a compact. At this point I decided that this needed taking out in the field for some real work and it has yet to disappoint me. Yes, it has it's limitations but the good far outweighs the bad. I can honestly say that I have taken more useable pictures with this than almost any other camera. It ranks within my top 5 digitals and is the number one compact to date. 

I have created a gallery of images from this camera which I have put here at larger than normal size because I wanted to show how capable this little compact is. As with the image above it was the richness and honesty of colour and saturation which impressed me so much.