Digital SLR Camera PentaxThe Pentax K20D is Pentax’s latest midpriced lens-interchangeable digital SLR based on the successful K10D body with a 14.6 megapixel 23.4 mm x 15.6 mm CMOS sensor, upgraded from the 10.2 megapixel sensor in the K10D, that was newly developed to take advantage of Pentax interchangeable lenses by detecting diagonal light […]

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Digital SLR Camera PentaxAs dpreview.com/ says: “K10D is Pentax’s first foray 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 […]

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The Pentax Optio E40 is meant to be an inexpensive (between $100 and $150), entry-level, compact point-and-shoot digital camera, a follow-up to the Pentax Optio E30. It features faced detection/recognition, 8.1 megapixels, “digital” shake reduction to combat the physical problem of camera movement causing blur, 3x optical zoom, many auto modes, and the camera […]

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Pentax“Underwater images came out sharp and satisfying in Auto or Program picture mode, with good color balance, but the dedicated underwater mode simply adds a blue appearance to the image and otherwise acts as Program mode. I found the color to be too blue in this mode, and much preferred the normal color balance underwater […]

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PentaxVnunet has a review of the Pentax Optio A30 and writes, “with higher ISO settings image noise is often an issue and certainly here there’s plenty of that in all but the brightest of light. The reason for much of this disappointing performance is the 10-megapixel sensor. While that many dots may sound alluring, the […]

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PentaxIT Reviews has a review of the Pentax Optio A30 and writes, “The speed of operation has also been quickened and the overall detail and colour tones, brightness and contrast of the final images are well above average. Having an extra Super Macro setting means you can now get as close as 2.3 inches from […]

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Hoya Pentax
We’d say “another one bites the dust,” only that in the case of multi-billion dollar company takeovers, the metaphorical particulate is invariably of the gold form. Yeah, the latest mega-corp takeover is here, as Pentax has been taken over by Japanese company, Hoya.
The deal was overshadowed by some rough internal wrangling in Pentax, […]

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PentaxBlogCritics has a review of the Pentax K100D and writes, “I was pleasantly surprised by the K100D. The camera is a perfect entry into the DSLR market, and one that can be easily built on. The use of the KA-Mount lenses is a good idea, these can be
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