Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 6:01 pm IST

Pentax K10D

13 Feb, 2007, 2:30 pm IST | Gagan Gupta | DSLRs DSLRs

Features
There's just so much packed into the K10! To begin with, the excellent CCD-shift based shake reduction system that's made up of permanent magnets, ball bearings and four coils on the CCD plate giving the ability to move in x and y directions and also rotationally around the lens axis.

Even after having that highly enforced body, there's still a chance that you may get a stray dust particle on your CCD when changing your lens or any other situation that makes your sensor vulnerable.

It's got an 11 point auto focus with 9 points in the center that helps focus on all kinds of details, whether horizontal or vertical.

Besides the Shutter Priority and Aperture Priority modes, the K10D also features a Hyper Program mode with which you can use the two dials to switch instantly between shutter priority and aperture priority modes. There's also a Sensitivity Priority mode that gives faster access to the camera's sensitivity.

I particularly loved the white balance preview mode that the K10D gives you, where you can use the last image you clicked to set the right white balance. It's innovative and makes the task a lot easier.

These are just some of the additional features that the K10D has. Overall, it has just about everything that you could ask for and more. Let's see if the performance matches up to that.

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Tags: Pentax , D-SLR , digicam , digital camera , K-10D , 10 megapixel

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