Pentax K20D 14.6MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction (Body Only) by Pentax
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Digital camera reviews of Pentax K20D 14.6MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction (Body Only)
Digital camera Review: upgrade
Summary: 5 Stars
i upgraded from a K10D to a K20D, and if you are thinking if you should, you wont regreat it. This is one sweet baby.
On a rate scale of 1-10. 10 being the highest, the K10D was a 9+ and the K20D is a 100% better
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Pentax K20D / D-BG2
DA*16-50 : DA*50-135 : 360 FGZ
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Digital camera Review: K20D worth whatever you pay!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had digital cameras for years and have captured some great shots (usually in full sun and low ISO), my wife is a Pentax 35mm film buff (or should I say was). I bought this camera to test the waters of the SLR digital world and wanted to be able to keep costs down while using some existing lenses from my wifes lenses.
What a camera for me to start off with, I have now purchased a 50mm prime lens and a 17-50mm zoom digital lens to complement the camera. The shots I have taken since the switch are like night and day compared to the digital cameras that I owned prior to this one.
I can honestly say people now come up to me after seeing my photos and complement me much more often then before.... even my wife has noticed the difference in my photos, that a large percentage more of my pictures turn out so much better than before. I'd like to think I found a camera that will now let me grow and develope, that compliments anyones style and lets you experiment with as much as you have time for.
I look forward to years of learning with this camera and recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade to a prosumer model.
Digital camera Review: K20D
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great camera! At 400 ISO and below it takes amazingly detailed pictures without any visable noise even if photos are cropped. The learning curve to use the custom functions is a bit steep, however. It comes with a thick manual and I'm still learning all the functions. I already had a lot of 35mm pentax lenses and its compatiblity with my existing lenses are the main reason I chose this camera over another make. It works great with A series lenses with the lense set to the Auto setting. When the lense apeture ring is set to a F-stop setting manually or if you are using an older lense without the Auto setting, you have to go into the camera's custom setting program and enable the camera for use with the apeture ring set manually for the camera to function. As far as I can tell, when the camera is operated with a m lense the apeture is not stopped down when you take a picture- you have to shoot these lenses wide open. The camera's exposue info indicated when I took a photo of a landscape scene at ISO 200 with my 17mm tokina lense apeture set to F16 that the scene was exposed with a shutter speed of 1/4000 second which should have been way underexposed but the photo appears normal with the normal depth of field you'd expect from this small an apeture. The camera's live view and optical preview modes won't function when I have an M series lense mounted on the camera either. These are minor inconvienances though as the camera's function with A series and later lenses are flawless. In all, I would recomend this camera to anyone looking for a high quality D-SLR camera, especially if you already own one or more pentax 35mm lenses and you are looking to expand to digital photography. Digital camera Review: Amazing camera !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this camera in Sep.2007, as a trade-in for my Canon Digital Rebel 8mp, which I had for two years.
I wasn't very happy with Canon, although I have two powershots, which are excellent(A80,95)
But Rebel wasn't.
I explored at least 10 reviews on K20D, and all without exception were outstanding.
Indeed, the camera is the best I had since Nikon F90X which I purchased in 1996, just at the beginning of the digital revolution.
Most people are absolutely brainwashed by the media biased towards Pentax. Nikon and Canon invest astronomical amounts of money to advertise and buy the media.It's simply brainwashing.
Pentax is THE BEST camera for the money you can buy.
Pentax is also feature rich camera, produces stunning images without the need to photoshop at all.
Highly highly reccomend!
Digital camera Review: Excellent IQ
Summary: 5 Stars
Very nice upgrade to K10d. Better detail in shadow areas. Great sharpness and texture to objects.