On 3/29/08, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:57:08AM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > I'm kind of confused on this. > > What's the question here, what's the worst Pentax digital SLR model? > > What have we seen - 3 different form factors, maybe 2? > > There was the *istD, the *istDs, and the K10D. > > I don't think the *istD and the *istDs were very different. > > Both were nearly identical bodies...just a slightly bigger screen on the > *istDs? > > And weren't the remaining *istDL and such the same form factor, > > just a porro mirror instead instead of the prism...so no change in body. > > > The DL was basically the same as the DS, but the original D was different. > Quite apart from the fact that it took CF cards, not SD media, it also had > the two-wheel control interface found on the PZ-1p (and now the K10D/K20D). >
And the handgrip is significantly smaller on the D. I found the DS to be the best handling of the Pentax bodies due to having the largest and most ergonomic grip. The K100D is very similar while the K10D has less depth to the grip than a DS, but much more than the D. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
