I'd expect a D80/K10D comparison to be a better idea. The D200's is much bigger and faster.
I'm expecting the K10D to be a better body than the D80, but closer to the D80 than the D200. -Adam Jens Bladt wrote: > It would be nice to se a D200/K10D comparison! > regards > jens > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Adam > Maas > Sendt: 20. august 2006 04:26 > Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Emne: Re: Nikon/K10D > > > Douglas Newman wrote: > >>--- Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>The K10D is likely going to be similar in size to >>>the D80, with build in between the D80 and D200. >> >> >>The D80 (I have not paid much attention to it) is >>similar in size to the D70? I can live with that. > > > Actually, it's notable smaller than the D70, essentially the same size > as the D50 (differs by a few mm in each direction) > > >>The D70 feels like it is built fairly decently, if the >>D80 is similar again that is OK though I doubt the D80 >>will be any better built than an *ist DS/DL/K100 >>series camera all of which seem pretty solid. > > > Can't say either way, although I found the D70 to be better than the DL, > about the same as the DS/ > > >>What I would really like to see is a metal body (for >>no reason other than that I like the way it feels!) >>and especially weather-sealing. I always feel a slight >>bit of nervousness taking my 20D out in the rain even >>though I know it can handle it... I never felt that >>with the "sealed" Olympus E-1 (which was beautifully >>built and had excellent ergonomics but a pathetically >>bad Kodak sensor). >> >><< I'd expect the K10D to also be at least a bit >>better, although likely not as good as a D50 or the >>20D. >> >> >>If it is, say, one stop worse than the 20D, I can live >>with that since shake reduction makes up for it. >> >>Any worse than that and the difference would be big >>enough for me to buy a K100D which should be very >>similar in noise levels to the 20D. >> >>As for the D50, I know it is supposedly about the >>lowest-noise camera out there, but I actually find its >>noise more noticeable than the D70/D70s. The D70 has >>VERY fine-grained noise which looks more like film >>grain than thse noise from a lot of other digital >>cameras. > > > I shoot the D50. Noise is unnoticable at 800, at 1600 it leans more > towards chroma noise, the D70 tends more to luminance noise, which is > why it may be less objectionable although there's more of it. > > >>You can see the difference very clearly here: >>http://digitalcamera.impress.co.jp/06_02/auth/toku1/index_iso.htm >> >>Of all the 6 MP Sony sensor cameras listed there, I >>would say the D70 looks subjectively best. The D50, >>the two Pentaxes, and the two Konica Minoltas all >>appear to have LESS noise than the D70, but it is, to >>stick with the grain metaphor, "larger" grain than the >>D70's. >> >>I guess the technical way to say this would be that >>the D70 appears to have more luminance noise but less >>chroma noise than the others. Interestingly, this is >>the approach Nikon took with the rather noisy D200 and >>even noisier D2x which have virtually no chroma noise >>at all but LOADS of luminance noise. >> >>Doug >> > > > The *istD had the best noise quality of all the cameras I've shot with > extensively (D50, D70, *istD, 20D, 350D). Very film-like. > > -Adam > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 08/18/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.4/424 - Release Date: 08/21/2006 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
