----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Smith" Subject: K10D or K20D.
> Our family has had a dreadful 2008 so far and I've yet to take any > pictures > other than for eBay adverts, I just haven't been in the mood for it. > > I've been wondering about giving myself a little enablement by buying a > K10D > on the premise that there might be a few good offers on the last K10Ds - > or > people selling them off with little use to buy a K20D. All was well with > that thought until I picked up a copy of Amateur Photographer (09.02.08) > today, which has the K20D on the front cover. > > Now I really don't know. I'd manage to get a K10D for a reasonable sum but > the K20D is a big leap in spec from my *ist D and it offers me the bizarre > situation of owning something current. Anyone else updating from an *ist > D? I updated from an istD to a K10. It was quite a jump. There are still things I prefer about the istD, but the image quality and responsiveness improvements in the K10 are very nice. While I am not saing I am giving the K20 a pass, I am much less motivated to by into it immediately, I am tempted to wait and see what the higher end camera that was hinted at turns out to be. If it is a 645, then the K20 would probably end up as part of my kit, if it turns out to be a higher performance specc'd K-Mount, then I would bypass the K20 in it's favour. The K10 is fast enough and has sufficient imaging qualities for most of what I do, unfortunately, what it is missing, and apparently the K20 shares this failing, is really fast auto focus. I do a lot of action pictures of my dogs, the K10 often can't keep up, and no amount of extra megapixels will fix that. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
