Summary: Great pics, long battery life

Comment: I have had the camera about a month and am very happy with it. It takes great quality pictures and has a great battery life. I've had the originals in for about a month, and the battery light still says they're full.

The only thing I would suggest is to buy a tripod if you plan on using the night setting. It does a great job with the lighting, but it's hard get a focused picture without resting it on something like a tripod or other surface.

Summary: Great camera for both Pros and Amatuers

Comment: I am an amateur photographer, and till recently I was using a Canon 500N 35mm SLR, which I loved. Its my first DSLR camera, and I am very happy with it. I did a lot of research, and comparisons with Canon and Nikon. Once I decided on Pentax, I had trouble deciding between Pentax K10D and K200D. After a lot of research, I chose K200D, for the following reasons:

1. Both offer the same features and functions, but K200D is cheaper.
2. The only key differences between the 2 are that K10D has a pentaprism viewfinder, whereas K200D has a pentamirror. This doesnt cause any change to the quality of pics taken. The second is that K10D, being the prosumer camera, has most of its functions adjustable manually without having to go into the menu. In K200D, these must be set in the menu settings. Again, no big deal. Just a convenience.
3. K10D is heavier than K200D. For an outdoor person like myself, the weight is an important factor when I am walking on rough and uneven trails for many hrs. With the bag, and camera around your neck, and your friends hurrying you up, you dont want a very heavy camera.
4. K200D is a camera released 2 years after K10D. Its most likely that there are improvements in the software, bugs fixed, if any.
5. K10D only has manual modes. K200D has both preset modes and manual. I see no harm in having the preset modes, even though I dont intend to use them. Might help when I have little time to setup and shoot.

The K200D camera itself is a very beautiful camera, easy to hold and use. It has a robust design, and great performance, under all conditions. ITs even water and dust resistant. The image stabilization function is very useful. The camera has a pretty big image viewer, which shows high and low contrast areas in the image. Useful function.

Some usability issues I noticed was that the function button used for selecting ISO, number of frames, etc, turns off the screen as soon as you select. Thats kind of annoying, because, I would like to see the selection I made on the screen, as confirmation.

Overall, very impressive camera, and I love it. See my sample images.

Summary: amazing

Comment: I have had the camera for a month and I am totally satisfied. I did alot of research and I couldn't be happier with it. I also got the extreme III card from Sandisk and it is very fast.

Summary: Pentax k200d

Comment: I have used the camera for about a month now (1500 pictures) and I am in love with it. Paired with the Pentax 18-250mm zoom lens it has been a joy to use. With its incamera stablization, I have been able to capture great shots from Macro to the full extention of the zoom. The greatest benefit for me has been its ability to capture pictures that require no adjustments at all other than the occasional crops. I highly recommend both the camera and the 18-250 lens.

Summary: Great beginning to D-SLR

Comment: I have had a 35mm SLR for several years but it has been collecting dust since the digital revolution and I purchased my first digital point and shoot. Lately I have missed the control that I have with the SLR. After doing some research as to if my film lenses would fit and what the reviews were I purchased the K200D and was surprised by all that it has to offer. I love the fact that it uses AA batteries which I use rechargeable without any problems, the good battery life was also a surprise. This is a great camera and has renewed my passion for enthusiast photography. This camera has all the convenience of a point and shoot with the quality and control of an SLR great entry to midlevel camera with lots of room to grow.