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Advantages: 10.1 megapixel digital camera, well built, dazzling pictures, loads of features Disadvantages: Price
The Pentax K10D is one of those cameras that costs the Earth and is only really considered by those seriously into their photography. It is not designed as a point and click camera, instead utilizing advanced features, a superior lens and all round range of features that leave the professional drooling at just the mention of its name.
Growing up Pentax was always a brand associated with photography quality and when designing and releasing ... ...
A brand new Pentax K10D will cost in the region of £500-£750 and most good camera stores will stock at least one, with any potential purchased having to be ordered in but online you will find a number of retailers who keep these in stock for immediate availability.
Shopping around is highly advisable as you will find the Pentax K10D closer the price range online.
The Pentax K10D is one of those cameras that costs the Earth and is only really considered by those seriously into their photography. It is not designed as a point and click camera, instead utilizing advanced features, a superior lens and all round range of features that leave the professional drooling at just the mention of its name.
Growing up Pentax was always a brand associated with photography quality and when designing and releasing the K10D onto the market it is clear that Pentax have retained all of their old qualities instead of going down the smaller is better route they have stuck with tradition and produced a camera that looks and performs how a camera should. Far too advanced for my own needs my experiences given here will be from the demonstrations I have performed for customers.
Cost & Availability:
A brand new Pentax K10D will cost in the region of £500-£750 and most good camera stores will stock at least one, with any potential purchased having to be ordered in but online you will find a number of retailers who keep these in stock for immediate availability.
Shopping around is highly advisable as you will find the Pentax K10D closer the price range online.
What you get for your money:
A standard package will contain the camera, the battery, a USB cable and the camera software. As we are rarely asked to demonstrate this model we did not have the software for the camera loaded onto any of the laptops within our store. When asked to provide a demonstration recently I actually took the software and loaded it without reading the installation guide in less than 5 minutes much to my, and the customers satisfaction. The installation guide is actually bigger than the instruction manual due to the number of special effects that can be used when playing around with downloaded pictures. There is the red eye removal that comes with most camera software but also a distortion piece, the option to smear sections of photographs and a blurring for backgrounds to bring out objects the foreground making that little bit crisper and clearer without having to go out and take an other shot.
With a camera in the professional price range as you would expect the instruction manual is packed with jargon and technical detail which would give any entry level photographer a headache within minutes.
Size, look and feel:
Weighing well over 700g without the battery and 920g with it inserted the Pentax K10D is one hell of a heavy piece of equipment that just feels solidly built as soon as it is in your hands. Rather than being cumbersome, the weight is reassuring. By the weight you can guess that it is quite a large camera being 14.1cm across, 10.1cm high and 7cm deep.
I have attached a picture of the camera for reference as Ciao do not seem to have one and you would be mistaken to thinking you were looking a SLR rather than digital model. The telltale giveaway is the rear of the camera where the 2.5 inch LCD monitor which acts as a viewfinder but also reproduces pictures once they have been taken.
Technical Stuff:
*PENTAX-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system 10.1 megapixel CCD High-precision SAFOX VIII 11-point auto focus Sensitivity equivalent to ISO 100 to 3200 Large 2.5-inch LCD monitor
My thoughts:
The Pentax K10D is a fantastic camera, but you would expect that if you had just paid so much for it. The fact that it can take 3.3 images per second makes this a great camera for the paparazzi, professional photographer who takes portraits or an enthusiast who would not honestly be disappointed with the pictures produced.
If asked to make a recommendation to a professional making a purchase with a budget of between £500-£1000 I would have no problem in taking them immediately to the Pentax K10D. Once you have it in your hands and seen the out of this world pictures that are produced with exceptional colour depth you will not want to put it down.
Advantages: Extreme weather seals, image stabalisation, dust removal, SV and MTF Disadvantages: Not for beginners, hi ISO noise
...came the reviews of the Pentax K10D in the Magazines and their view was that it compares very closely to the Nikon D200.
I looked around and found a great deal at £615.00 with kit lens and 1gig extreme III SD card and the screw on battery pack.
I set the camera up and was blown away by the image quality on minimal settings. I couldn't have asked for a better camera to start off with really but it's not for total beginners as there are no scene ...
mick007789 02.05.2008 (13.05.2008)
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Fill-in mode, rear curtain sync, auto mode, flash OFF mode, red-eye reduction, P-TTL
Red Eye Reduction
Built-in
Features
AF illuminator, flash +/- compensation, Flash +/- compensation
Lens system
Auto Focus
TTL phase detection
Auto Focus Points (Zones)
11
Lens System Mounting
Pentax KAF2
Type
Zoom lens - 18 mm - 55 mm - f/3.5-5.6 DA Pentax KAF
Focal Length
18 mm - 55 mm
Focus Adjustment
Automatic, manual
Min Focus Range
25 cm
Max View Angle
76 degree(s)
Lens Aperture
F/3.5-5.6
Optical Zoom
3 x
Zoom Adjustment
Manual
Lens Construction
9 group(s) / 12 element(s)
Filter Size
52 mm
Additional features
Self Timer Delay
2sec, 12sec
Flash Terminal
Hot shoe
Additional Features
Direct print, USB 2.0 compatibility, RGB primary colour filter, auto power save, digital noise reduction, DPOF support, display brightness control, depth-of-field preview button, PRINT Image Matching, water resistant, dust resistant, PictBridge support, histogram display, AE lock, AF lock
Self Timer
Built-in
Connections
Connector Type
1 x composite video output
1 x USB
Expansion Slot(s)
1 x SD Memory Card
Software
Software
Drivers & Utilities
System requirements for pc connection
Operating System Support
MS Windows XP, MS Windows 2000, Apple MacOS X 10.2 or later
Manufacturer's product description
The Pentax K10D digital SLR features an array of PENTAX innovations including 10.2 effective megapixels and a PENTAX-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system that effectively offers a 2.5 to 4 stop advantage for sharp, blur-free images even under difficult shooting conditions, such as macro and telephoto photography or low light.
Typically good Canon images. 
