Pentax K20d review

[lizardman_u]

I recently purchased a Pentax K20d camera kit (body, two lenses, SD card, bag, cleaning supplies).

I like this camera as it takes very crisp photos, will accept all my old Pentax styled bayonet mount lenses.

The anti-shake device built into the camera works well as long as you use common sense on shutter speed and focal length of lense.

The hot shoe syncs up well with my old vivitar flash units.

Here is an example of low light photo without using flash (only light comes from aquarium light) taken with old style manual focus lense:

regular light photo using auto focus lense:

Picture of snow falling at night, hand held, no other light but lamp post lit (no flash):

enjoy,
Dave

 

[Bob W]

I'm still not to the spot where I can justify upgrading from film to digital, but I like what I'm seeing.

Nice guppies and neons, BTW.

 

[lizardman_u]

I'm still not to the spot where I can justify upgrading from film to digital, but I like what I'm seeing.

Nice guppies and neons, BTW.

Thanks for the compliment Bob. The fish tank picture is of my 20 gallon tank (neons, guppies [my wife wanted them], and freshwater shrimp [red cherry shrimp]).

I figured long run the cost of film processing would pay for the switch to digital as I was sending my film to a pro lab that would cost me $50.00 per roll to print 4x6 and make slides off of the print film for $5.00 per roll (as oposed to $10.00 or more per print for making a print from slide film).

Dave

 

[termite]

I'll be anxious to hear more. I've shot with Pentax forever and keep looking at the 20D, but have been looking at the Nikon 700 as well. Enjoy, the 20D gets loads of praise and seems like a real bargain.