In a message dated 8/21/2006 1:23:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently shoot ME Super with 35-105 f/3.5 and 70-210 f/4 but would rather move to auto-focus since I not too sure if I can use MF lenses without any manual focus assist on the K100D.
Thanks a lot! Gaurav ========= Stupid question on this list, everyone is going to tell you the K100D is better. :-) I have the Canon 300D and like it quite a bit. However, the 350D (Digital Rebel XT) is supposed to have the worst viewfinder of probably all the Canon DSLRs. Worse than the 300D. It's why I never upgraded from 6mp to 8mp (at the lower end). Whereas most of the Pentaxes have pretty decent viewfinders. And if you read dpreview of both the 300D and the 350D it's pretty clear the bump up from 6mp to 8mp is not really significant enough to make much of a difference. The image quality is pretty much the same in other words. The AS (anti-shake) of the K100D, if it works as advertised, would make it the clear winner. If you don't think so just price some of the Canon IS (image stabilization, same as AS) lenses out there. Current Canon IS capabilities is limited to specific expensive lenses, since it doesn't come with the camera. But bear in mind Canon is supposed to release a new Digital Rebel version before the end of this year, possibly at Photokina in September. No one knows yet what that will offer. But I am not expecting camera body IS or AS. However, it might have an improved viewfinder. Marnie -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
