K10D, K100D, Pentax Book - Canada

I went in to the local Henry's where I deal to ascertain the release date and price of the K10D. Their computer shows a release date of November 25 and they expect to get them in the stores a few days later. They were not sure how many each store would receive. The price is shown as CDN$1099 for the body. They indicated that the will not be offering "kits" but bodies only.

This was out of my budget, as I expected it to be, so I walked out with a K100D body. Henry's have a deal where you can trade in a camera within the first year and get " half back" towards a new camera. So I traded in my *istDS2 which was just a few days over one-year old and so far I am extremely pleased with the K100D. My main reason for wanting to upgrade was to get the shake reduction feature. Earlier this month I took over 600 pictures in Mexico with the DS2 and although they were very good I could have used the shake reduction with the longer lenses when photographing birds in flight in poor light.

I then went to the local Chapters Book store in the same mall to pick up a copy of Rick Sammon's - "Travel and Nature Photography" book and also found a Magic Lantern Guide book - "Pentax K100D/K110D" by Joe Farace - published by Lark Books. This is a 208 page guide that at first glance seems quite good.

ISBN: 13: 978-1-60059-086-3
ISBN: 10: 1-60059-086-1

Distributed in UK by GMC Distribution Services.

Hope this information is of use.

Mike

wow I wish Jessops in this country had that deal, I'd have a K100D by now for sure if they did......still come to think of it that sort of thing would probably be bad for my bank ballance overall.

Mongoose,

I had forgotten that Henry's did that and when I was bemoaning the fact that I couldn't get the K10D and that the K100D was going to set me back $700 for the body the sales assistant that I always use reminded me of the offer. She checked my *istDS2 in the computer and although I was about 5 days over the one year said she would process it - obviously I didn't hesitate. There was nothing wrong with my *istDS2 but I couldn't justify having both. So far the K100D is great.

Mike