Category Archives: Pentax

Pentax K-5, K-r and EVIL cameras at Photokina

By PR admin | Published: August 5, 2010

A rather bizarre rumor showed up on dpreview yesterday – somebody who claims to work for Pentax Spain as a “sales promoter”: Pentax K-5 will be a model above K-7. Pentax K-r will use both a lithium battery and standard AAs and will cost 699€. Pentax EVIL will likely be APSC. The poster claims to work for […]

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Pentax to release a mirrorless camera according to… CitiGroup

By PR admin | Published: August 3, 2010

On page 2 of this CitiGroup report about Hoya (the owner of Pentax), you will see the following sentence: “Hoya plans to release a mirrorless camera under Pentax brand that is distinct from models already on the market.” No further information is provided. It is really weird that a financial corporation like CitiGroup would report rumors […]

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Hoya Corp. filed a patent for a water-resistant, interchangeable lens camera

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2010

Hoya filed a patent back in 2007 of what appears to be a water-resistant interchangeable lens camera: The full patent 7756405 can be found here: “Field of the invention: The present invention relates to an interchangeable lens which is selectively mountable to a packing-compatible camera body and a packing-incompatible camera body, and also relates to a camera system which […]

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Interesting links from the past week

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

What you may have missed  this week: Digital Holga prototype. Why not? Did you notice this? The uneventful announcement of the Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR point and shoot camera brought us a new Hybrid Auto Focus System – first in the world: “Enhanced with built-in phase detection pixels, Super CCD EXR is the first sensor in the […]

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Rumor: Pentax K-5, Super K-7 to be released for Photokina

By PR admin | Published: July 19, 2010

The latest rumors are that Pentax is preparing to announce two new DLSR bodies for Photokina. The Pentax K-5 will fit between the current K-x and K-7 models and the “Super K-7” model will be a higher version of the K-7 DSLR.

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More on the “Pentax 645D coming to Europe” news

By PR admin | Published: July 14, 2010

Previous reports indicated that the price of the Pentax 645D in Europe will be 10,000 EUR. Yesterday Quesabesde attended a hands-on presentation in Spain and reported that the price may actually be lower: 8,000 EUR the body and a 10,000 EUR for a kit with the new Pentax FA 55mm f2.8 lens. Delivery is currently estimated for […]

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Some Pentax rumors

By PR admin | Published: July 8, 2010

A rather controversial post, that was deleted for unknown reasons from the PentaxForum: “No FF plans until 2012 as 645D is filling this, Pentax may review this decision Mid – 2011. Three new models will be announced at Photokina. 1. K7 Super – a. Upgraded AF sensor 2. manual video with 720p60. 3. Same 14mp […]

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