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Pentax K20D Hot Pixels Problem Confirmed
2008-06-03 09:45:00 According to Imaging Resource, Pentax has confirmed the “hot pixel” problem in Pentax K20D DSLR and assured that the firmware update to solve this issue is on the way: Pentax USA has confirmed the issue, themselves noting that it only seems to occur when the 2-second self-timer is employed. They said that the engineering team was ... More About: Problem , Pixels
Pentax Left Mobile Printers Market
2008-06-03 09:39:00 The Brother Group signed the deal to acquire Pentax Mobile Solutions Division (Golden, Colorado) from Hoya Group. Two Pentax product lines affected: Pocket-Jet ultra-portable printers and Pentax DSmobile 600 scanner. In the last fiscal year both product lines have generated $14 million. More About: News , Market , Left
No More Firmware Updates For K10D
2008-05-29 08:24:00 DPReview forums user rArWebWorks has quoted the words of unnamed service manager at the Golden, Colorado service center, who said that there won’t be any further firmware upgrades for Pentax K10D DSLR. Earlier, Pentax Europe product manager Wolfgang Baus has confirmed ‘no more firmware updates for K10D’ policy to the popular German Pentax community DigitalFotoNetz. More in ... More About: News , Rumors , Firmware , Updates
Pentax Wants You to Gear Up
2008-05-27 09:57:00 Pentax has launched new rebate program. You can save up to $375 on the set of Pentax latest DSLR gear: $100 on Pentax K200D and K20D bodies $100 on PENTAX DA 16-45mm F4.0 ED/AL lens $100 on PENTAX DA*50-135mm F2.8 ED (IF) SDM lens $100 smc PENTAX DA*16-50mm F2.8 ED AL(IF) SDM lens $50 on AF-360FGZ flash $50 on AF-540FGZ flash $25 ... More About: News , Gear , Pentax
Pentax Optio W60 announced
2008-05-23 08:34:00 Pentax Imaging has announced a major update to its popular waterproof digicam series - Pentax Optio W60. The most noticeable improvements in comparison with the previous models are: 5x zoom lens with the real 28mm wide angle (28-140mm). A Digital Wide function merges two shots into one image for ultra-wide-angle image capture (equivalent to a focal ... More About: News , Pentax
Sigma: new lenses availability
2008-05-22 11:41:00 According to DPReview, Sigma has announced the availability date for K-mount versions of its new lenses. 70-200mm f/2.8 APO EX DG and 50-150mm f/2.8 APO EX DG will hit the shelves at the beginning of August, 2008. Both lenses have constant F/2.8 aperture, 100cm closest focusing distance and nine diaphragm blades. Nothing new here but what ... More About: News , Lenses , Availability
Chasseur D’images has tested 20 Pentax lenses
2008-05-20 13:08:00 Chasseur D’images, French photography magazine that is very popular in Europe, has tested two latest Pentax DSLRs and 20 (yep, twenty) lenses mounted on the Pentax K20D. Lots of optics tested here: from FA* 27-70/2.8, FA*85/1.4 to all Limiteds, DA*, the new DA17-70 SDM etc… Most lenses are quite good and a couple numbers simply excellent !! Talking about recent lenses: DA 17-70 SDM: it is good, vingettes a lot at 17 but it very nice upgrade over the kit lens. They say there’s no focus touch up (!! to be confirmed) but there’s indeed weather sealing. They do not say if it is SDM-only but I think so. DA*200/2.8: excellent !! DA*300/4: excellent !! DA35/2.8 macro: excellent ! DA* 50-135 and DA* 16-50/2.8: centering defects but otherwise very good. Great thanks to Thibouille for sharing such a good news. For those who can’t read French or live outside of Europe there is DA 35mm f/2.8 Macro Limited review from the DigitalCameraReview: In short, the new 3... More About: Lenses , Images , Tested
Patriot Aigo MZ-D clone
2008-05-14 16:09:00 Chinese Engadget (quite trustworthy resource) has reported the rumors that Chinese manufacturer Patriot Aigo in cooperation with Carl Zeiss planning to roll out first China DSLR with Leica-M mount. What’s most interesting is that Engadget has illustrated this rumor with something looking just like Pentax MZ-D 2001 6Mp full-frame DSLR prototype with Patriot Aigo logo ... More About: Rumors , Clone
Hoya Pentax + Microsoft
2008-05-14 10:27:00 Hoya Pentax Imaging Systems Division and Microsoft Corporation have signed the cross-licencing deal today. The agreement covers digital cameras made by PENTAX as well as a broad range of other consumer products each company manufactures and sells. Ko Torigoe of Hoya Pentax said that ?We believe that this contract will further solidify the alliance between ... More About: News , Rumors
