Just in case anyone has forgotten just how good the *istDL2 is in amongst all the talk of K10Ds

This was taken by my Dad with his DL2 using a Celestron 8" Newtonian and a Jessops 2x converter to give a 2000mm focal length

its actually about 10 frames stacked in Registax, but all this really does is reduce the noise (which was pretty low to start with).




ISO 400
~ 1/60th
F10

like I said, its a small one

it has just come to my attention that to plug in the wired shutter release you have to open the sealed door on the left hand side of the camera, exposing the data and power sockets to the elements.

What if you want to use a cable release in the rain?

IMO the cable release port should have its own door and should seal to the release itself.

so far this is just about the only design quibble I've been able to come up with, and its a small one.

lets see......... Genie wishes really ought to be things money can't buy, what should I have


1. a pocket sized device which renders all flash P&S flash units within a 50m radius of my position inoperable for 10 minutes.

2. one of those pieces of telepathic paper the Doctor has in the new Dr Who, so it can turn into a photographers pass whenever anyone questions my right to shoot in an area.

3. A full height tripod which is as stable as a rock, folds down to slip into a shirt pocket and weighs nothing

fix the stop down metering.

My DL2 requires an overexposure of +2 constantly with M42 lenses. That's fine. The K10D seems to do funny things with M42 lenses which is most annoying.

Oh and another call for an AA battery grip, even if it has to have 8 cells to give the oomph needed, I would like to have backup power options.

This is also my conclusion, I have decided to keep my DL2 and have the 18-55 lens on it to keep the better handling and SR of the K10D free for long and specialist lenses.

An improvement in day to day image quality is not what I bought the K10D for, I bought it for SR, the .95x finder, the front E-dial, Sv mode, a 9 frame Raw buffer, and support for future SSM lenses.

Another interesting question might be, how much does 10MP vs 6 increase your ability to crop.

I agree, my point was that shooting all RAW you can easily get to where you would have been if you'd shot JPG without any further work on your part (provided you don't run out of storage space), but the reverse is not true.

I actually very rarely batch process the lot, generally I do go through and selectively enhance the images I really like, but even using the basic software which comes with the camera it's quite amazing what a little tweek to the WB and some messing with exposure/contrast/saturation does to a picture.

who said you HAVE to process each individually?

If you batch process the whole lot without changing a setting you get what you would have got if you'd shot JPG in the first place, the only difference is that if and when you find one which needs more manipulation, you can go back to the raw file and fiddle.

I'm afraid the only reason I can see for shooting JPG is space saving. But of course that is the great thing about these cameras, we are all free to set our menu and custom functions however we wish.

thanks for the explanation George and John, very interesting

Can someone explain to me why this is? is it just that it does you no good 'cause you're allready on a tripod, or does SR actually cause bad things to happen if you are tripod mounted?