William Robb wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Adam Maas" >>> Subject: Re: K100D super (unofficial for now it seems) >> >> A D200 is $1599CDN and a K10D is $1099CDN, you must be looking at an >> 18-200/D200 kit to get 2.5x the price. Not as big a difference as you make >> out. And as to EOS, I was talking about EOS's screwmount support, which is >> the same (actually better as the EOS M42 adaptors are mechanically superior >> to the Pentax ones, as they lock on the mount with the lock pin and release >> normally). > > I didn't spend a lot of time looking. Fifty percent is still quite a > jump in cost. > It's nice that Canon offers better support for obsolete lenses from > their competition than for their own legacy customer base, though I > hardly give them much credit for doing so, considering the way they > abandoned their FD users. >
Note that you do get certain things for that extra 40% or so that the D200 costs. You're getting 5fps, a 21 RAW buffer(Or over 40 jpeg's), a far more capable wireless flash system (multigroup flash allows all sorts of control that Pentax's single-channel wireless flash system doesn't, along with the notably higher flash sync and the best flash unit on the market today in the SB-800), support for wireless file transfer, more control over the camera (particularly the AF system, which is excessively configurable if anything)and GPS units and the best build quality short of the D2's and 1D's. The K10D is certainly the best absolute value in the sub-$1000 USD market, but the D200 is the best absolute value in the over-$1000 market, it in fact has capabilities that the full-on Pro bodies do not (particularly the Wireless Commander capability on the built-in flash). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
