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Originally Posted by Joe
For my money, and if I had to choose between the two, with main use being to fit to any high magnification lens set up, there would only be one choice..
The Pentax K100D.
Slight downside is it's use of AA batteries...and it does come with some rather cr@ppy alkalines. I thoroughly recommend the use of two rechargeable CRV3 batteries to overcome this.
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When I was using the *istDS, now used by Debbi (Mrs Y), I used CR-V3 single use batteries. I got on average, about 1900 shots out of a set of these. If you wait until 7-day shop have them on special offer (quite often), you can buy them in bulk and they are quite cheap. Never tried the rechargeable versions as I got fed up with the self-discharge characteristics of Ni-MH technology.
Single use CR-V3s are ready when you need them, give faster AF than Ni-MHs, and lasted me typically about 6 months. It's a good overall compromise. I'd say Joe's analysis of "
slight downside" is accurate.
In-body anti-shake typically gives a 2 stop advantage I'd say from my experience of the K10D.