Category Archives: Pentax

Pentax got a new 25mm f/4 wide angle lens for their medium format 645D camera

By PR admin | Published: November 21, 2010

TOP interviewed Ned Bunnell (President of Pentax USA) and here are the highlights: Pentax has no plans to discontinue the 31mm, 43mm and 77mm FA Limited lenses. Pentax will start shipping a new wide angle D-FA 645 25mm f/4 lens in early 2011 (for the medium format 645D camera). Apparently this lens was announced at Photokina, but Pentax forgot to tell […]

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Some Pentax rumors: new Pentax A* 135mm f/1.8 lens and more

By PR admin | Published: November 9, 2010

This picture of Pentax equipment found on flickr is showing a new Pentax A* 135mm f/1.8 lens. Here is a close-up of the lens: For comparison, this is how the old Pentax A* 135mm f/1.8 lens looks like (image source: eBay):

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LG makes a camera phone with a Pentax lens

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

After the Panasonic Lumix Phone and the news about Olympus making an offer to buy a cell phone company, LG today announced a new camera-phone that looks more like a camera than a phone. The new LG L-03C has: 12.1MP camera 3x zoom lens made by Pentax with f/3.6-5.5 Xenon flash 3-inch LCD High ISO of 3200 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/3G […]

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Few pictures from PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

I finally got some time to upload few images from PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010 that ended last week. Pentax Pentax had a big table (not really a booth) with all of their latest products, including the 645D. You can download a sample RAW file taken with the 645D here (DropBox is great for sharing large […]

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Pentax K-5 firmware update will be released soon

By PR admin | Published: November 5, 2010

Pentax is expecting to release new firmware update for the latest K-5 DSLR camera. The update will include: Increases the number of continuous shot at RAW and RAW+ mode (setting condition: RAW(PEF)/ISO100, increases the number of continuous shot from maximum approx. 8 frames to approx. 20 frames) Improved stability for general performance. Update: ok, I […]

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Pentax 645D now officially coming to the US

By PR admin | Published: October 12, 2010

The medium format Pentax 645D camera will now officially be coming to America (as previously reported). The Pentax 645D body  will cost $9,995.95 and the Pentax-D FA 645 55mm F2.8 lens will sell for $1,199.95. Both will start shipping in December of 2010. Only limited number of stores will be carrying this camera – see the full press release […]

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Pentax will not use Samsung’s NX mount

By PR admin | Published: October 2, 2010

In another post-Photokina interview, the Head of Marketing for Pentax Imaging Systems Division Mr. Eguchi Kazumichi, made some interesting comments: while Hoya will continue to evaluate the market opportunities of a mirrorless camera, they will not use the Samsung NX mount in the future. He even went a step further by saying that Samsung did not use any […]

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