All I can say is: I am kicking myself for ever having wanted a K10. Autofocus was a dissapoinmtent to say the least - no faster than the K100, and actually less reliable! After seeing a few K20d shots from Dubai, my K100d even compares favorably for high ISO shots at iso3200, which I do a lot of. The problem is the very annoying banding - banding looks much worse than grit. My K100d still is just dandy and works like new after about 18 months or so. Then I bought 2 bad K10d in a row from 2 different sellers. The first was DOA. On the second body the Antishake switch simply fell off after 4 months with a stress crack. The switch is a very poor design, as the switch axle is plastic and is attached with a screw into that axle from the inside of the body. It is also just held in place by friction, so after 2 months I started to have problems with it getting a bit flaky in activating antishake. I have read about major injection molding problems with the K10d in several forums by now. There are documented cases of the bottom plates chipping and cracking. And the K20d has the same body .... hmmmmm ..... Then I saw my lens collection, the fact that the trusty old K100d will not be continued, and snagged the very last K100d Super body in my local store here in Tacoma (Washington State, USA) to have a backup body. That was a lot cheaper than switching systems :) Frankly, I like the colors and exposure of the K100d MUCH better than anything I got out of the K10d. The K100d also doesn't have the banding issues that randomly plagued my K10d. Frankly, with the K20d being the 9th Pentax dSLR model, autofocus, underexposure issues (the Dubai shots are UGLY), high ISO noise, and high ISO banding ought not to be a problem. Yet they are.
I hope Pentax reads these forums, because here is one user who would rather buy a good old used and proven model rather than new goods that keep the company and paychecks for Pentax going :) later Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 05 March, 2008 18:11 Subject: Re: more K20D autofocus adjustment results If you're noticing it, it's off by a bunch. I don't know why Pentax didn't adjust it properly. The adjustments I'm talking about here are really fine tuning. I did notice the front focus on the FA 50/1.4, which was off by -4 on the K20 scale. The other lenses seemed fine before checking. Paul On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:37 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > Hum. > > My K10D still does what i sent it in for, my Nikons are fine, what > gives. > > Davethe directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
