Aaron Reynolds wrote: > Funny, or perhaps encouraging. > > A friend of mine has been contemplating a 10MP digital SLR. He had > decided, based mostly on specs, that he was most interested in two > cameras -- the K10D and the Sony Alpha. (He has no 35mm lenses to > speak of, so that's not a consideration for him, though I suppose I > could try to convince him that he should buy an adaptor and put his 67 > glass on the K10D...) > > A few days ago he handled a pre-release K10D. He called me up > literally a minute later to tell me that he was buying it as soon as > one was available. The next day he went out and bought some Pentax > lenses. > > -Aaron >
Good to hear. I've played a bit with the Alpha (henry's downtown has a demo unit) and I wasn't all that impressed. It's solid, but doesn't handle as well as the DS/DL, and has a real 'plastic' feel (tough plastic, no give, but plastic nonetheless). And the kit lens is unimpressive to say the least (cheap plastic, horrid Nikon-style focus ring, but no cheap G lens wobble). Not impressed. I was expecting more for the cost. I'd have been considerably more impressed with the unit if it was a 6MP unit for DL money. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
