Ahead of the 2012 Photokina show that opens in a few days, Pentax unveils a few new products, a duo of DSLRs based on the K-5, an updated travel lens for APS-C Digital SLRs, a new mirrorless camera and a fast telephoto lens for in Q mount with an adapter to help Pentax Q owners [...]
The new Pentax DA 18-270mm F3,5-6, 3 ED SDM is a versatile lens that will improve the 18-250mm one launched back in 2007. Designed for digital SLR cameras with an APS-C sensor (Kx, K-30, K5II …), it will find its place in frequent travelers camera bag. It is updated with the SDM ultrasonic autofocus motorisation [...]
I am not a big fan of the Pentax mirrorless camera system because of its ridiculously small sensor choice, 1/2.3″, just like any other compact camera… but I have to admit that the advantage of it is to allow their engineers to design extremely compact and light lenses, even fast ones like this telephoto today [...]
The tiny little Pentax Q mirrorless camera, today updated with the announcement of the Pentax Q10, can now use Pentax K mount lenses, originally designed for APS-C sensor DSLRs (K-30, K5II, Kx). And this is possible thanks to the lens adapter ring Pentax K to Pentax Q unveiled today by Pentax ahead of the 2012 Photokina that [...]
Aside the new weather resistant DSLR Pentax K-30, today, Pentax unveils an interesting lens : the smc PENTAX-DA 50mm F1.8, a lens designed for K-mount cameras, with APS-C sensors, either DSLRs or mirrorless cameras like the Pentax K-01. Its focal length will become an equivalent to a 85mm. Thanks to its wide aperture (f1.8) and [...]
Pentax unveiled the smc DA645 25mm F4AL[IF] SDM AW, a new wide-angle lens designed for the 645D, Pentax all-weather medium format camera launched one year ago. This new lens benefits from almost every technological know-how Pentax has when we talk about building fine lenses. Pentax smc DA645 25mm F4AL[IF] SDM AW lens bullet facts : 25mm medium [...]
Launching system cameras is great. Launching great mirrorless cameras like the Pentax K-01 announced yesterday is supergreat… but even better, adding new attractive lenses is what photographers really need from manufacturers to go for their cameras. Look at Sony whose NEX-5N or NEX-7 are among the best mirrorless cameras but what a poor lens line-up [...]
