An old but very capable K-3, first experience with Pentax

jamesm007 wrote:

Read your review. Back when I bought my first dSLR one of the main attributes people told beginners like me to look for was, how does it feel in your hand. There were more B&M stores back then. I could try the cameras I was thinking of buying. The Camera had to have built in Shake Reduction. So my choices after looking at Nikon and Canon were the Oly E510, Pentax K10, and Sony A100. The other cameras as you say felt lighter in a negative way. The K10 was solid feeling. And it felt good in my hands. knowing it was all weather gave it the win. However it took awhile for me to decide. Because DPR said it had soft JPEGS. No, it was and is fine with jpegs. Anyways...

I thought I was getting a Sony A100, why? It looked better to me, had a better review. But it felt like, wait to say it like this. But I don't have a better more descriptive way to say how I feel. It felt like a toy, even though it was a highly capable dSLR. Compared to the K10D. Honest. Look at my very first posts on Pentax SLR when I was coming from Kodak with my Kodak P880 (great camera). I was neutral back then, not sold on any brand dSLR.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Brings back memories of why I got sold on Pentax.

Thank you for reading the review and I'm glad you liked it. Yes, I know what you mean about the positive weight. Sometimes it is nice to remember how something felt in the past, isn't it?