But believe me, the pentamirror ain't a patch on the pentaprism
The D, DS, and K10D all have beautiful viewfinders. Personally I'd much, much rather have the viewfinder (and the two wheels, and the wireless flash etc) than SR.
Just depends on what you're doing
Matt

Don't be concerned
The *ist-D works with every current RAW converter there is. Capture One LE, Silkypix, Adobe Camera Raw, etc, etc.

And there's plenty of folks on this forum that have used the *ist-D and still love it (can't quite get round to selling mine... especially when I think of what I paid for it!!!)

Just to make you feel a bit better... it wasn't that long ago that I paid nearly £200 for a 2Gb CF card for the *ist-D Now you can pick up very fast 2Gb cards for next to nothing (try www.picstop.co.uk )
Matt

Ditto George's comment

You forgot one MAJOR difference -
Only the *ist-D, *ist-DS and K10D use a pentaprism

The others are pentamirrors with smaller and darker viewfinders
The *ist-DS can still be had refurbished from SRS Microsystems... but the *ist-D still has features that you haven't got elsewhere, as George said
(Only the K10D betters the *ist-D IMHO, and even then the *ist-D has much better manual white balance capture when using the Expodisc )

EDIT: Regarding image quality - all the 6Mp cameras use the same sensor. So RAW processing is very, very nearly identical (slight changes in electronics excepted). Have used the *ist-DS and *ist-D together and you can't tell them apart. An *ist-D used well with good lenses will still produce absolutely stunning 16x20" prints at 400dpi
And I have a lovely 36x24" canvas of a guitarist in my office that was taken with the *ist-D and 50mm/1.4

Matt

For that price who cares??!
Matt

Weeeeell,
I can say that the SMC-DA 50-200 is a fine little lens
Incredibly small (not much bigger than the 18-55) it's something you can carry around all the time. Contrast is great, colour wonderful, AF is quick.
Not sure how it will compare with the manual lenses you listed - but I reckon it'll be a lot smaller.
Matt

Ooops

I'll try plugging in the headphones...
Matt

Don,
What I see in Firefox is this:
I see the control bar, and there's a 150pixel square image that takes an age to load - when it's loaded it's a 1714779 byte JPG file... but no movie.
The control bar appears to think it's loading a movie, and I can use the scrubber but nothing changes.
HTH!
Matt

Thanks for posting the solution

(Thought for a moment it might have been a Vista issue - which is why I couldn't come back as I'm intentionally not using it.... yet!)
Matt

Very, very interesting

Would be great to WiFi straight to the laptop - no cables to trip over for a shoot (can't imagine what'd happen to K10D and laptop :shock

I thought $100 wasn't bad at all for WiFi!
Of course, the price will come down if it's successful...

Matt

I've got the Kood P filter. Can't remember where I got it - might have been srbfilm.co.uk
Works very well
Matt