Pentax K200D digital SLR

And hats off to Pentax for providing an excellent 260-page paper instruction manual - and for the fact that the supplied Photo Browser picture viewing software and Photo Laboratory editing software install very quickly.

If you simply switch the K200D on and leave it in auto - which we suspect the vast majority of users will do - you’ll generally get pleasing results. Picture noise is low, even at the higher ISO settings, and Pentax even provides a noise-reduction system for when the camera is at a high sensitivity setting. That said, we didn’t see it making a great deal of difference.

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We liked the amount of fine detail that the K200D seemed to capture

The K200D shoots up to 2.8f/s at the largest image file setting, storing up to four frames at a time

The K200D comes packaged with an SMC Pentax DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 lens, equivalent to a 28-83mm lens in the 35mm format