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Pentax *ist D
Prices are rising
How we compute thisUsed prices have been rising recently. Prices are up 33.3% over the last 30 days. The 90-day low was $60, $20 below today. Currently 5% of the $1,700 MSRP.
- Lowest now
- $80
- MSRP
- $1,700
- vs MSRP
- -95%
- 90-day low
- $60
- Low in 26d watched
- $60 (Sep 3, 2026)
- 30-day trend
- +33.3%
Latest pricing by source
Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.| Source | Condition | Price | Listings | Observed | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebay | used → good | $80
+ $11 ship
= $91 | 3 | Observed yesterday | view listing |
Price history
One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.
See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.
Specs
- Brand
- Pentax
- Family
- Pentax *ist
- Category
- body
- Body type
- DSLR
- Mount
- Pentax K
- Sensor
- APS-C
- Megapixels
- 6.1 MP
- Lens type
- —
- IBIS
- —
- Weather sealed
- No
- Max video
- —
- Max native ISO
- —
- Weight
- —
- Dimensions
- —
- Body material
- —
- Released
- 2003-10-01
- Status
- discontinued
Notes
Pentax's first DSLR, and the smallest of its generation. Takes the whole K-mount back catalogue, which is the real reason to own one. Runs on AA cells, which for a 20-year-old camera is a meaningful advantage over its contemporaries.
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References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.
1. Price history
- #1.1 · Grade buckets
-
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set:
mint,excellent,good,fair,poor, andunknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping. - #1.2 · Missing days
- A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
- #1.3 · Color encoding
- Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
- #1.4 · Shipping
- Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
- #1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
- A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.