I find the announcement exciting, even though I did just buy my
planned second body (another DS). The addition of C-AF in all
exposure modes and larger LCD are not enough to give me pause as I
only paid $579 for the DS body, where it will likely be some time
before the DS2 is available at that kind of price. The small number
of improvements to me indicates that the DS is quite good for the
slot it fills and the competition it's up against.
To me it sounds like they've done a good detail update on their
middle range body, now have a solid entry-level body in the DL model,
and I expect the top of the line body will be updated soon.
Godfrey
BTW:
I picked up the Digital Photographer issue yesterday in which they
compare the Nikon D70s, Canon 350D, Olympus E-300, and Pentax *ist
DS. Aside from one error on the Pentax I noticed (they said it didn't
do second curtain sync, which it does with a dedicated external
flash), they presented their test data well. I think they then drew
the wrong conclusions: the DS is the only one in the group that has a
pentaprism viewfinder, and to my reading the DS has the best noise
performance of all of them. They remarked on how nice the DS was in
the hand too.
- Re: New Digital SLR Products From Pentax Godfrey DiGiorgi
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