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Pentax K200D 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera with Shake Reduction (Body Only)
From Pentax
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Customer Reviews

Another good Pentax camera
The only thing this camera does not have that I wish it did was a live preview. It is backwards compatible with my older Pentax lens, so I would rather have that than a live preview. Also, and almost as important to me, it uses AA batteries. I will not buy any product that uses a “special” battery…they are overpriced and you have to have at least two to have a spare. I have 24 NiMH rechargeables and a charger analyzer that keeps them in good shape. I thank Pentax for those two features. By the way, the picture quality is excellent. The colors are vivid and well saturated with and without the flash. The flash works well up close (3 feet) unlike most others. The pictures are sharp and well defined from edge to edge. I would have given it 5 stars if it had a live preview. I had looked at two companies who said they were in stock for immediate shipment, but when I ordered the camera and did not buy an expensive Li-Ion battery and large “extremely fast” memory card they were all of a sudden out of stock. Both of them NYC Broadway camera companies. I ordered from Amazon, which cost a little more, but had the camera in two days with no shipping cost. Thanks Amazon for being there again. I should have never wandered away.

Great camera with everything you might need.
Hello fellow Amazon.com shoppers,

As there are many reviews about this camera I will keep this one short.
Pros:
-Great PQ
-Lots of user settings, but auto settings work as good, it picks up the correct scene every time in auto mode. You will quickly understand the menu UI and different settings as they are very good described both visualy and as text on the screen.
-Good VR, you don’t hear or feel a buzz, which is good.
-I was able to use my old (‘87) 35-70 and 70-210 Pentax lenses. Autofocus works as it should razor sharp and exposure is correctly calculated.
-I really like the kit lens, it is of far better quality than other brands kit lenses. It comes with lens hood and has a professional look to it. Very fast AF (way faster than Nikon!)

Cons:
-The included lithium batteries (AA-size) gave me 750 images instead of the 1200 images as advertised on the box. (12MP JPEG, 10%flash,little screen use).
The next set were Alkaline batteries and gave me 200 shots. So stay away from Alkaline’s. Make sure to get the battery grip BG3 and 2 sets of high capacity NIMH’s. The camera is quite compact compared to Nikon’s but slightly larger than comparable Canon’s. I have large hands as I’m 6′6″ and I really need the battery grip to have a good feel on the camera. I guess the body is the right size for normal people
-The power consumption was higher with the 8GB SDHC card I used at first. Now I get about 900 images with a normal 2GB SD card and one set NiMh’s GP 2700mA. I think the SDHC cards use more power, stay away from them if you don’t need the capacity.

All in all, very satisfied Pentax customer and feel happy everytime I go out and use it. I noticed I take the camera with me more often than I used to because it is so intuitive to operate. You are always fast enough to get that ‘drive by shot’ in the city

Excellent Camera
This is an amazing camera.

I began my search for a camera with the Nikon and Canon products. I had been a Canon S3 IS user for several years and wanted to stick with that brand. However, I was very unhappy to discover that neither Nikon or Canon offered products that ran from AA batteries. Carrying camera gear is issue enough without also having to carry all the extra stuff that goes with rechargeable batteries. When I searched for DSLR devices that ran from AA’s, I discovered the Pentax. I am SO glad I made this purchase. Not only did I get AA as a power source, but the camera is FAR more solid feeling than any of the other DSLRs that I looked at. It is rugged, weatherproof (to some degree), and sports a feature set that lets you work in full automatic mode to full manual mode. You are likely to find, as I did, that the camera invites you to experiment with all the manual options to provides for some incredible levels of creativity. My photography has profoundly improved with this Pentax in my hands.