After moaning about the poor quality of the flash (indoor) photographs I decided to take my camera back to the retailer who sold it to me. They said I shouldn't expect any better but reluctantly agreed to send it back to Pentax for testing. I have fetched it today and nothing has improved . My old camera took better and sharper pictures.
I think they call the problem "noise" in the trade but basically the indoor photos are all grainy and not at all sharp. Tried it on different ISO settings but no improvement. Everything looks dull. I had no complaints about the outdoor photography. I bought it because of its compact size which I found really useful.
Waste of money, I should have stuck with my old camera! ...
Advantages: Great build quality, easy to use and good picture quality. Disadvantages: No image stabalisation and no wide angle capability in the lens.
rather than great quality because if you want great quality then quite simply you need a DSLR not a point and shoot.
Pentax are one of the original so called big 5, the 5 best known names in the camera market, along side the likes oc Canon, Nikon, Olympus and the now collapsed Minolta which has recently been taken over by Sony, well not exactly taken over but Sony design their DSLR cameras around the old Minolta workings which allows the old Minolta lenses to work on the new Sony bodies, anyhow, I digress.
Pentax having been around for so long have seen and done it all and it shows in this great little point and shoot camera, it has 10 megapixels (more than enough), a 5X zoom (more than enough) and it offers some great user settings that will keep even the most avid amateur very happy and what's more it actually produces images that ...
thebigc1690 28.04.2009 (17.05.2009)
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Advantages: Unlimited use Disadvantages: Need to buy a flash separate
In this age of high technology automatic electronic equipment it pays to take a step back to the simple things such as the Pentax K1000 camera. The fully manual 35mm SLR obviously requires complete user control but for the photographer who doesn’t want to be limited by a camera’s ability, this is the one for you.
The only power needed is for the exposure meter from a small battery which is activated when the lens cap is removed. The built-in through-the-lens meter measures the average brightness of the ground glass at full aperture and then couples to the aperture, shutter and film speed settings. The shutter mechanism is completely manual meaning that the camera can still be used even when the battery is exhausted, with a little guess work for the exposure. The focal plane shutter extends from speeds B, 1 second to 1 ...
hakkved 09.03.2001 (07.03.2001)
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