Last week’s reviews
Klaus Schroiff at PhotoZone has reviewed Pentax SMC-DA 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED entry level telephoto zoom and has got surprisingly bad results:
The resolution characteristic of the lens is rather mediocre - specifically the image borders are often soft at large aperture settings.
Must be because he has take faulty (and than repaired) copy of 50-200mm, as he noted in his review.
ePhotoZine have tested Samsung GX10 DSLR. Nothing really new, just some rumblings about how Samsung manual worse indexed than Pentax one.
IT Reviews have finally put their hands on Pentax K100D:
An affordable, solidly built and versatile digital SLR with a host of improved features over the previous ‘*ist’ series, resulting in outstanding picture quality and shake reduction.
DigitalCameraInfo have named Pentax Optio W30 “the best value in the waterproof digital camera category“:
With waterproof, dustproof (and kid-proof) abilities, the Optio W30 functions as an all-around camera that can be transported on land or water. It also includes basic PDA functions such as alarm and calendar.
July 13th, 2007 at 2:18 am
That’s kind of surprising, wonder what happened? I’ve always heard that it is a fine budget lens. I would like to get a Pentax lens or two when I get my SLR kit (50mm f/1.4 for one) but I’ll start with the Tamron 18-200mm so that will cover the range of the two budget kit lenses from Pentax. After that I’ll wait and see.