Question about the Pentax *ist D

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote in message
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Broake wrote:

Actually, it's not 'fine' on the D70 - I know, because I used to own one.

The D70 offers a superficial 'sharpness', which is generated entirely by
harsh in-camera processing.


The amount of sharpenning is completely controllable. It can be set to
various levels of "aggressiveness", or shut off entirely. It really
only applies to JPEG images. So ... just shoot RAW and adopt a RAW
workflow.

The *st D takes a more adult approach, and produces images that respond
well
to thoughtful sharpening in PP

Plus, take away the rather good Nikon kit lens and the D70 is revealed
for
what it is - a cheap lightweight plastic box - with several annoying
idiosyncrasies, like trying to zoom a previously taken image.


Troll.

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It ill becomes someone with such a bloody silly name to call another poster
'Troll'

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:18:42 +0000, Tony Polson
wrote:

"Cheesehead" wrote:

Consider the DS along with the D as options. It's newer and there have
been changes, mostly for the better. imnsho.


Two changes for the worse are the lack of a PC socket and the omission
of one of the two control dials. Those omissions were more than
enough for many people to continue to choose the D over the DS. The
DS's "newness" is not in itself necessarily a virtue when genuinely
useful features have been deleted solely to cut costs.

You missed the abilty to work TTL (rather than P-TTL) with
the popup flash and the ability to use it as a wireless
controller.

What were the changes for the better?

Faster I/O, flashing blown highlight warning and instant
histogram in preview, a joypad that actually works...

Sure it's a "cut down" *istD but it also has some new
strings to its bow.

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John Bean wrote:

You missed the abilty to work TTL (rather than P-TTL) with
the popup flash and the ability to use it as a wireless
controller.


Thanks John.

For whaterver it's worth my Pentax K lenses work beautifully on my Oly
E-300 with an adapter. Run em' in either the completely automatic or
Aperture Priority modes and focus manually. Beautiful sharp results. I
chose the Oly because I have been very happy with several other of
their digicams.

Darrell Larose wrote:

"Pete D" wrote in message
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What features do you think [the Pentax *ist D line] is missing? I have
looked and dont see to much if anything missing.

Pentax is missing the hype!

You got that right!

There's nothing missing except the marketing and image stabilization
lenses. If either of those is important to you, choose another brand.

Broake wrote:


It ill becomes someone with such a bloody silly name to call another poster
'Troll'

Let's see. You've never, ever posted here ever before, but come out on
this point and then attack somebody over his name.

Hmm.


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"Alan Browne" wrote in message
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Broake wrote:


It ill becomes someone with such a bloody silly name to call another
poster 'Troll'

Let's see. You've never, ever posted here ever before, but come out on
this point and then attack somebody over his name.

Hmm.


Are you sure it is not Douglas using one of his seven hundred aliases?

"Tony Polson" wrote in message
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"Cheesehead" wrote:

Consider the DS along with the D as options. It's newer and there have
been changes, mostly for the better. imnsho.


Two changes for the worse are the lack of a PC socket and the omission
of one of the two control dials. Those omissions were more than
enough for many people to continue to choose the D over the DS. The
DS's "newness" is not in itself necessarily a virtue when genuinely
useful features have been deleted solely to cut costs.

What were the changes for the better?

Actually the PC tethering does work, just use the D software that you can
download from Pentax, pulls the photos straight into your PC.

(Paul Mitchum) wrote:

Darrell Larose wrote:

"Pete D" wrote in message
...
What features do you think [the Pentax *ist D line] is missing? I have
looked and dont see to much if anything missing.

Pentax is missing the hype!

You got that right!

There's nothing missing except the marketing and image stabilization
lenses. If either of those is important to you, choose another brand.


The 10MP Pentax replacement for the *ist D, due Q4/2006, will have
in-camera image stabilisation. Hopefully, Pentax designers will have
used the months since the introduction of Konica Minolta's Anti-Shake
mechanism (in the Maxxum 7D) to ensure that Konica Minolta's mistakes
are not repeated in the new design.

what mistakes out of interest ???

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"Tony Polson" wrote in message
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The 10MP Pentax replacement for the *ist D, due Q4/2006, will have
in-camera image stabilisation. Hopefully, Pentax designers will have
used the months since the introduction of Konica Minolta's Anti-Shake
mechanism (in the Maxxum 7D) to ensure that Konica Minolta's mistakes
are not repeated in the new design.