| Design | 4.4/5 |
| Display & Viewfinder | 4/5 |
| Menus & Buttons | 4.6/5 |
| Features | 4.6/5 |
| Image quality | 4.6/5 |
| Sensor | 4.3/5 |
| Lens | 4.3/5 |
| Transfer & Storage | 4/5 |
| Accessories | 3.5/5 |
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Pros:
Great RAW image quality. Impressive feature set and interface. Solid handling. |
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Cons:
JPEG image performance was not the best. Lens cap kept falling off. |
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| If you're just breaking into photography and want to attack innocent subject matter with a DSLR rather than a fixed lens, there's a sizable market of entry-level DSLRs out there to get the ball rolling. The Pentax K2000 is one of the more unconventional models, due to its optional all-white chassis. Love it or hate it, the K2000 is a great camera to learn on, offering oodles of shooting features and modes that will toss any budding photographer into the front row of Digital Imaging 101. The K2000 also captured some killer images in bright and low light, some of which we'd deem magazine quality, as long as they were snapped in the RAW format. Pentax also throws in two lenses, a wide-angle and telephoto, and tacks an impressive interface on the K2000, complete with an intuitive menu system and generous external controls. We loved shooting with the K2000 in all shooting environments and its Digital Filters and Color options were fun to play with. If you dare to be different and lust to be the next Ansel Adams, the Pentax K2000 is a great start. |
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