No, I couldn't turn it on. Apparently no battery. That explains it. I couldn't believe anyone could sell a camera that bad. Paul On Oct 21, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> Costco is selling the 80D with an 18-45 kit lens for $1299. I looked >> through the viewfinder this afternoon when we were shopping and was >> shocked. It's absolute crap. Too dim for manual focusing. The camera >> and lens felt like cheap plastic toys. Not good. >> Paul >> > > Paul, > > Did you turn it on? The Nikon's use an LED/LCD overlay that's quite > dark > when turned off, but is much brighter when turned on (Because the LCD > goes transparent). The D200/D80 viewfinders are unimpressive when > turned > off, but quite decent when turned on. > > The 18-55 is crap however, and the 18-135 isn't much better. The 18-70 > is quite good, if a bit slow at the long end. > > -Adam > > -- > 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
