K20D high ISO a problem? LOL. You apparently haven't seen any of the recently posted pics. And there are thousands of very satisfied K10D users, including myself. I shoot lots of low-light photography, and I never experienced banding. Paul
On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Owen LaPrath wrote: > 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. -- 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.
