On 5/3/08, Owen LaPrath, discombobulated, unleashed: >I am kicking myself for ever having wanted a K10. >Autofocus was a dissapoinmtent to say the least - no faster than the K100, >and actually less reliable! >After seeing a few K20d shots from Dubai, my K100d even compares favorably >for high ISO shots at iso3200, which I do a lot of. The problem is the very >annoying banding - banding looks much worse than grit. >My K100d still is just dandy and works like new after about 18 months or so. >Then I bought 2 bad K10d in a row from 2 different sellers. >The first was DOA. On the second body the Antishake switch simply fell off >after 4 months with a stress crack. The switch is a very poor design, as the >switch axle is plastic and is attached with a screw into that axle from the >inside of the body. It is also just held in place by friction, so after 2 >months I started to have problems with it getting a bit flaky in activating >antishake. I have read about major injection molding problems with the K10d >in several forums by now. There are documented cases of the bottom plates >chipping and cracking. And the K20d has the same body .... hmmmmm ..... >Then I saw my lens collection, the fact that the trusty old K100d will not >be continued, and snagged the very last K100d Super body in my local store >here in Tacoma (Washington State, USA) to have a backup body. >That was a lot cheaper than switching systems :) >Frankly, I like the colors and exposure of the K100d MUCH better than >anything I got out of the K10d. >The K100d also doesn't have the banding issues that randomly plagued my >K10d. >Frankly, with the K20d being the 9th Pentax dSLR model, autofocus, >underexposure issues (the Dubai shots are UGLY), high ISO noise, and high >ISO banding ought not to be a problem. Yet they are.
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