SRS Microsystems has a banner on their website for “UK first at SRS Pentax Open Day” on October 9th. The banner features a silhouette of a Pentax DSLR camera (most likely the K-3). This event is probably scheduled for the upcoming Pentax K-3 camera that is rumored to be announced on October 8th.
Digicame-info just published the first image of the upcoming Pentax K-3 DSLR camera. From the picture it appears that the K-3 will be an APS-C based camera (see rumored specifications). A dpreview member also mentioned few other new features in the K-3:
A new Pentax K-3 DSLR camera is rumored to be announced on October 8th in Japan (Monday evening, October 7th in North America). I am still not sure if the previously leaked specifications are correct. Coincidently, Nikon is also expected to announce their new D610 camera on the same date.
The not yet announced Pentax K-3 camera was listed at the official Japanese PPG (Pentax Photo Gallery) website. Those are the rumored Pentax K-3 specifications:
The above picture comes form the Chinese forum xitek and it looks like a Pentax DSLR camera with a full frame mirror box (I changed the brightness of the second image for a better view). For comparison, this is the APC-S sized mirror box of the Pentax K-5: What do you think – real or fake? […]
Few weeks ago I reported that Pentax is going to soon introduce several new DSLR cameras as early as this month. RiceHigh received some information that the 24MP Pentax K-3 full frame camera will be announced next week on March 27. In another post, RiceHigh reports about photographer Mike Svitek who has posted this on hig g+ […]
A German photography magazine is reporting about a possible Photokina appearance of a full frame DSLR camera from Pentax called K-3:
The website zol.com.cn has a listing for a Pentax K-3 DLSR camera with a 24MP APS-C sensor. No other details/specs were provided. This Chinese website has a good track record and has correctly predicted specifications of other upcoming cameras in the past. Rumors about a full frame Pentax DSLR has been circulating for a while, but […]
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