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On Waiting Until The 20th
Over the last few weeks, websites (both with and without Pentax NDA agreements) have been speculating, dishing gossip, and spreading information about a certain upcoming camera model to be formally...
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Pentax K-7: The Complete Specs
For posterity, let's remember that in April and May of 2009 these specifications were under considerable speculation and were at one point leaked amid controversy. But now, here they are, all quiet and...
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Pentax K-7: The Best of the New Features and Facts
My favorite line from the Pentax K-7 literature is this self-deprecating phrase: "Despite all these features, the K-7 is one of the most compact and functional photo enthusiast level models in the...
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Pentax K-7: Hands-On Preview
Note: This is just one of the many introductory reviews you can read about the K-7, with others notably by Yvon Bourque, Mark Dimalanta, Dan Havlik, Mat Gallagher (with video), Jack Howard of Adorama,...
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K-7 Now Arriving in the U.S. with Bounce Back Card
Thanks to the astute people at Pentax Forums, Pentax USA president Ned Bunnell has been prompted confirmed that the Pentax K-7 is now in the U.S. and arriving at retailers to fulfill the first...
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Imaging-Resource's Comparometer™ And The Pentax K-7
Although I wasn't bowled over by their K-7 Preview (which did appreciate the camera, mind you, just not in the most reasoned explanations), I'm more appreciative of these K-7 chart test results from...
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K-7: Changing The 11 Focusing Area Point Positions
There was some concern when the K-7 was first announced that quickly changing the autofocus point (11-points, 9 cross) would be a hassle because the new control pad on the back of the camera was tied...
View ArticlePentax K-7 Firmware Update 1.01: Selective Point Fix
Well, the cat's out of the bag! Pentax has released a fix for one of their newest cameras, the K-7 DSLR, within the same month of its US release. And as speculated, the first firmware update for the...
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Drew Barrymore: Time Out NYC Cover
This week's cover of Time Out New York / Issue 727 (Sep 3–9, 2009) features Drew Barrymore and a Pentax K1000 SE, as a part of Time Out's NYC in Pictures series for their Photo Issue. For her part in...
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Red. White. Blue. Black. Take your pic with the new Pentax K-x
K-x Kit 1: $649.95 MSRP for the single lens kit (w. 18-55mm DA L "light" zoom lens)K-x Kit 2: $749.95 MSRP for the twin lens kit (w. 18-55mm and 50-200mm DA L "light" zoom lenses)K-x Kit 3: $849.95...
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A First Look At The K-x in NYC
Pentax's Special Launch in New York(For a quick introduction to the K-x, see my previous post "Red. White. Blue. Black. Take Your Pic With the New K-x.")About a month ago, I received a very nice "X...
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Mixed Reaction to Japanese K-x Custom Colors Is Still Success
Generally, people are impressed by Pentax bending the status quo by offering bold colors for the K-x. It's good buzz. Even though no one seems to agree on which option to choose, I think the consensus...
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Pentax K-7 Designer's Notes: Toshihiro Hamamura, Development Dept. Product...
Here is the first of the "designer's notes" from Pentax's team that built the K-7. These notes come from Pentax Japan and are reproduced here as translated by Pentax. It's interesting that among the...
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Pentax K-7 Designer's Notes: Takeharu Shin, Development Dept. User Interface...
Here is the second of the "designer's notes" from Pentax's team that built the K-7. These notes come from Pentax Japan and are reproduced here as translated by Pentax (I've touched it up a bit where...
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World Pentax Day and SyncSnap
PentaxForums have organized another World Pentax Day for Saturday Oct. 10th. If you have a Pentax camera, get out there and take some pictures to share. Then within the next 2 weeks, submit your photos...
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From World Pentax Day, Oct. 10, 2009
"Brooklyn Heights Vintage Bike"K20D, DA 18-55mm II @ 28mm, f4, 1/80, ISO 400Link: All Photos For World Pentax Day, Oct 10th, 2009
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Pentax 645D Fever
Pentax Japan has started running a teaser (pictured above, link here), and there appear to be some rumors and unofficial materials floating around about a KM-2 (12.4MP), some upcoming lenses (DA*10-16...
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K-7 Limited Edition in Silver, Available March 1st, 2010
It seems that like the Cliff Swallows returning to 6,000 miles Capistrano each year, Pentax loves to return to its metallic finishes. Pentax Japan is prepping 1,000 limited edition K-7's in Silver...
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Imaging Resource Interviews Pentax USA President Ned Bunnell
"If you take a look at some of our new offerings, whether it's the Kx in four different colors, or some of our new compacts such as i10 or H90, one of our beliefs is we can focus on the advanced...
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Apple Raw Support Updates for K-7 and K-x
About time! Get the update 3.1 For Digital Camera Raw Compatibility here (sorry, Mac OS 10.5.8 and 10.6 only!). Not just for Aperture, it will make iPhoto and Preview App play nice with your PEFs. But...
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645D Announced!
Links: via DPReview, and AkihabaraNews, from the Pentax Press Release at Pentax Japan's Annoucement page.40 Megapixels, Medium FormatUnder $10,000 USISO 100-16004x3 Aspect RatioDust Reduction &...
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645D Japanese First-Hand Looks
Edit: no Shake Reduction, just Dust Reduction, so I removed any mention to avoid any further erroneous misconceptions. Thanks to the commenters who pointed this out. Okay, I'm excited about the Pentax...
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World Pentax Day, Aug. 15th, 2010 Recap
The galleries of submitted photos this time around are looking really good! Thanks to Pentax Forums for their great enthusiasm for these projects. Visit them here:...
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OK1000 Pentax Blog
This blog has been on a long hiatus after I began new projects (since summer 2009) and after reluctantly coming to terms with the obvious I'm going to close the book and let the info here live in...
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