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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-12-2007, 07:08 AM
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K100D is the best buy for the bucks.
Don't get the GX10, because it lacks compressed RAW. It has not PEF (seems that Pentax haven't licensed Samsung to market the GX10 with it), which is compressed. The GX10 only supports DNG RAW format in an uncompressed manner of which the file size of a single image can be very large (around 17MB each IIRC).
If you really choose the GX10, get only a K10D. You will probably need to shoot RAW most of the time with the K10D as its jpegs are just crappy, honestly speaking. And to get the better out of the K10D, you need to shoot RAW and use better RAW convertors like the ACR in order to produce higher resolution images. In all other cases, you'll be just able to get the so-called "soft edge jpegs" (as mentioned by Phil Askey) or inferior jpegs as stated by Klaus Schroiff of PhotoZone.
By the way, as with any Pentax DSLR, it is always preferable to shoot RAW instead of jpegs owing to the high inaccuracy in exposure and auto white balance. So, RAW can rectify those errors, to a certain extent, at the post processing and conversion stage.
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