The Pentax T30 is an ultra-compact digital camera that has a touchscreen for menu navigation and image manipulation instead of buttons. From the front it looks like any other modern, elegant camera, but turn it around and you quickly see that this is a totally different animal.

The Pentax T-Series is unique insofar as virtually the entire interface is touch instead of using the conventional hardware buttons and controls. There is a huge 3-inch LCD with a touchscreen (see picture below) but all other controls are gone except for a menu button and a record/playback toggle. Now why would Pentax do that just when the industry has finally settled on a more or less standard button and control arrangement? And how difficult is it to figure it all out? Those are good questions. But keep in mind that the T30 is already the third touchscreen model Pentax offers. The T10 and T20 were very similar, so there must be enough demand for something bold and different to rapidly evolve the T-Series.
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