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Pentax K10D 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction (Body Only)

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Pentax K10D 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction (Body Only)

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The PENTAX K10D digital SLR features an array of PENTAX innovations including 10.2 effective megapixels and a PENTAX-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system that effectively offers a 2.5 to 4 stop advantage for sharp, blur-free images even under difficult shooting conditions, such as macro and telephoto photography or low light settings without a flash. Also featured is a newly-developed Pentax Real IMage Engine (PRIME) designed exclusively for PENTAX digital SLR cameras to produce well-balanced, true-to-life images. PENTAX also incorporated a new high performance 22 bit A/D converter to quickly transfer images with accurate color tones and richer gradation from the CCD to the imaging engine. The new Dust Removal (DR) system incorporating PENTAX-original Special Protect (SP) coating helps keep the CCD surface dust-free, and adds a shift mechanism to shake dust off the CCD. All this is housed in a dependable dust-proof, weather-resistant body construction featuring 72 seals throughout the camera to allow photographers to continue shooting even in dusty or rainy environments.

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Product Details

Product Length:	5.6 inches
Product Width:	4.0 inches
Product Height:	2.7 inches
Product Weight:	1.74 pounds
Package Length:	8.9 inches
Package Width:	6.9 inches
Package Height:	5.6 inches
Package Weight:	4.2 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 133 reviews

Features

10.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 18 x 24-inch prints
2.5-inch LCD display; body only--no lens included
In-camera Shake Reduction (SR) and Dust Reduction (DR) systems; dust-proof, weather-resistant body
Continuous shooting at approximately three images per second
Stores images on SD or SDHC memory cards; powered by lithium-ion battey D-LI50 (battery and charger included

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.5

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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Don't waste your money Jul 16, 2010
I bought a Pentax K10D two years ago. The camera seemed to work well, but several months ago the image sensor went bad- pictures were in magenta and blue. Returning it to Pentax for repair, I got a quote for repair of $400! Their lousy sensor goes bad, and because it was past their feeble one-year warranty, Pentax will do nothing to correct what is clearly faulty manufacturing or parts. Do yourself a favor and steer clear of Pentax- they will not support their products, and your money would be much better spent on another manufacturer!

Photographic Excellence Jan 31, 2010
This is an excellent camera. It has been replaced by the K20D and subsequently by the superb K7. The K10D still holds its own against these more modern DSLR and others from other manufacturers. It has a robust feel of a solid device for taking pictures. It oozes quality. Some features are 10MP sensor, Shake Reduction (SR), weather sealed body, large viewfinder, dust removal system, unique to Pentax exposure modes, a one touch RAW button and much more.

Image quality is good. I like the color rendition and depth it produces.

One thing I like about Pentax is with an adapter you can mount their old Asahi Takumar lenses. These lenses are all metal construction with build quality in the Zeiss and Leica level. They are manual focus only but have first class optics. Of course you can get modern autofocus lenses from fixed focal length, zooms, wide angle and weather resistant versions.

The Pentax K10D is a great camera. A bit dated now but still effective. If you can find one pick it up, it could be a great backup camera.

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pain of 1 year with Pentax K10D Jan 05, 2010
I owned this for an year. You cannot say it is a very good camera. It is just a below average camera.I bought it for close to 1000 $
I could have taken maximum of 2000 pictures with it.

Also recently it suddenly started showing battery depleted symbol. Contacted pentax, they suggested to send to a third party who does the repair (Note:- All pentax official repair will be done by third party shop)

Currently the third party repair shope is saying, it is not the problem with battery it is the problem with reflex mirror, stuck in the apperture...etc. They are asking for close 300$ for repair.

Now I realize that with my experiances with Nikon, Canon etc..Overall...Pentax was not worth for the money I spend.
Please spend wisely..

Full manual controls, great personality, enjoys walks on beach. Dec 28, 2009
I love my Pentax K10D. The newer models (K20D, K-7) are certainly evolutions on this platform, but they don't really add enough new features to justify the cost. I guess that's another way of saying that there isn't really much missing from my K10D.

What do I love? I love all the buttons and dials. I love being able to throw a switch to change the metering mode or to turn on exposure bracketing. I use those features -- a lot. I *love* the little green button that quickly adjusts the shutter speed to correct exposure when in Manual mode. That makes it extremely easy to set a reference exposure and then fine-tune or re-compose the shot, etc. That feature is something that I think I would miss greatly if I didn't have it (and I haven't found that feature in any Canon or Nikon body). I also love having dedicated wheels for aperature and shutterspeed and the lever on the side near the lens for flipping between the various focus modes (manual, AF-S and AF-C).

In case it's not obvious, I'm a big fan of Pentax ergonomics. This is a solid camera and fits great in larger hands. My *ist DS before that was solid too -- but a lot smaller. Compared to other brands, the Pentax just felt like I was getting my money's worth. I'm also a big fan of the weather sealing. I don't stand out in the rain, but I'm not concerned about it getting splashed, etc. Maybe it's just psychological, since I haven't really put it to the test, but it feels like a rugged camera.

And features like anti-shake are great; I use that all the time. And the sensor clean seems to be working really well. I had dust issues with my previous Pentax camera (*ist DS), but have had no problems with dust on my K10D sensor.

Now, it's not all puppy dog tails; there are some ways that the K10D is inferior and some ways that just owning a Pentax is a little more work.