DA Limited on Film
2008-05-05 07:59:00 Have you ever wonder how Pentax DA Limited lenses working on the film SLR cameras? Boris Liberman has collected a bunch of photos made with three DA Limited lenses mounted on the 35mm film SLR. Pentax DA 21mm Limited shows a strong vignetting at every apperture up to F/22 while DA 40mm Limited and DA 70mm ... More About: Film , Samples , Lenses
Pentax K200D Latest Reviews
2008-04-30 09:37:00 The new Pentax entry level DSLR K200D got a lot of attention last month. Most of the popular consumer electronics and photo equipment reviewers have put their curious hands on it. And most of them have been pretty excited. CNET has rated Pentax K200D 7.7 out of 10 which is “Very Good” in their classification: Pentax’s K200D ... More About: Reviews
DxO Optics Pro Now Supports Samsung GX-20
2008-04-29 07:33:00 DxO has updated Optics Pro v5 popular RAW manipulation software. Among the loads of Nikon lenses in the What’s New list there are Samsung GX-20 14.6 megapixel DSLR and some glass: Samsung GX20 Samsung 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 (and Tamron branded analogue too) Samsung GX20 Samsung D-XENON 12-24mm More About: Software , News
Pentax K20D vs Sony A350
2008-04-29 07:07:00 AnandTech has tested Pentax K20D high ISO performance and resolution against Sony A350. The K20D noise is well controlled through ISO 3200. Noise at ISO 6400 is comparable to the Sony A350 at ISO 3200 K20D is “traditionally” softer at the lower ISO settings but shows much cleaner images at ISO 1600 and 3200. Also, white balance ... More About: Reviews
Samsung Goes Full Frame
2008-04-20 08:35:00 UK’s one of the most trusted photo magazine Amateur Photographer has raised the curtain on Samsung ’s plans to join Canon and Nikon on the full frame battleground. Samsung has hinted at plans to develop a full-frame CMOS imaging sensor for use in a ‘professional’ standard digital SLR. So far, however, the sensor has only reached the design ... More About: News , Full , Frame
First DA 35mm Macro Limited Samples
2008-03-31 06:19:00 Pentax K10D + Pentax DA 35mm F2.8 macro Limited . 100% crop of this image (1.6Mb) Weblog Insomnia have published a load of full rez samples of soon to be available Pentax DA 35mm F2.8 Limited macro lens mounted on the Pentax K10D. 1, 2, 3, 4. Another two of the new lenses - DA 55-300 F4-5.8 ED ... More About: News , Samples , Lenses , Macro
Pentax at PIE 2008
2008-03-26 07:46:00 Akihabara News and Impress Watch have published the photo reports from the Pentax booth at the Photo Imaging Expo 2008 which was held in Tokyo Big Sight complex in Japan last weekend. The key products were, of cause, latest K20D and K200D DSLRs. Upcoming DA lenses (highly anticipated DA 17-70 F4, DA 60-250 F4 and ... More About: Reviews
Adobe Lightroom 1.4 and ACR 4.4 supports K20D and K200D
2008-03-17 06:30:00 Adobe has posted updates for its Lightroom 1.4 and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) 4.4 RAW manipulation software. Now both packages are support Pentax newest K20D and K200D DSLRs’ RAW files as well as RAWs from the recent cameras from Nikon, Canon and Sony. Here you can download update for Mac or Windows version of Adobe ... More About: Software , News , Adobe
John Carlson talks about K20D, 645D and the latest Pentax announcements
2008-03-13 12:51:00 LetsGoDigital’s Ilse Jurriën has interviewed Jon Carlson - Pentax Imaging USA product manager and the chief K20D evangelist - at PMA. He has told about Pentax and Samsung cooperation background, plans on future lenses and why the digital medium format development was suspended. But the most of attention was given to the Pentax flagship DSLR. Thanks ... More About: News , Lenses , John
Pentax 645D development suspended
2008-03-11 09:23:00 According to Impress Watch Pentax has suspended the development the digital era version of its medium format camera - 645 Digital to concentrate on the APS-C digital SLR cameras development. Also, these rumors could be interpreted as the Pentax’s intention to roll out full frame DSLR in the future. Source in Japanese (auto translation) More About: Rumors , Development
Pentax K20D and K200D are official
2008-01-24 07:37:00 Pentax Imaging Co. have officially announced two new DSLRs: 14.6 megapixel CMOS Pentax K20D and 10.2 megapixel CCD Pentax K200D. While Pentax K20D appeared to be quite disappointing with its old autofocus and metering systems, could be better LCD and 12-bit RAWs, Pentax K200D is the revolution in this generation of k-mount DSLR cameras. Pentax took ... More About: News , Pentax , Official
