Pentax Digital Cameras?

[Out_to_lunch]

Does anyone have any experience using them?
They look like they have a quality product, and all of the reviews I've read seem good. ANY information would be greatly apreciated.

thanks in advance!

[Flake]

I just got one of their digital slr's, the ist DS. It's one hell of alot of camera. I'm still learning how to make it do things the way I want, but I've always shot pentax and it seems just as good as all the 35mm cameras I've had. Last week I was guiding a guy who recently retired near the top of their marketing division. He had a tiny camera, can't recall the model but it shot nice pics. As a side note their binoculars are top notch as well. It was hard to tell the difference from my zeiss.

[BigKuba]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Pentax/

the most in-depth reviews you could possibly imagine, and good forums too.

[hemas]

I just got one of their digital slr's, the ist DS. It's one hell of alot of camera. I'm still learning how to make it do things the way I want, but I've always shot pentax and it seems just as good as all the 35mm cameras I've had. Last week I was guiding a guy who recently retired near the top of their marketing division. He had a tiny camera, can't recall the model but it shot nice pics. As a side note their binoculars are top notch as well. It was hard to tell the difference from my zeiss.

That tiny model must have been from the Optio S-series. My digicam is Optio S4 (newer model is S4i or 5mpix version S5i), and hte only problem with that camera is that it doesn't take good pics while it's dark and you don't use the flash, then again I haven't found a single small digicam that does it well either. Also my model has some lag while taking pics, so actionshots may not always work well...

[Out_to_lunch]

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Pentax/

the most in-depth reviews you could possibly imagine, and good forums too.

Yeah, I checked there and pratically everywhere else, and like i said everything I saw was good, I was just looking for some real "yeah I really like it" or "these cameras suck" information.

I was looking at the Optio 750z, so if anyone has used that one in particular.......

thanks again

[Uma]

Thanks for those links. My boyfriend lost my Sony when we were in the backcountry last week and I'm looking for a good replacement. I'm going to print some of that information for comparison's sake.