Archive for October, 2011

30
Oct

Attack and get a Pentak K-7

In the world market, cameras make big hits in the graph and bar of the selling inventories. The camera with a brand name Pentak K-7 is one of the very good cameras invented.
Pentax’s cameras have also catered well for this market in the shape of the competitively-priced K20D, a very likeable, solid upgrade to the K10D. Both cameras offered robust semi-pro build quality and a fairly advanced degree of environmental sealing, combined with a good level of customizability and well worked-out handling. But it’s now been over two-and-a-half years since the K10D appeared and, as it tends to, the market has moved on. The K20D’s live view system was not exactly class leading, and the camera was starting to look a little long-in-the-tooth when compared to the video-shooting Canons and Nikons that have started to appear, with their VGA screens and polished interfaces.
It has the following features:

* 720p/1536 x 1024 HD video recording
* Smaller magnesium/steel alloy body
* Revised viewfinder (less magnified but with greater coverage)
* Updated sensor with four-channel readout
* 3.0″ VGA (920,000 dot) LCD
* New shutter mechanism with 1/8000th shutter speed
* Faster continuous shooting (up to 5.2 fps)
* 77 segment exposure metering sensor
* Revised autofocus algorithms
* AF illumination lamp
* New dust removal system
* HDMI output