Very simple to understand. Is not overloaded with bells and whistles that a beginner cannot understand. Great price.

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I researched and planned for months to buy a Canon EOS Rebel G. I finally bought one, but took it back. I went to return it to buy the Rebel 2000, but tried the Pentax and now am kicking myself for not buying this a month earlier. This is a great camera at an affordable price.

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This little guy is so easy to use! Put it to green mode and grandmoms will be happy with it. This camera is just perfect for me as I have NO experience before. The coolest thing besides it's price tag(I got it for $180) is whenever I feel "lazy", I can put it to all automatic, and it does the work itself. BTW, the AF is very fast too.

I don't know was that caused by my violent usage or what, the battery cover came off, but I didn't have to send it back, I just taped it back on. Besides that, the AF sometimes looks inaccurate when you use it in dark conditions. I think it performs a lot better outdoors than indoors. I went onboard a carrier with it, it's great when I used it on the flight deck, but when I got to the hangar deck, it gets tricky even with the flash. I also used it to shoot some dawn/dusk sceneries, and they came out pretty good.

Very small, very light, very easy, fairly cheap (I am a student!)

Customer Service

Haven't used it yet, but I had it's pretty good.

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None, this thing is good enough for me.

Fast autofocus, user-friendly, low price.

TTL flash, no exposure-lock, no multiple exposure option.

Best at this price. Ideal for beginners and provides enough facility for intermediates if not for experts.

Customer Service

Not required so far.

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Nil.

Like this camera. Auto-focus is fast, in fact faster than those which are priced more expensive.
Simple to use, with manual control.
Used with a Pentex flash, metering is very accurate.

View finder is little too dark for dark shots.
Not enough 3rd-party len makers make for this model (but then again I might be wrong)

Good camera for beginners, like me. Pix reproduction is good for different types of shots.

Customer Service

So far none required yet.

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Canon EOS series (borrowed).

high speed focus system
easy to use

2 zones metering, makes it hard to meter indoor, and metering is inaccurate.

I sold the camera!!! pentax is unreliable.

Customer Service

POOR!!!
after less than 1 year the camera starts to forward frames one on the other.
cost of fix is about 150$.
pentax customer service email is uneffective. international warrany is not acceptible.

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very user friendly; great body with handy dials made handling comfortable; very reliable metering; fast focus; light weight; budget friendly.

film forwarding is rather noisy; cannot rewind bulk loaded film; no DOF review; the aperture setting on lens can only be fixed @ A; to set at other aperture setting the camera will operate manually without TTL metering.

recommended for beginners to amateurs. Get good lens to go complementary with this body. I have been using this body for around 2years plus and i am so far very pleased with its performance. I bought pentax lense 17-28/80-320/35-80/100mm macro to go with this body. Pentax lenses are great.

Customer Service

very efficient

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Easy to use. I moved from a totally manual Pentax mv to this. Has always given me a good picture.

Problems focusing when many objects are in the same view but at different distances. Could be user error, though.

Love the camera got the body and two lenses at a great price.

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lightweight,easy to use
excellent,high quality
pictures.

hard to find exact point of focus on the
shutter button without
rushing the trip point.

GREAT CAMERA FOR THE MONEY. 80-210 PROMASTER
LENS IS VERY NICE COMPLEMENT TO THIS CAMERA.

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Comfortable, ergonomically well designed, light, good lens used for it's price. Very solid construction, great aesthetics. Able to be used by all types of photograhers. Value for money.

Unable to do multiple exposers. no depth of field preview, hard to focus in low light.

Great camera except for a few functions which should be added for the price, other than that, a great camera for all occasions. The pentax camera can only be used with pentax lenses, and pentax lenses are very good, which is the most important factor. Good lenses make a good picture, the body just helps the lens do it.

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Nikon FM2 and FM10

Easy to use, a camera suitable for photography idiots and pros. Aesthetics wise, it rules with solid construction and finishing. Also, it's value for money.

No depth of field preview, quite a headache sometimes. Focus is very difficult in low light and cluttered compositions.

Great camera. I don't think this camera should be reserved for beginner photographers. Pros wanting a light weight, fast AF should go for this too, if of course, you need a shutter speed of 1/8000 or something.

Customer Service

Don't know about after sales service as mine have not broken down yet, but service was great.

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