By:
Philip Ryan
About 30 years ago, Pentax released the K1000, a film SLR that would become legendary as an inexpensive workhorse camera with which countless students would--and still do--learn the finer aspects of photography.
Based on the body of the *ist DS2, the K100D will feel familiar to current Pentax dSLR owners.
With a nice combination of auto and manual features, the Pentax K100D offers enough features to quench both experienced and amateur photographers.
While in most cases the Pentax K100D improves on the company's previously best-performing camera, the *ist DS2, the one place it loses ground is at start-up.
We were impressed with the Pentax K100D's image quality.
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