First K10D owners
First Pentax K10D digital cameras hit the shelves last Saturday. The first luckies in the US were able to buy their K10Ds at the San Diego Photo Expo. Internet started to fill up with the real life samples and user reviews from now.
Ned Bunnell was among of the first owners (did anybody doubt it). You can read his impressions over the first shots at his blog post “A few K10D snapshots“: “I shot in AV mode at f/8.0 and let the camera meter without any EV adustments on my part. Histograms were nicely distributed and there’s good detail in the shadow areas. The surfing shot is interesting especially if you look at the rays of light falling across the shoulder of the surfer, and then the shadows around the board. The shot of my wife in her Peets hat was in direct and extremely bright sun…consequently her shirt is pretty blown out, but the detail in the hat and hair is pretty nice.“
This photo album by William L. Leven (thanks to javi for the link) demonstrates K10D’s ISO 1600 performance. A dozen indoors full size samples made with the kit lens (DA 18-55) shows great high ISo performance.
A downsized K10D images from LaRee can be found in this gallery. Kit lens and DA 50-200.
More user’s opinions and real life shots coming soon. Stay tuned and share your links.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:50 am
Wonderful, so the K10D is finely here. I looked at the 1600 ISO shots to determine if the improvement in the noise is good enough to take the plunge. I have an istDL and recently upgraded to K100D for my figure skating photography. Looking at the ISO 1600 shots it seems I don’t have to think long. They look good enough. Figure skating is done indoors with very little light…