Originally posted by Hannican hmm... I like the loud shutter slap of the K10D. It feels like a real camera...
The "pish" sound of cheap C*nons sounds pathetic to me... I can't remember what N*kons sound like, but I hope Pentax doesn't start emulating this.
By all means, I do hope that Pentax makes more moves in the right direction. I started with the *ist-D, which had a pretty good shutter assembly; fairly quiet and smooth. As a back up, I added an *istDS, which had an awful shutter/mirror assembly and I can tell you that it made at least a stop difference in what I could handhold. My K10D was really no better, though with the chunkier body it does absorb the knock better, and of course it added SR. The K20D was better, but still not as good at the *istD. The end result is that I know I am losing sharpness in dim light because of the poor shutter/mirror assembly. Very honestly, at wide angles (where I tend to shoot), the addition of SR only makes for wash as compared to a camera with no SR, but a good shutter. I have loved my K10D, but hated the shutter and would have really loved it had the shutter been even as good as my five or six year old *istD. I am glad to hear that Pentax is moving in the right direction, because they had it totally wrong on a lot of their cameras.
If Pentax can bring their shutter/mirror assembly quality up to even the level of a mid level Canon or Nikon, I will be so happy. If they don't, I will still likely end up with a K-7, but I will have lingering disappointment.