One can’t really get the measure of a complex camera like the Pentax 10D after just a week of use and a few hundred frames. But, it didn’t take me long to discover that this is a camera that the sophisticated user will find to be a pleasure to work with. Image quality is on a par with virtually anything else on the market, the camera is very feature rich, the price is right, and it therefore isn’t a stretch to say that the K10D is probably the best value in a 10 Megapixel DSLR at this time.
As a Canon user I can only wish that the folks at Canon’s marketing and engineering department have a close look at some of the more innovative features offered by Pentax in this new model. With DNG, post exposure JPG processing, and auto-ISO with limit setting, Pentax now offers one of the most innovative feature sets to be found on any DSLR. It looks like the big boys are going to have to start playing catch-up.
The story: I took the train to San Francisco very early on this warm and hazy July morning and walked along the waterfront toward the Ferry Building.
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The story: This photo was taken on a beautiful clear early summer day at Tioga Lake, one of those first days of the new season when the sun is warm, the air is still, and mountain visitors are beginning to return to the mountains. Just before Tioga Pass on the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park there was still plenty of snow around, from the patches in the meadow just below the pass to the large snowfields on Mammoth Peak and Kuna ridge in the distance.
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But there’s one category I know about that no one else seems to think of: people who buy artworks because they want to be artists/photographers/painters by proxy. They want to be the sort of person who’s out on the beach at dawn, seeing how wonderful God’s creation looks as the sea breeze starts to stir and the fog starts to burn off over the ocean but lingers in the trees. The problem is that they’ve discovered that at dawn, on the beach, when the sea breeze starts to stir and the fog starts to burn off, it’s often cold and wet and dark and fairly nasty- any sensible person would be in bed, fast asleep, and not out in the cold and wet and dark witnessing God’s creation.
While not at all sensible, I think I like to be the sort who is on the beach at dawn… ;-)
By the way, visit the original article by clicking the title link above, and enjoy the beautiful monochrome photo that Paul Butzi has included with his post.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
Photographer and visual opportunist. Daily photos since 2005, plus articles, reviews, news, and ideas.
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