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4.5 stars
"only a few downsides to an amazing camera!"
Pros: built in shake reduction, hundreds of lenses, great price, great auto features
Cons: where's the light meter? auto-white balance = poo
Summary: I've owned this camera for a year now, own ten lenses of varying age and focal lengths, and overall I got to say its' probably one of my best purchases to date.
About four months prior to my acquisition of this camerea I purchased a Kodak P850...terrible machine... hard to use, and slow on the shutter. The K100D fixes those problems and gives me more...oh so much more!
The image reduction is a big plus for me. While the other camera I was looking at (Canon Digital Rebel) requires shake reduction lenses, the Pentax offers it internally, allowing me to save money, and purchase vintage lenses without worrying about 'the shakes'.
This backwards compatiblity is really nice for people that want to expand their lens collection on a budget. In fact, my favorite lens is an old Pentax Ashai 50mm lens. The colors are so warm and vivid with it, not to mention clear and sharp. Much better than the current DA lenses Pentax offers.
Shooting is fast and effortless in all but manual mode. But watch for the auto-white balance, it seems to have a tendency to suck the life out of your photos.
In manual mode you can really achieve some amazing shots, getting pictures that can make even the most amature photographer look like a pro. Especially when you use the white-balance to it's full potential.
The preview shutter is a nice feature in manual mode as well, allowing you to check how a picture will turn out, without writing it to memory, and checking it.
However, this feature could almost be done away with if the camerea had a traditional light meter! It shows red dots in certain areas of the viewfinder...metering god knows what, but it's not light! Having a good ol' five point meter on the bottom or the side would have saved me a lot of time and frustration getting the right shutter/arperature settings.
Overall an amazing camera, and should be a top buy for anyone looking for an affordable DSLR camera.
Where to buy
Pentax K100D (body only):
$519.99
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