K10D Vs K100D

[CY_OH]

I plan to use the camera to take my family, vacation and possibly creative shots for competition.....

Putting aside the price, which is a better camera? And why?

cheers.

K100D seems to be the better camera.

The main issue is with lens compatibilty. Nikon D40 only autofocuses with AF-S lenses, with the few AF-S primes being 200mm and above. All other AF lenses, including Nikon primes, 50mm, third party lens (except Sigma HSM) will become manual focus. Older manual focus lens will not meter on Nikon.

Pentax K100D will autofocus with all AF lens and meters with manual focus lens. K100D has depth-of-field preview which D40 doesn't. In body SR on K100D will be useful on stationary objects, which requires expensive separate lens purchase for Nikon.

If choosing Nikon, I would rather go for just discontinued D50 or second hand D70/D70s, as they don't have AF restriction. Their viewfinders are quite small though. The Nikon 18-70mm would be a good choice for kit lens, better image quality than 18-55 or 18-135.

 

[perng05]

Then get the K00D lah. A nice camera, and you'll need the SR feature when shooting indoor ...

Hi ..

so can anyone recommend where is the best place to see and try out the K100D? hoping to buy it today ... no point reading up and up while nothing to shoot with... does any of the shops stock 50mm 1.4/ 1.7 ? thks also for all the replies earlier = )

 

[Zenten]

I plan to use the camera to take creative shots for competition.....



cheers.

Wahhhh ................ Pro !!! :bigeyes:

 

[airconvent]

Hi ..

so can anyone recommend where is the best place to see and try out the K100D? hoping to buy it today ... no point reading up and up while nothing to shoot with... does any of the shops stock 50mm 1.4/ 1.7 ? thks also for all the replies earlier = )

Go ! Go ! Go!
Waiting for you to join the club!

 

[perng05]

Go ! Go ! Go!
Waiting for you to join the club!

yep would join the club soon but need recommendation from you guys on where the better deals are ... don't need best deal as there will always be a better deal out there so there will never be a best deal... cheers

 

[airconvent]

yep would join the club soon but need recommendation from you guys on where the better deals are ... don't need best deal as there will always be a better deal out there so there will never be a best deal... cheers

Just get it from Alan Photo....may not be the lowest but definitely near there...

 

[alvinsclee]

Hi ..

so can anyone recommend where is the best place to see and try out the K100D? hoping to buy it today ... no point reading up and up while nothing to shoot with... does any of the shops stock 50mm 1.4/ 1.7 ? thks also for all the replies earlier = )

Check this out if you don't mind a manual lens...
http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=240947

He may also have an autofocus one for sale... just PM him to be sure.

 

[look4raymond]

yep would join the club soon but need recommendation from you guys on where the better deals are ... don't need best deal as there will always be a better deal out there so there will never be a best deal... cheers

You can also get it at Cathay Photo (got 2 branches, Peninsula & Marina Square)
Only Marina one opens on Sundays.

 

[caterham7]

let your fingers do the walking. cathay, alan photo, and ms color offer equotation via email...quite convenient...just bought k100d from ms color...good service even though the shop was super crowded yesterday

 

[perng05]

let your fingers do the walking. cathay, alan photo, and ms color offer equotation via email...quite convenient...just bought k100d from ms color...good service even though the shop was super crowded yesterday

hmm ;p mind letting me know the price you paid and any freebies? tried going to funan to check out the camera at alan photo and John 3:16 today but too busy with the baby...ahhah did not even know if they were opened on sunday :think:

if MS got better deal compared with CP or AP then I will go over tomorrow at lunch to buy liao... by the way they accept credit card? any surcharge ?

my wife tried to take photo of the boy just now with our basic p&s but all we got is blurry pics... she turned round and said," You go buy the camera tomorrow!"

 

[caterham7]

not sure if its ok to mention the price in the forums [how...moderators, can?]...anyway, the prices quoted to me by the 3 companies were very close [less than $50 difference]...came with free 1GB SD card and Tamrac bag, i chose ms color cos i felt i should support the shops in the heartlands...

 

[look4raymond]

not sure if its ok to mention the price in the forums [how...moderators, can?]...anyway, the prices quoted to me by the 3 companies were very close [less than $50 difference]...came with free 1GB SD card and Tamrac bag, i chose ms color cos i felt i should support the shops in the heartlands...

You definitely can quote the prices here! Just check out Nikon and Canon forums, they all have sticky on prices of bodies & lenses.

In fact, when one day Pentax becomes more popular in Singapore, we can start a sticky too!

Now, letz hope i dun buy a Nikon D80... :sticktong

 

[fengwei]

Went to Sim Lim Square and asked around, was offerred a deal for a K100D kit at $950 nett! Quite tempting, almost bought it on the spot. But thought it over, K10D is still even more attractive at the momoent

 

[shinken]

Not sure whether this link to dpreview had been posted. A sample on the stabilizer performance. Seems amazing to me.

 

[phantasmal]

K100D review is up, highly recommended, check it out ^^

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxk100d/

 

[perng05]

Went to Sim Lim Square and asked around, was offerred a deal for a K100D kit at $950 nett! Quite tempting, almost bought it on the spot. But thought it over, K10D is still even more attractive at the momoent

do you rem which shop quoted you 950nett? thks in advance

 

[creampuff]

Wah, reading dpreview the K100D trounces the D50 imagewise...
(grief, shock and horror on Nikon fans' faces)

 

[wind30]

but the test results on the SR is very dissappointing. Seems worse than sony's SSS.

but the ISO1600 performance is quite surprising. I did not know the K100D ISO 1600 is so good.

 

[dnaxe]

but the test results on the SR is very dissappointing. Seems worse than sony's SSS.

but the ISO1600 performance is quite surprising. I did not know the K100D ISO 1600 is so good.

Not really. Look at the A100 - there was a whole lot of improvement possible. With the K100D there was already less improvement possible (probably because of the 6mp vs. 10mp thing) so of course there would be less improvement. As mentioned (possibly elsewhere) SR is not a magic bullet.

Look on the bright side - SR didn't -increase- the number of boffed shots at shutter speeds where it's basically not needed.

 

[dnaxe]

Wah, reading dpreview the K100D trounces the D50 imagewise...
(grief, shock and horror on Nikon fans' faces)

I suspect that the image quality differences really aren't all that stark - but that what that test really demonstrates is that the pentax 50 1.4 is better than the nikon 50 1.8 - since it doest cost about 50% more, this is not -too- surprising.

An interesting thing to note, however, is that the pentax 50 1.4 is not usually regarded by pentaxians as a particularly sharp 50mm - the preference generally seems to be in favour of the 50 1.7; although at f/8 I would think that all of them would be working pretty well.