Thanks John. $900, huh? Sounds a little low for the D200 type build-quality, but heck if it works as well as I hope it does it will be a great price. I like the RAW/JPEG switch button ... that is a more common switch for me than white balance.
Can't wait to see one. Godfrey On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:18 PM, [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. > > > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
