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I bought an *istD new in late '03 and aside from it being too small, was quite happy with it.
I never had any performance complaints until I bought the K10D, and now I think the *istrD is slow. But that is the result of 4 years of development across the entire market, not just pentax.
Having said that, I have kept the *istD and use it interchangably wioth the K10D. The *istD makes a great back up body, has similar controls, and does 2 things the K10D does not do.
First it works with TTL flash, so I can better use flash for my somewhat old and long lenses, and second, it has 3200 ISO, and great noise performance at high ISO. This is important to me as I shoot a lot of stage performances without flash.
It also has more consistent metering for old lenses., although that is simple enough to overcome with the use of the histogram.
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