Pentax Optio 330gs Review

Turning the mode dial to the Play position brings up the last image captured in full screen mode with the exposure data information overlayed. Pressing the Display button will remove the overlay data when you want to watch a slideshow on your TV screen.

Like the record mode, in playback you can enable the histogram.

Pressing the OK button brings up the thumbnail index mode, here you can quickly search through the stored images and select one for full screen playback.

While an image is displayed full screen you can magnify it by pressing the telephoto side of the zoom lens control. Once magnified you can scroll around inside of it using the 4-way selector.

Movie clips playback fullscreen, the 4-way selector acts as the start, stop and pause control. You can pause a movie and play it forwards or backwards one frame at a time.

A very limited play mode menu, one option is for initiating an automatic slideshow and the other is for setting the DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) printing information.

The Setup menu (same in record and play) lets you Format the CF card, enable or disable the beep sounds when buttons are pushed, set the date style, change the date and or time, set the world time zone or change the menu language.

Page two of the Setup menu lets you set the video format (NTSC or PAL), set the Sleep timeout value (90s, 1m, 2m), LCD brightness or Reset to factory defaults.