This was Pentax's flag ship professional camera (now replaced by the K20D) about 2 years ago. I won't be going into an in depth review here, you can find those all over the web. If you don't trust it's performance simply look at all the awards it's won. In hand, it just feels right for me. It's the perfect size, just meaty enough to hand onto but not to heavy. It runs on a rechargeable lithium battery pack and can be boosted with a battery grip. When using this at a 10 hour wedding I've yet to replace the battery... not bad in my opinion!
All of the features are at your finger tips, you don't have to dig through the menu very much at all. It has 2 e-dials that work very well together.
Picture quality is outstanding! I've got the settings just right now so my JPEG's come out almost perfect, fresh from the camera.
The SDM focus motor is outstanding, whisper quite and quick (if not to dark)
The down sides for me: No sync terminal on the camera, I have to use the hotshoe or an adapter for all flash work. Focus speed in low light isn't the best. High ISO image quality is poor, if this doesn't get worked on by the time the K30D rolls around that might be my push towards Nikon. But that's about it. Sure it's frames per second is around 3 but since I don't use it for sports much, that doesn't really bug me.
Keep on trucken' Pentax, I want to see a sweet K30D in the next few months!
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