The Pentax Optio RS1500 is easily customizable with home-made skinsPentax’s Optio RS1500 is more noticeable for its looks that what is going on inside, but still, for $150 it is a pretty decent pocket cam, with a three-inch LCD, a 14 megapixel sensor, 27.5-100mm (35mm equivalent) zoom and 720p video. But the real gimmick is the skins.
The camera has a removable faceplate, secured and released by a lock-ring around the lens. Behind this clear plate you can put various skins. Ten come with the camera, but it gets more interesting when you use an Adobe Air app to design and print your own PDFs. If I was doing this, I’d take a photograph of the camera and then print that to put on the front of the camera. It would match my life-size full-body tattoo.
The skin design was first seen on last year’s RS1000, but changing them meant unscrewing screws, which is clearly not something that will be done often by the casual customizer. The Optio RS1500 will be available in April, for the aforementioned $150.
RS1500 product page [Pentax]
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