Hi Gang:
Well, I've been following the latest of Pentax's
new *ist D digital camera. I certainly would have
liked to save my money 'til the release of this camera
later this year. But I just had my first baby and I
needed a new digital fast! I am soooooooooo tired of
the wait and expense of film processing. I�ve just
about had it with 35mm.
I did my research and picked the Fuji FinePix
S602 digital camera. This is a very good camera, but,
of course, it has no Pentax mount so I can�t use all
my wonderful Pentax lenses :o( The Fuji really is a
great camera�it even takes movies! Only
disappointment: sporadic artifacts in images, even
when I take pictures in uncompressed TIFF mode (These
uncompressed files are huge (18 MB) but this is OK
since I splurged on a 1 GB IBM microdrive which this
camera can use.)
This Fuji has a �third generation� CCD so I really
don�t understand why I am getting these artifacts. I
expect to be able to produce poster sized prints for
the price I paid. That�s what I want. I thought it
might be a defective camera but I researched and found
that these artifacts are normal in a pro-sumer level
digital camera. So my question to you guys is: do you
think that the new Pentax *ist D with it�s Philips CCD
sensor will do better with regard to artifacts? If
so, I will beg, borrow and steal to get the camera.
If not, I�ll hold off until Pentax produces the next
generation. All comments appreciated.
Pande
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