Announced on September 14th 2006, just in time for Photokina 2006 the new K10D is Pentax's first forray into the serious-amateur digital SLR market. It's bigger, tougher and more feature rich than any Pentax digital SLR before it and it certainly carries a wide enough range of features to worry the 'big name' brands. Headline features include a stabilized ten megapixel CCD, high quality image processing pipeline, dust and weather proof seals, 11-point AF (with 9 cross-type points) and some unique exposure modes. A full detailed list of the top 20 features can be found below. It's clear that Pentax are targetting the likes of the Canon EOS 30D and Nikon D200, on paper it's a very strong contender, the proof however will be when we get to test a full production camera... [read more]