Testing the K10D
If it withstands those conditions it must be good.
Look forward to the Pics
Pete
Only problem with Safari is the light, you just cant pick and choose the conditions for the best shots - some are full overhead light, some early morning / late evening etc... but just made the best of what was available.
What was interesting is that I only saw 2 other users of SLR's (of any type) whilst out there and only 1 of those with a lens capable of taking long range shots. Just imagine one person paying all that money for Safari and doing all their pics on a mobile phone
That said I now have my Bigma and hope to go back to TZ next year
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17 years
Wiltshire
The image stabilisation worked a treat allowing me to take photos at 2x -3xlower ISO ratings than I'm used to. (500mm at 1/200 is fine even on the back of a Safari bus with the engine still running)
Every time I changed lense I ran the dust removal system and no dust spots at all.
Focusing was faster than the ist DS with the same lenses.
The seals coped perfectly with the Savanagh conditions with no problems at all (I've seen threads saying dust gets behing the prievew screen but no issues with this)
The only problem I had is that you must turn to AF-S or M mode when using the flash otherwise the IR doesn't fire aon the AF360 unit (nor does the pre-flash on the inbuilt flash). I used AF-C nearly all the time for wildlife and it was brilliant. The speed of changing from centre spot focus / metering to other modes also helped greatly enabling shots to be taken when I would still be changing modes on the DS.
I bought the camera for these abilities and not the 10mp sensor - Really impressed and all held up superbly.
Battery was great giving about 500 shots before re-charging and 3fps for 10 frames in PEF was more than adequate. I conditions where the local power goes off a lot having 2hr recharging for the battery was good (typically 1hr was possible where the battery was only partially discharged).
Still can't get to grips with with taking pics over water - nearly always under exposes for some reason. Mind you I shoot in RAW nearly all the time so not such a problem.
Overall 10x better than the ist DS in these conditions.
Well done Pentax from a very happy customer.