By:
Lisa Gidley
As Pentax's top player in the tightly competitive field of consumer digital SLRs, the *ist DS2 is essentially a slightly upgraded and repackaged version of the company's successful *ist DS.
SLRs of both the film and digital varieties are never truly compact, but the Pentax *ist DS2's design is relatively streamlined, with a width of 4.
The Pentax *ist DS2's shooting options are varied enough to satisfy most experienced photographers and include plenty of automatic features to ease newcomers into the world of dSLRs.
Like all cameras in its class, the Pentax *ist DS2 is fairly quick on the draw; it takes only 0.
The Pentax *ist DS2's image quality was generally excellent, with saturated but not garish colors, crisp--but not too crisp--edges in the in-focus areas, smooth gradations in the not-in-focus areas, and pleasing skin tones.
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