*ist DS Test in AP

Malcolm Riches · 2005-02-19T05:27:26+0000

I think we need to face the fact that AP. like everyone else, has a 'down' on Pentax generally. It seems to me that unless you are wearing a Canon or Nikon around you neck (so far as SLRs are concerned) you aren't taken seriously. I am concerned that Canon spends a heck of a lot of money promoting competitions (eg APOY, Digital Photographer of the Year in Digital Photo) and appears to arrange a lot of product placement on TV etc. AP loved the top of the range Canon DSLR (EOS1Ds? ), costing as near as dammit £6K for a body alone - and I wondered what an amateur camera mag was doing reviewing a piece of kit costing such an obscene amount of money. Digital Photo also did a 4 way comparison(*istDS, EOS300D, D70 and E300) in current issue. In the image comparison the Pentax gets the lowest score, yet to my eye the images are on a par with those taken with the Canon, which got the top score, and better than the D70 which got a higher score! I posted remarks like this in a general photo forum of which I am a member and got howled down, being told that 70% of photographers at (I think) the Olympics used Canon. So what? They would have been using top of the range models with lens costing £2K+ - and I'm certainly never paying that kind of money for glass