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The Pentax K100D DSLR


The new tool with a Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 attached.


Photos of photos: the 28th picture I've captured since getting the Pentax in the mail.

You can read the reviews of this model at Digital Camera Resource, Digital Photography Review, Imaging Resource, ePHOTOzine, Steve's Digicams, and PopPhoto.com if you want the details.

I'll just say this was exactly the camera I wanted in an upgrade to a digital single-lens reflex form. I didn't buy the kit lens with the body because a very good deal on some old M42 screwmount lenses popped up on the Austin Craigslist. I'll buy a zoom someday to fill in my need for a standard walkaround lens (probably the Sigma 17-70) but for the moment I'm really enjoying the challenge of a nearly all-manual setup. It's just damn fun to set the focus and aperture manually on solid hardware that actually used to be the lenses our fathers' generation used.

I've been slowly expanding my flickr account with pictures from all my digital cameras (though primarily my Fuji F30 and the new Pentax) and invite you to give them a look.

Posted by drizzten on September 12, 2007 03:56 PM |

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