I hadn't really had a chance to take any shots with my K20 yet. So when I got to work, and the weather gave me a decent view of the cliff, not too disimilar from a week ago when I shot it with the K100, I figured that it would be an interesting comparison of the two.
As expected, since the conditions were squarely within the capabilities of the K100 I don't see a lot of difference that isn't overwhelmed by differences in post processing. For fun, after shooting it with the A*200, just like last week, I also took some frames with the 18-250 at various focal lengths, up to 200mm. Shot on 090226 with the K100Dsuper and the A* 200/2.8: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614416872469/ Shot on 090304 with the K20D, the first two with the A* 200/2.8 (21&26) and the rest were shot with the DA 18-200 because my inner measurbator was curious about relative performance of the two lenses aperture and shutterspeed were about the same: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614824598610/ When I dive in and start pixel peeping, I am impressed with the sharpness of the K20D, but I'd probably have to print something poster sized to see a significant difference in near ideal conditions such as these. I've barely had a chance to RTFM. My first impressions of the camera are that it might have been designed specifically to perfectly fit my hands. I was also quite surprised at how much difference the pentaprism viewfinder makes, it actually seems possible to manually focus without a katzeye, though I suspect I'll be getting one before too long. Autfocus seems a bit snappier, but I don't have much to go on. The RGB histograms are wonderful to have, as are the plethora of functions that have been brought out from deep within menus to their own buttons. I don't know as if I'll be taking better pictures, but I'm certainly hoping to lose a lot fewer of them to "circumstances" such as not enough light, or a full buffer. I'm also going to need to start investing in some 4G SDHC cards. I'd been avoiding them because they aren't as fast as SD cards, but only 80 shots per card may start getting a bit tiresome. Imagine that 2.5 rolls of film per card isn't enough! -- Every medium suffers from its own particular handicap. Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." W. Connell 1949 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
