Digital Camera Review

First Impressions Review

Oct 01, 2006 - By Patrick Singleton
The Pentax K10D is supposed to be the next Pentax K1000 – the camera a million people learned on, the one that showed inexpensive cameras could deliver great results, could last forever, that “pro camera” and “pro result” are related pretty much by coincidence. Technically, the 10-megapixel K10D is an ambitious camera, with both dust and shake reduction, excellent environmental seals and 11-point autofocus. We're told at Photokina that it will sell for 1000 Euros with the 18-55mm zoom, or a few hundred more with the far superior 16-45.
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Picture Quality / Size Options
The Pentax K10D writes JPEGs, Pentax proprietary RAW files, and the open-standard DNG raw format. It's great to see DNG, and we expect K10D users to benefit from shooting that.
 
RAW and DNG files can only be shot at native resolution, which is 3872 x 2592. JPEGs can be shot at full res, 3008 x 2000, and 1824 x 1216. The three JPEG compression settings are Best Better and Good. Good files are the smallest and worst quality. Read our full review for more about differences in the files.
 
Picture Effects Mode
Pentax literature touts 4 black-and-white, 3 sepia, and 18 color “digital filters,” plus special effects and a slim filter. We'll check them out in our full review.
 
The K10D also allows adjustments of contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpening.
 
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