Pentax K200D Reviews

Jun.11, 2008 in Pentax

PENTAX Corporation is pleased to introduce the PENTAX K200D lens-interchangeable digital SLR camera. Designed mainly for family users and digital camera beginners, this popular-class model offers a host of user-friendly features and sophisticated functions like higher-class models. As a result, even digital camera beginners can enjoy advanced digital SLR photography with great ease. Pursuing image quality, user-friendliness, operability and cost performance, the K200D is expected to be a new standard-setter in the popular-class market.
What to make of the K200D, on balance? It’s an unquestionably solid camera, and I generally found its straight-from-camera images rich, vibrant, and (with the right settings) smooth – all the reasons we buy DSLRs. Visually and functionally, the camera is a bit vanilla; given the really sharp, intuitive interfaces on some of its competitors, the Pentax may be a bit of hard sell for newbies who heavily bias look and feel in making purchasing decisions. Advanced shooters may be equally disappointed that Pentax didn’t cut the questionably valuable scene modes altogether and retain a more advanced control layout (with two dials).

Pentax K200D Reviews From trustedreviews

Features 8/10
Image Quality 8/10
Value 8/10
Overall 8/10

Pentax K200D Reviews From digitalcamerareview

Pros:
* Solid AF performance for an entry-level cam
* Good battery life with the right cells
* Rugged, all-weather construction
* High-quality kit lens

Cons:
* Menus awkward at times
* Heavy and large for a consumer cam
* ISO 1600 a bit weak
* Continuous shooting still slow

Pentax K200D Reviews From cnet

The good:
Sensor-shift image stabilization; wireless flash control; sensitivity-priority mode; dust and water resistant.

The bad:
Inaccurate, though still pleasing colors; tends to underexpose images; no live view mode.

The bottom line:
Pentax’s K200D entry-level SLR gives a lot of bang for the buck and has better performance than last year’s model. Despite low noise and pleasingly detailed images, technically inaccurate colors keep it from capturing the gold medal for image quality.