Which is better?

[KevSC1]

I am going to soon be purchasing an SLR camera.

Which is better?
Pentax K10D, Sony A100, or Cannon Digital Rebel XTi?

Or perhaps something not listed...

Thanks,
Kevan

 

[Chris Elliott104343]

No offence but you are about the 1,000th person to ask that question. Do a search in the relevant forums. Or just scroll back a couple of days. You will find a thread.

I any event it is best to do your own research reading reviews and trying them hands on. You will mostly get biased opinions by way of reply from those who champion their own brand and may use their camera for entirely different purposes to those you intend. E.G. I do lots of available light work so I chose the Nikon D80 - excellent big viewfinder and good performance at ISO 1600.
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Chris Elliott

Nikon D Eighty - Other equipment listed in Profile to aid searching.

http://PlacidoD.zenfolio.com/

 

[David Hughes124436]

I am going to soon be purchasing an SLR camera.

Which is better?
Pentax K10D, Sony A100, or Cannon Digital Rebel XTi?

The answer to this question is another question: "better for what?"...

You see, they are all cameras and - like a lot of others - they take pictures of whatever they are pointing at. Generally they take good pictures if the photographer doesn't interfere too much. Learning when to jump in and over-ride the things takes a while.

Or perhaps something not listed...

Well, I'd say that as SLR's (or what passes for them these days) are designed to take a wide variety of lenses: that's what makes them so versatile. So I think you should be looking at the cameras with the widest range of lenses designed for digital photography. And that means Olympus or Panasonic or Leica which all support the "open standard" for digital called "FourThirds". Most of them are well balanced designs* and you'll find what you probably need in one of the ranges and probably at a price you can afford.

Many cameras take lenses from a wide range of types and makers but few of them are solely designed for digital and some of them are legacy designs going back to the first 35 mm cameras of the 1930's in the way the light reaches the CCD. So to compete with the FourThirds glass you have to look at lenses designed for CCDs not for film. You'll find there aren't as many as you think.

Thanks,
Kevan

Part of the service; 'though some may think I got up in Mr Grumpy mode.

Regards, David

• By well balanced I mean sensible. Not much point in having a camera that turn out enough pixels to do 32" by 24" at 300 dpi/ppi if you can't afford a printer that takes rolls of 24" wide glossy paper. Better to get a sensible number of pixels and an A4 printer... (Look up Da Vinci Fibre Gloss Smooth in rolls to see what I mean.)

 

[K1000Photographer]

I would say it is a choice between the Alpha and the K10D. Both produce a more natural image but the K10D is quite a bit more refined.