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From: "Tanya Love"
Subject: RE: A K7D for Fairygirl (Was Re: Fairygirl is in the house!)
How many of you have K20s/K7s and do you think the cost is worth the
improvements of the latter over the former?
I do.
Aside from the more compact chassis, which I like, the metering accuracy has
been improved from practically useless on the K20 to extremely accurate on
the K7.
AF speed is nominally faster, but for me the big improvement is a side
benefit of the 2FPS speed boost.
The camera is just way more responsive.
Battery life has been hugely improved as well.
I no longer feel the need to chimp every shot to check the metering, and I
am getting anywhere from 1200 to 1600 exposures per battery.
I'm not one of the people who has noticed an improvement in noise
performance, but my photography doesn't take me into high ISO land, so it
isn't surprising.
If you get a K-7, install at the very least, the first firmware release, as
it fixes a broken AF point selection problem which Pentax inexplicably let
out of the factory.
William Robb
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