Photography news, before it happens

Here is another one:

This info comes from dslrmagazine (for English translation, click here). The bottom line:

• Pentax K-7 will be the top of the line DLSR
• it will be an APS-C camera
• it will be able to use medium format lenses (developed for the upcoming Pentax 645) with an adapter
• it will have a optical glass pentaprism (Hoya), upper LCD and dial to choose professional modes, with central lock
• no built-in flash
• it might incorporate the possibility of showing simultaneously (on the optical viewfinder) information about other functions, such as live histogram or even… Live-View and video with the mirror lockup (wow!).

Via: dpreview – the same thread on dpreview has some more K-7 specs (see first post). Another version of the Pentax K-7 specs can be found here.

A reader emailed me this picture (it is much easier now since the email is working 🙂 – the top LCD screen does not look like any of the existing models.

Here is another one:

Does this memory card door look too big for a SD type memory type? Will the new Pentax K-7 support CF memory cards? The leaked Pentax K-7 specs did not provide any details on the memory card (images form Pentax China).