[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I've only actually seen photos of the latest build of it, courtesy of > my > Pentax rep, but at least I've got a little more information for you to chew > on. The photos were taken this week, so this is about as current as it gets. > > First off, the magic press-release date is September 13th. There's still so > much I haven't been able to pry from my rep that I'm dying for this date to > hurry up and get here! > > Body + 18-55 lens should be $899. A bit more than I expected, but still a > damn > good price. > > The name is definitely K10D (it was stamped on the body). Any remaining > doubters can relax now. > > Remember in the PMA photos > (http://www.dpreview.com/articles/pma2006/Pentax/), > that unmarked button that was above the AF switch on the front of the camera? > > It's now marked RAW, and I'm told it allows you to switch the camera to RAW > mode from jpg mode by pressing and holding the RAW button. I think I would > have preferred a custom white balance button, but I'm sure this function will > be useful for people who shoot in jpg mode most of the time. > > The LCD screen is the same as on the K100D: 2.5 ", 210,000 pixels > > The battery grip has the same features as the grip for the *istD, though I > can't say whether or not it connects to the body in the same way. > > The body is slightly different than the one shown at PMA, though not by much. > > I'd be more specific, but I didn't have much time to really study the new > images. > > The mode dial on the camera's shoulder now has a lot more on it than at PMA. > I > couldn't see much detail in the images, but the new stuff looked like the > same > sort of preset shooting modes you see on consumer cameras (sports, portrait, > night scene, etc). > > DOF-preview now functions in a very interesting manner (apparently it does > this > on the K100D, but I didn't know that). Straight out of the box, when you use > the DOF-preview function, it actually takes a photo and displays it on the > screen until you press halfway on the shutter button (no, the photo is not > saved on your memory card). If you want the more standard thru-the-lens DOF- > preview, you can change that in a custom function menu.
DL/2 did this, also. Bloody annoying. > > > That's all I can remember. Have fun! > > John Celio > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
