Pentax Optio 550 - SD vs. MMC any thoughts on camera?

[The Dancing Peacock]

My brother is looking at buying the Optio 550. He doesn't want SLR qualities, He was a solid, high MP point and shoot. He might get into some shutter/aperture priority tweaking, but that's probably it. Anyone have any opinion on the camera?

Also the cam can handle both SD and MMC cards. I don't know too much about either of these, anyone know much about them? Is one much better than the other?

 

[RossMAN]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxoptio550/

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Thanks for the link Rossman, He and I both checked it out already.

He and I have been all over dpreview, steves-digicam, dcresource, and a couple of other sites, not too much info on Pentax as a digicam manufacturer, seem to have good film cameras though. Question is mainly about the SD and MMC cards, not sure which direction to go in.

 

[RossMAN]

I would go with SD (cheaper/easier to find) but they both suck compared to CF/SM.

I have brand new 256MB SD, if you're interested.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

afternoon bump

Thsi camera is too small to take CF cards. The specs on it say a CF card is about half as long as the camera is.

SM is essentially dead. No one is developing anything higher than 128. Fuji and Olympus were the 2 biggest supporters, and they have both gone to xD cards.

CF is cheap and widely used. I guess we'll see how xD does against SD and CF. SD from what I was reading was intended as the followup to CF.

 

[amnesiac]

I have a Pentax Optio S. I like it

Very small, portable, and user friendly.

Picture quality is nowhere near as good as my Canon S100 though. But it's only been indoors.. I'll check on outdoor pics this weekend.

I really, really, want to save up for a Canon D10.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

what don't you like about the picture quality? grainyness? What ISO settings did you take them on?