Pentax K10D hands-on report at Luminous Landscape
The old and trustworthy photo essays website Luminous Landscape has published Pentax K10D hands-on report by Michael Reichmann. The sub-title says: “Pentax Joins the Digital Big Leagues”.
Michael enjoys a lot of things: shake reduction (I found it to offer at least a two stop and sometimes three stop advantage over hand-held shooting without it), DNG, dust reduction feature, weather sealing, good AF (though I did find that it hunted a bit more in low light than what I’m used to with the Canon cameras with which I am familiar) and shooting speed, Auto ISO, post exposure in-camera RAW development. And the only serious weakness found is vertical banding on some ISO 1600 night shots.
In the second part of the article Michael makes a prediction of the future of the DSLR market: Canon and Nikon will remain the major players…
As for Pentax, the main subject of this page, the K10D could well be the beginning of their renaissance. Competition is what makes any market vibrant. Let’s hope that Pentax is successful in shaking up some of the market leaders, as well as in repositioning themselves as a potential major player. With the K10D I believe that they’ve got the product that can help them do this.
