Steve. My comments on size (and I assume others as well) is solely based on comparison with the *ist D. The D (and DS, DL etc) is a very small camera compared to any (D)SLR, as opposed to the K10D being large. I do not think anyone will find the K10D too large.
Enjoy your new camera! Perry. On 11/30/06, Steve Farnham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I've been lurking here for a few weeks while > waiting impatiently for my K10D to arive. It did, > right in the time-range that Amazon promised. It's my > first DSLR -- up to about twenty years ago I shot with > a Nikon F and a Linhof 45s (the least expensive Linhof > ever made, but still a Linhof). Then I decided all my > work was crap and sold everything except my negatives. > But looking back, what I really had started to hate > was darkroom work. > > A couple of years ago the bug bit me again and I > bought a Canon S60 P&S. I have been researching and > studying DSLRs ever since, and, to make a long story > short, all previous cameras had something wrong with > them--too expensive, too few pixels, not ergonomic > enough, etc., etc. But I was unable to resist the > allure of the K10D. I received it Teusday evening; so > far, it's everything I expected, and more. > > With the comments I had read about the 'large size', I > was surprised to find it smaller than the Nikon F, > although I am going on memory here rather than direct > comparison. So, I think I need to go shoot something. > > Steve Farnham > > > > >And, besides myself, is anyone else making the K10D > >their first DSLR? > > > >-Brendan (wondering now how he's lived without it!?) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- <----------------------------------------------------> Perry Pellechia Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry <----------------------------------------------------> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