Pentax K20D specs
2008-01-23 09:21:00 It’s still two days before Pentax K20D should go official but the full specs of the new camera are already available on the various websites. Most of them are quite respectfull. E.g. Russian Pentax dealer Pentar Corp. have published full specs today (these guys were in Dubai too): 14.6 effective (15.07 total) megapixel (4672 ? ... More About: News , Rumors , Specs
Samsung GX20 unveiled
2008-01-10 07:34:00 Today two Norvegian websites (Akam.no and Aronsen.no) have reported the announcement of the all new Samsung GX20 DSLR. However, still no official press-release on the Samsung Techwin website. So what and when we should to expect? Brand new 14.6 megapixel CMOS sensor with LiveView feature. The rumors says that this sensor is designed by Pentax, but ... More About: News , Rumors
Voigtlander Ultron and Nokton lenses for Pentax
2007-11-04 14:18:00 Cosina has announced two manual focus prime K-mount lenses under the Voigtländer brand. Voigtlander Ultron 40mm F2 SLII pancake-style lens is half stop faster than popular Penta x DA 40mm pancake but ten millimeters bigger and a little heavier. It consists of six elements in five groups including double-sided aspherical elements and high-refraction glass. Voigtlander Nokton 58mm ... More About: News , Lenses
Pentax Europe recalling K10D?s plug cords
2007-10-23 13:35:00 Pentax UK has informed the Europe an Pentax customers that some of the 3-pin plug cords supplied with Pentax K10D and some of the Optio digicams after 17th November ‘06 may reveal a manufacturing defect. To identify the cable in question hold the cable by the end with the 3-pins. Turn the pins to face away from ... More About: News , Pentax , Plug , Penta
Pentax Optio A40 and V10 announced
2007-10-04 14:41:00 This week Penta x has announced the other two (as usual) point and shoot cameras: A40 - the fourth generation of Pentax’s high-end compact digicam and V10 which is starting whole new series of ultra compact point and shoots. Pentax Optio A40 got the new 12 megapixel 1/1.7″ sensor, probably the same as in Canon G9 and ... More About: News , Anno
Pentax lens roadmap updated
2007-10-04 07:55:00 Pentax has updated their lens roadmap recently. Nothing particular new except for cloned Tamron which was announced this Monday. But there is a good news and a bad news. The good is that DFA 645 55mm F2.8 is still there so the 645D project is alive. The bad is that DA* 60-250mm F4 is no ... More About: News , Lenses , Lens , Pentax , Penta
Pentax DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 ED AL IF announced
2007-10-02 06:02:00 Yesterday several people at once have reported that the announcement of the new Penta x lens - DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 ultrazoom have appeared on the Pentrax Imaging website. But this announcement have disappeared in an hour or two just to appear again couple of hours later. So the Pentax DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 ED AL IF is ... More About: News , Lenses , Anno
This week?s reviews
2007-09-21 21:43:00 Steve at Steve’s Digicams has reviewed Pentax K100D Super - latest update for Pentax entry level DSLR line-up. Unfortunately Steve hasn’t got the new DA* lenses (most of the sample photos are made with DA 12-24mm F4) so the most important new feature that differs K100D Super from its predecessor - Supersonic Drive Motor lenses ... More About: Reviews , Samples , Lenses , Week
Last weeks? reviews
2007-09-13 18:25:00 Australian DPexpert has published a very short (no image quality tests or samples) review of Pentax K100D Super entry level DSLR. Overall verdict is “Highly recommended”. Their only dislikes are too loud mirror slaps and too high contrast and saturation level by default. Positive impressions: “The value-for-money of this camera makes the competition look either ... More About: Reviews , Lenses , Weeks
More cameras with Shake Reduction will follow
More articles from this author:2007-09-06 18:19:00 According to Business Wire, the dual-axis gyroscope that works as a part of Pentax Optio A30 Shake Reduction system is InvenSense IDG-1000. The same announcement also said that this device will be used in the future Pentax digital cameras. So, perhaps, we will see more Pentax digicams with Shake Reduction feature soon. InvenSense, the leading provider ... More About: News , Cameras 1, 2, 3 |
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