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Pentax K10D

The K10D is my second Pentax DSLR. I owned a *ist DL previously. The DL was a nice little camera that gave very good image quality, but it was a totally underwhelming camera. Plain, uninspiring, slow with a 3 frame buffer, but cheap.

The K10D, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. Fast and feature rich, this camera represents the best value in a DSLR today. What else can get you 10 MegaPixels, Anti-Shake, weather sealing, dust removal and unmatched compatibility with legacy lenses for $600 brand new?

One of the best selling point of this camera is the anti-shake feature. Basically any lens you mount on it will become stablized. From a few days of use, I find the anti-shake to be a great feature, but not as effective as I had hoped. It can easily give you 2 stops of advantage over non-stabilized lenses. The body based anti-shake is very different than the lens based, like that from Canon and Nikon. Lens based stabilization lets you see the affect in the view finder whereas body based will not.

Well, nothing is perfect, but this camera comes pretty darn close for the money. The jpeg engine is not as good as it could be and this would be a problem if you shoot jpeg. But, I never do, so this is a non-issue for me. Noise is well controlled, but not nearly as good as the Canon with its amazing CMOS sensor.

There is only one thing I do not like, or perhaps I should say, I can not get used to it yet. It is the placement of the front and back wheels. In my opinion, the front wheel is badly placed. On the Canon, the front wheel is right next to the shutter button and the index finger finds it where it should be. The Pentax front wheel is below the index finger and it is awkward to find the wheel and then turn it.

The same goes for the back wheel, although not as bad as the front wheel. The Canon has a huge command wheel that turns easily with the thumb without moving the position of the thumb while holding the camera, but to turn the Pentax back wheel, I have to move my thumb to near the top of the camera to turn the wheel. I am sure this is all a matter of getting used to, but it's a struggle when I have two different cameras.
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