By the way, my greatest joy thus far is the write speed and the buffer size. I have yet to find myself limited by either. I've clicked off five or six frames of RAW with the shutter button held down: no problem. And if I hit the preview button after that, the image immediately appears. I'm used to standing around and waiting with the D. I'm loving this. Paul On Nov 25, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> True, complaints certainly shouldn't be dismissed. I do expect that > firmware upgrades will provide significant improvements as time goes > by. Yet, I have to say that based on what is admittedly still a > fairly minimal amount of experience (around 300 exposures), I'd have > to say that this camera outperforms the D by a considerable amount. > But I agree that there are a lot of pixel peepers at dpreview, who > tend to work themselves into a lather over minutiae. > Paul > On Nov 25, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Shel Belinkoff 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. >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
