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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.

The K200D is a compact 10.2-megapixel consumer SLR with the same CCD as the Pentax K10D and shares the build quality and dust- and weather-proofing of Pentax’s more advanced SLRs. The company notes that the K200D is the only weather-resistant camera in its class. This SLR also stands apart from the crowd by running on four AA batteries, and offers both sensor-shift optical image stabilization and a built-in automatic system for removing dust from the sensor. Its new Dust Alert function shows the exact location of dust particles on the LCD to make it easier to remove the stubborn bits. The K200D has a 230,000-dot, 2.7-inch LCD with a wide 160-degree viewing angle for image display and menu navigation, and provides a pentamirror optical viewfinder with 96 percent coverage and 0.85x magnification.

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 trustedviews

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

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.

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