Category: Pentax K3D

  • New Pentax K SLR coming (K7D?)

    I leave the keyboard for a couple of days and here is a flurry of people giving us information about the possible new Pentax SLR photo camera. The most obvious point was the appearance of an ad for it. And a German user informed us that the name should be Pentax K7D. This would be…

  • New Pentax: Weirder and weirder

    Things are getting more and more difficult to understand in the rumour coming from Shanghai about the possible new Pentax SLR. After a first blurry image, we now get a photo which shows a group of Pentax SLR photo cameras and the one on the left cannot be identified as one of the existing products.…

  • New blurry Pentax SLR is seen

    We know from multiple sources that Pentax is preparing a new digital SLR photo camera that could be bringing a number of surprises including a significant change in the body form. Rice High has actually found on a Chinese forum a blurry image that would be showing part of a new Pentax SLR photo camera.…

  • Pentax joins megapixel truce

    We had seen that Olympus thought stopping the race for pixels taking 12 mega-pixels as the maximum really needed by most photographers. But they had satyed more or less isolated… up to now. FotoMagazin, German monthly photo magazine, tells us the news in its lastest (April) issue: Pentax joins Olympus in the non-race. After Nikon…

  • Pentax next moves

    Were you waiting for news from Pentax, maybe in the shape of a Pentax K30D? We will have to wait together. This is DC.Watch.Impress who was able to interview Taku Sendai, Product planning manager at Hoya (Pentax mother company). First of all, we get the confirmation that the 645 range of large format cameras will…

  • Pentax drops its prices

    In the midst of price hikes all around the world, here is Pentax which takes a radically different course and announces price drops on Pentax K20D, Pentax K200D and Pentax K2000/K-m. Decidedly, at least one new model is coming soon! Source: Photography Bay.

  • Cameras delayed for fear of recession

    Crisis, recession, deflation, financial crush, layoffs are all words that we hear about on a daily basis. Whatever you feel/think about them, there is a reality: the consumers are buying less. This is as true for photo hardware and software as for the other markets (maybe it’s worse for cars…) Now, this has a clear…

  • Pentax K30D, re-evaluation from Samsung

    About the Pentax K30D, I obviously missed and important news-bit which was published last October by WhatDigitalCamera. Thanks for helping me correct myself. This article that collects elements of an interview of Young-Bae Kim, Samsung’s Director of DSLR business, brings us informations all the more important that we remember that (and this is confirmed again)…

  • Pentax K3D spotted in the wild [fun]

    Finally, that is Kees de Haan who will have spotted the very first Pentax K3D in the wild. He even took a snapshot of it (using his faithful Pentax K20D, of course). But, further than the obvious pun, I start to think that many people (on the Internet) are speaking of the future Full Frame…