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Is K100d too old?

Started Apr 2, 2012 | Discussions thread
Maxwell Smart Senior Member • Posts: 2,947
Re: Is K100d too old?

Pentax_Prime wrote:

To any noobs reading; the below statement is 100% false and is more influenced by nostalgia than reality.

Kyle Logan wrote:

And the IQ, not performance, rivals, if not exceeds the K-5 sometimes, IMO.

Well...I recently went back and looked at the test images I took with my K100D to compare against the K-7 I was buying just two years ago. I have to admit that those K100D images don't look nearly as good as I remembered. I'd have to agree that, at least in my case, there is a lot of nostalgia attached to my memory of those older cameras (I had a ist* DL before the K100D). Being honest, I'm hard-pressed to think of a situation or parameter where the IQ of those older cameras exceeds the current ones.

Terrific bang for the buck though back when a ist* DL with kit lens was $367 and a FA50/1.4 was only $162. 2006 was the good old days.

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