One thing you have to be careful with is the K-x kit lens is the 18-55 which is a small, dark lens. Unless you compare viewfinders with the exact same lens on, you will see differences that aren't related to the viewfinder. I have in my possession an *istD, K10D and K20D to compare against. I have compared the K-x viewfinder with all of those each with the same lens on and tried many different lenses. I am a mostly manual focus shooter so am keenly aware of viewfinder focusing issues. After doing all those comparisons, I can say that there is not obvious difference between the finders of all these bodies. Basically if you just picked up one of them and started using it, you would not have a feeling of 'wow, this is different' - I hope this helps clarify.
-- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 2:45:04 AM, you wrote: BL> On 3/5/2010 4:12 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> More than one person on this list has mentioned that the KX might fit >> my needs in a body. >> >> I just read a post from Mark where he mentions that the viewfinder's a >> bit small and darkish. BL> Frank, I don't have KX, but I can offer you a question - do you often BL> use manual focusing on your *istD. If your answer is "yes", then I would BL> prescribe you some caution. If you don't involve yourself with manually BL> focused lenses, then I would suggest that you just go for it ;-). BL> Boris BL> P.S. I might as well hazard a guess that "going for it" is what will BL> happen anyway, given the nature of lens transaction you and I had in the BL> past ;-). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
