Pentax has announced its new K-mount mirrorless interchangable lens camera, the PentaxK-01, which can mount just about every lens the company has ever made.
Proving that big zoomed compacts can still be pocketable creatures is Pentax’s new point’n'shooter, the Optio RZ18 which packs in a mighty 18x optical zoom lens, covering an impressively wide 25-450mm (equivalent) range.
With an eye-watering price tag that would leave you with just one quid change out of nine grand, the Pentax 645D camera is a super high end camera for pros – and the very, very well heeled.
With the big Photokina expo beginning to rev up in Germany today, some of the big guns are releasing details of their new products, and Pentax have taken the opportunity to tell us about their new K-5 dSLR.
Aimed at fumbling newbies, photographic Johnny-come-latelies, and tech-challenged dads who perhaps fancy taking to the streets with an attention-grabbing fire engine red camera around their necks is the new Pentax K-r DSLR camera.
Pentax is launching a limited-edition silver version of its Pentax K-7 digital SLR camera, serving up a delicious old school look sure to get traditionalists twitching towards their wallets.
The Pentax K-7 Limited Silver updates the existing K-7 body with a new silver and black finish backed by a reinforced “highly shock and scratch resistant” LCD glass cover, said to be tougher than what you’ll get on the standard K7.
To show off the HD video shooting abilities of their Pentax K-7 digital SLR cameras, Pentax commissioned two production companies to knock out a couple of entertaining short films.
Shot entirely at night in Denver, Colorado, the all-action Uncle Jack movie was created by film-maker Jamin Winans and Futuristic Films and features a mad clown, a crazed woman, magic pills, gunshots and lots of driving (sounds a bit like a night out in Brixton to us).
Pentax have released a firmware update for their affordable Pentax K-x DSLR camera which shuffles in a few minor tweaks and the odd feature-ette.
The firmware update to version 1.01 adds three effect shooting functions, lobs in Cross Processing function support to the green button and claims to improve the accuracy of the Battery Level Indicator.
Pentax is looking to grab itself a slice of the lucrative low-end dSLR market with the launch of its new budget-priced K-x camera.
Based on the K2000 body, the K-x notches up a respectable feature count, with its 12.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor packing sensor-shift Shake Reduction for stabilised image and video capture and a 11 point wide angle SAFOX VIII autofocus system for snappy focusing and tracking of moving subjects.
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