New Pentax K100D

[Ferio_vti]

So Pentax is releasing a DSLR w/ built in anti-shake. What do you think, boost in sales for the DSLR market or a crash n' burn like KM's antishakers??

I think it's a bit of a mixed bag, namely cuz it has more underpinning from the DL rather than the DS branch. Overall, I think it has potential sell, more so than KM's 7D/5D did.
Can't wait to see what Pentax has planned for their 10 megapixel DSLR later this year.


http://www.dpreview.com/news/0605/06052205pentaxk100d.asp
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/review/2006/05/25/3853.html

[Obscura]

it's a neat idea having the anti shake built into the body and allowing the use of the older lenses... too bad it's got soo many "consumer level" limits like flash sync...

[AccentAE86]

I don't think in-body anti-shake is a good idea. For canon/nikon, the stabilizer motor and the optics are optimized for that particular lens. I would think an in-body solution to be more general: it works, but not as effective as in-lens.

It's like buying univeral-fit parts for your car. Yeah, it'll work, but the factory part that's optimized for your car will always work better.

just a personal opinion

[muse017]

Originally posted by AccentAE86
I don't think in-body anti-shake is a good idea. For canon/nikon, the stabilizer motor and the optics are optimized for that particular lens. I would think an in-body solution to be more general: it works, but not as effective as in-lens.

It's like buying univeral-fit parts for your car. Yeah, it'll work, but the part that is factory part that optimized for your car will always work better.

just a personal opinion

So true...but think about how expensive those VR or IS lenses are.

[civiclvr]

any idea on cost?

[muse017]

http://kakaku.com/prdsearch/detail.asp?PrdKey=00502110995

expected to be out on july and price is 82800 for body and 18-55 kit lens.
Basically, approx 800ish canadian dollar.

[Obscura]

Originally posted by AccentAE86
I don't think in-body anti-shake is a good idea. For canon/nikon, the stabilizer motor and the optics are optimized for that particular lens. I would think an in-body solution to be more general: it works, but not as effective as in-lens.

It's like buying univeral-fit parts for your car. Yeah, it'll work, but the factory part that's optimized for your car will always work better.

just a personal opinion


Oh very true, I'm sure that it won't have the same optical quality or work as well. I just think it's a cool idea to be able to use some of Pentax's old screw mount lenses with a rather new technology like anti-shake. Or even mounting a pentax 67 lens.

The only time I've used VR lenses is on a aerial photography shoot. I personally haven't seen much use for them. A mono-pod or tripod seems to work pretty good as well. Not saying that there are times that a monopod or tripod won't get in the way...

[Pihsiak]

I never did like the Pentex's film SLRs
The manual stuff they did were awesome, K1000 was my first love.

But I used to see alot of returns with the autofocus bodies, too much electronic problems. And their lens quality were never as good as Canon or Nikon. I never kept track of them when they came into the digial community.

[muse017]

^ Pihsiak
Have you ever used pentax Star series or Limited series lenses?
Of course Canon and Nikon got some good lenses but in terms of quality of lens i have no clue what are you talking about.

[Obscura]

Originally posted by Pihsiak
I never did like the Pentex's film SLRs
The manual stuff they did were awesome, K1000 was my first love.

But I used to see alot of returns with the autofocus bodies, too much electronic problems. And their lens quality were never as good as Canon or Nikon. I never kept track of them when they came into the digial community.

K1000's were a great camera just a little feature limited, why Pentax couldn't have put things like a depth of field preview and a 1/2000 top shutter speed always disapointed me.

Course there was the LX, really good camera

I did like the old MZ-5n, it had a really smart user inteface for selecting exposure modes... too bad that Nikon didn't copy that instead of designing cameras like the F401 series or the F50/F60/F70 series

Pentax did and still does have some really good glass for some of the lenses in the line up, you just have to pay for it.

:thumbsup: