So, "difficult to fault" but they managed to give only 4 stars, as they did with the other Pentax DSLRs tested (D, Ds and K100D IIRC).
The message is clear: "this camera is good enough for the existing Pentax users. However, if this is not the case, you'll better look somewhere else (to C & N, whose popular products always get 5 stars, BTW)." What about a conspiracy theory? (at leas this time it seems that the image quality is not questioned...) ----- Mensaje original ---- De: Peter Fairweather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: [email protected] Enviado: sábado, 16 de diciembre, 2006 23:37:00 Asunto: French review of K10D Hi There is a review in the new Chasseur d'images. Overall it only gets 4 stars. They don't like the limitations of the current range of lenses the absence of a remote flash firing facility from the onboard flash problems with the autofocus mechanism. which they put down to poor quality control Now for the good news. They have a new way of measuring digital noise and the K10D is better than Canon 400, Nikon D80, Sony Alpha, Olympus E400 at 100 - 800 ISO and ties with the D80 at 1600 ISO. Their only complaint here is why no 3200 ISO!! As an example at 100I SO the scores FOR NOISE out of 10 are Pentax K10D 6.2 Canon 400D 5.6 Sony Alpha 5.4 Nikon D80 5.3 Oly E400 5.2 In a "Buyers Guide" section, their overall verdict is "difficult to fault" They don't appear to have noticed the "banding" at high ISO, the terrible soft jpegs or the absence of a small but unmentionable part Vive la France Peter the pentaxiste ps my technical photographic French is not brilliant. Perhaps someone can check my translation -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net ______________________________________________ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