For one thing, choosing Pentax does mean that you will have to settle for a narrower selection of lenses and lens accessories (especially if you're not interested in using older lenses). For a long time after buying my K10D, there wasn't a single fast, long lens (70-200 f/2.8) in production. Now there is a Tamron, Sigma, and a couple of Pentax models in this general area. And now I'm a little disappointed to be going through something similar with a long (180mm-200mm) macro lens. I'm also bummed that Kenko extension tubes don't seem to be available anymore for Pentax mount; maybe that's a temporary thing. Yeah, it'd be simpler to own a Canon or Nikon, but then I wouldn't own a Pentax. :) To be fair, though, one of the strengths of the Pentax DSLR bodies is that you can use basically any Pentax mount lens ever produced. This means that you can buy used lenses to fill the gaps; they just don't come with as many acronyms tacked on -- or that new fancy, fast-focus system (SDM).

And the menu system is pretty rough. The basic shooting functions (flash, WB, etc.) are simple & intuitive, but you should avoid pressing the "Menu" button if there are children or clergy nearby: the idiosyncratic interpretation of how you accept/change/cancel settings will likely end with explitives. Once you get used to it, you'll be fine navigating the depths of the camera's configuration -- but then probably unable to operate your microwave.

And finally, there are some things that I am waiting for before I upgrade the camera again. I don't think these are problems, but they are things that I'd like to see improved:
(1) mirror lockup (MLU). Currently there is a 2-second timer that serves much the same purpose, but other cameras support this MLU feature without requiring a 2-second delay (that would be useful to me for macro work).
(2) Better control of noise. I'm happy with a 10 or 12MP camera. I'm fairly convinced by the claim that the lens is the limiting factor at this point anyway. I'd rather Pentax focus on low-noise at high ISO. Sure, I can shoot at 800 without really losing quality, but I want to shoot at 1600 without noticing it. If my wife can do that on her Canon 40D, why can't I? Pentax needs to step up their game in this area.

So, despite a few niggles and qualifications, I think the Pentax K10D is a phenomenal camera. I've periodically looked at other systems (and I use my wife's Canon 40D from time to time), but at the end of the day, I really like the Pentax. It's got a lot of character, really suits my propensities for manual controls, and its rugged & weather-proof body makes me imagine that I could trek through the jungle with this camera ... even if the closest I usually get is lying on mulch to photograph Snow Drops in the Spring.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Two Years On... Dec 02, 2009
Pentax K10D 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction and 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens I purchased this camera in December of 2007. I have waited two years before reviewing the performance of this camera in order to use it under a wide variety of conditions. I am happy to report that it has performed perfectly in a wide range of conditions over the past two years. The camera body is extremely well made, (even though final assembly for the bodies of Pentax DSLR's occurs in the Philippines and the Pentax lenses are assembled in Vietnam). The quality of the lens is equally good, while also being extremely light.
One reason for the design of DSLR's is to duplicate the "What you see in the viewfinder is what you get in the image" feature of traditional 35mm and some medium-format film cameras prior to the arrival of digital cameras. The K10D accomplishes this very well. I find myself framing, composing and shooting the same way I used to with my film cameras. This is accomplished with the traditional reflex mirror SLR design used in the K10D. This does however create a drawback in that the K10D cannot display the through-the lens CCD image on the 2.5" LCD display. In order to see the image the camera sees on the LCD display, you must utilize the preview feature which allows you to capture the CCD image in the LCD display without the captured image actually being saved to the removable memory card.
The image quality is outstanding, and the K10D offers a wide range of options for manual control. In addition to the fully automatic Green setting, which allows "point and shoot" capability in a wide range of conditions, there are priority settings for shutter speed, aperture, EV (ISO "film speed") value as well as a unique feature which allows for both aperture and shutter speed values based on a continuously variable ISO value, something impossible in film cameras. The built in metering system works well in most regular lighting conditions. Extreme low light shooting requires use of the system's built in spot and area metering system, which allows you to set which of four quadrants within the frame are to be read by the CCD for rendering exposure settings. The built in pop-up flash unit works well within its limited capacity as a fixed angle straight on un-diffused blue xenon electronic flash. I recommend getting either one of two available dedicated flash units, Pentax AF 360 FGZ or the AF-200FG if you plan on doing a lot of flash photography. As with virtually all Pentax cameras, the K-mount lenses will mount to this camera, even lenses used on my old K-1000 film SLR. Although the formatting is not 1:1 between the 35mm and the CCD format, conversion is easy. Although auto focus does not work with the older lenses, the K10D still beeps when the subject is properly focused manually with an older lens. Diaphragm automation in older lenses depends on how old the lenses are, so this varies depending on the individual lens.
The included and proprietary lithium battery pack has good charge life and holds its charge well when not in use. However, I've noticed that the threshold between fully charged and fully discharged is narrow and abrupt, so you can suddenly find yourself with discharged battery and a shut down camera fairly quickly. Carrying a spare battery pack, easily available for about $50 is another worthwhile accessory. The included and dedicated charger charges the battery pack fully within about two hours. Overall, an excellent camera. One that is as of this writing no longer in production, having been replaced by cameras that have been refined designs of this camera. I can say that any of these newer machines would be an excellent choice because the K10D is such an outstanding camera.