On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:25:26 -0000, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let's not discount comments by the people @ dpreview. A more prudent > approach might be to read the dp threads, and then see if and how those > problems come to bear with the cameras used by PDMLers. There could very > well be some problems that need attention or manifest themselves in > certain > circumstances. I didn't make a focus comment, but I did read the threads until boredom set in. One guy reported a problem with focus, and he may have a faulty camera. Most of the rest was the usual rumour-mongering and hand-wringing. There was no meat to the complaints about banding/noise at high ISO that I could see, and one very good technical analysis of the K10D's performance which concluded it was excellent. Signal to noise ratio was about 1:400. John > Your focus comment, for example, is a good one. When I first got my DS I > noticed getting good, accurate focus was a sometimes thing, until John > Celio showed me how the sensors worked and helped me to set the camera > properly. I had some other problems that turned out to be human error, > and > once figured out I've been happy ever since. > > However, I did notice a problem with banding on one or two frames when > using one of Bruce's istD's. Never did figure out what caused the > problem, > and Bruce never mentioned it here AFAIK, so it may have been just an > anomaly. > > Still, to dismiss complaints from various users of _new_ cameras is > probably not a good way to go about evaluation the camera for strengths > and > weaknesses, especially if you're making some important pics. > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: John Forbes > >> DPReview is the Domain of Pixel-peepers. How many people are reporting >> these problems? How many know what they are talking about? How many >> actually need 1600 ISO, given that the camera has shake-reduction > built-in. >> >> I haven't yet got my K10D, but I suspect this is all a load of rubbish >> from the usual suspects. > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
