Pentax reviews this week
First of all, another big reviewer has put his hands on the K10D. Jeff Keller of DCRP has posted Pentax K10D review - and Samsung GX-10 is on the schedule.
Jeff liked K10D’s built quality and size, but complained the out of the box JPEG softness and “dull colors“:
Shooting JPEGs straight out of the box isn’t a good idea, as they’ll be soft and dull in color. You can resolve this by shooting RAW, increasing in-camera sharpening/contrast/saturation, or just using the bright image tone setting. Once you do I think you’ll be more than pleased with the K10’s output.
The effort to gain more film-like look played a bad joke on Pentax this time. Frankly, it’s more marketing than technology. Pentax should work more to spread its vision of image quality.
Russian gadgets review website iXBT published K100D test (auto translation). It’s a bit weird, because the author experienced lens installation difficulties. In his words the bayonet of K100D is too tight and got scratches after several lens changes. Also author disliked poor autofocus and continuous shooting performance, uncomfortable menu and focusing point selection.
Pentax A20 gets “Recommended (just)” from the DPReview. Simon Joinson (the review author) looks some disappointed by the A20 improvements over previous Pentax’s compact digicam flagship A10: “So does the A20 deliver the necessary improvements? The sad answer is not nearly enough.” Performance and ergonomics got the lowest marks from him (6.0 and 7.0 respectively), however the build quality rated pretty high - 8.5.
Impress Watch reviewed the new Pentax Optio M30 (auto translation) - overall impressions are good with the special praises to Auto Exposure. A load of real life samples included.
