With 28m coverage, the W60 has easily captured the entire yacht’s sail unlike those with 36mm which only just squeeze it all in.

The image is vibrant without going overboard and the crops detailed and sharp across most of the frame.

Like many compacts though there are subtle noise textures on flat areas of colour like the sky and sail when viewed at 100%.

We shot at a low angle here, where lesser camera’s screens can become quite hard to see, but a decent viewing angle on the W60’s made composition relatively easy.

In Auto sensitivity, the camera’s again selected 50 ISO here. The crops are sharp, again sharp across most of the frame with only a little softening in the corners.

The screen is reasonably easy to view underwater, and flash good for distances of a couple of meters. So long as your subject is relatively close, you can grab good shots.

Here the W60 again opted for its lowest sensitivity of 50 ISO to keep noise down. The subject isn’t 100% sharp, but we’re happy with the results.

Like most compacts though, it’s tricky to blur the background even when fully zoomed-in. The DOF is too large, even with the aperture close to its maximum. Viewed at 100%, the image is also exhibiting greater noise and an overall softening. Again normal for 10 Mpixel compacts.

Impressively there’s less geometric distortion than many compacts at 28mm from this distance, and the field is fairly flat, although becomes softer away from the centre with some fringing in the corners.

The increase to 400 ISO has brought greater noise, but the subject matter is quite forgiving.

Face detection once again locked-on fairly easily, although the metering system has arguably under-exposed a little here.

Flat areas of colour like skin tones and the orange jacket reveal a visible leap in noise, although we’re pleased to see Pentax resisting the urge to smear it out with processing. As such, there’s still a decent amount of detail present.

The W60 only offers digital stabilisation which increases the sensitivity, with reduced quality as a result. Here it would have gone for 3200 or 6400 ISO with poor results. Lack of optical or sensor-shift stabilisation is the biggest downside to the W60.

Looking at galleries from rival cameras, we’d say the W60 doesn’t perform as well at 1600 ISO, but then the others are hardly great at this sensitivity. So again, 1600 ISO should be avoided unless for emergency use or small emailed images.

The W60 also offers 3200 and 6400 ISO modes, operating at 5 Megapixels – see our High ISO Noise results.