k-rumors

And here it is the new Pentax NC-1 mirrorless system camera. It will come in different colors (Black, Silver and White) and three new lenses. Two lenses will be announced along the camera in May and a third lenses will be released 2-3 months after. It has a small 1/2,33″ sensor with 14 Megapixels. The [...]

Pentax released the new K-5 firmware: http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-5_s.html
Pentx K-5 review at EntincingTheLight.com.
Pentax 645D test at Fotopolis.
Hands-On with the Pentax K-r at p3newsreviews.
Pentax K-r review at digitalcamera-hq.

Pentax 645D lens roadmap (Source: DC.watch) K5 vs K7 at digitalcamaralens. A new K-5 review has been also posted at Cnet UK . And also ThePhoBlographer posted his complete Pentax K-5 Review. There is also a hands-on review video at Photoradar. And there is spanish review at Quesbesde. Pentax 645D Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III Comparison Digital SLR Review at [...]

PENTAX ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION SILVER K5 Golden, Colorado (February 7, 2011)…PENTAX Imaging Company has announced that the popular K-5 digital SLR will be available soon in Limited Edition Silver.  Available in the US in limited quantities this special-edition model of the PENTAX K-5 digital SLR camera will feature an exclusive design with an original exterior color [...]

There is a specific page at the Pentax Japan website that collects all discontinued Pentax cameras. Today the K-x and the K-7 have been added to the list! The life cycle for APS-C cameras is very short in particular for those two popular cameras! Bye bye K-x and K-7!

Photoscala reports that Hoya had a sales growth of 1.5% during the third fiscal quarter of 2010/11 (October to December 2010). Net income increased by 12% to 13.21 billion yen (about € 118 million) over the same quarter. The profit increase has been possible thanks to improvement by 6.9% in the “Life Care” business Hoya business [...]

Photorumors found a leak inside an unnamed asian website. Those are supposed to be the specs of the lens: built-in hood lens built-in filter holder weather proof some kind of a special coating/lens element aperture range: f/4 – f/32 12 lens elements in 8 groups minimum focusing distance will be less than 0.5m internal focus 96° angle of view 25mm in medium format is actually very wide [...]

Image of the K-5 sensor spots Pentax Japan announced that all users having a defect K-5 will receive free repair at our service center: ” We deeply regret that the first shipment of our PENTAX K-5 digital SLR camera included some products with a stained image sensor — a problem which we believe was caused during manufacturing [...]

The picture above shows the first design of a mirrorless digital camera made by Pentax in 1997!!! Photorumors reports that the first Pentax mirrorless camera could be the “NC-1″. We are wondering what the “N” and the “C” could stay for but that’s all Photorumors got. If the rumors we heard the last months are correct the [...]

The Pentax K5 Digital Camera Review (Steve Huff): “Pentax has done almost everything right with this camera.”

Pentax K-5 VS. Nikon D7000 VS. Canon EOS 7D: ISO COMPARISON (Neutralday).

Pentax K-r Overview (SLRclub).

K-7 Officially Discontinued (Pentax Japan)

Changes to V1.02: Compatible with SDXC memory card.*Transfer rate is not compatible with UHS speed class. Contents of will be also updated. Changes to V1.11: Compatible with SDXC memory card.*Transfer rate is not compatible with UHS speed class. Contents of will be also updated. Download the new K-x firmware: http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-x_s.html Download the new K-7 firmware: [...]

What a coincidence! First there was that statement on Dpreview: ” Pentax on mirrorless: ‘we never rule anything out “. The day after Photorumors posted a new mirrorless rumor: ” Pentax is currently working on two different cameras with interchangeable lenses. The first one will be a digital version of the Pentax Auto 110 wich is actually a tiny SLR type camera [...]

Probably in response of the K-5 sensor issue Pentax is about to release a new K-5 firmware. You can already download it at https://network.pentax.eu but you have to be a registered user. There are no firmware upgrade related documents so we really don’t know yet what is going to change with the new fw. UPDATE: New [...]

After weeks of reports about the Pentax K-5 issues Amazon Germany chosed to stop the K-5 sales.

P.S.: I had a 3 weeks long Christmas vacation. Now that I am back I will post new rumors and news soon

Pentax K5 Veyr detailed, very long but also very korean Review at SLRclub. Why “korean”? Because they are used to post articles as jpeg images! So google translation won’t work. There is also a new review at Colorfoto.de. That time with google translation ! Full test charts are available for download at Magnus.de. Pentax 645D Image test at Focus Numerique . A few [...]

Let’s start the Pentax news roundup with the tons of new K-5 news Canon cameras vs Pentax K5 at Guillermoluijk (via RiceHigh). At low ISO the K-5 has a higher dynamic range than the Canon 5D MarkII. Falk Lumo tested the K-5 shutter. Pentax K-5 review at Photoradar and Techradar. “Asian” K-5 reviews at ZOL.cn and Ganref. And finally a “french” [...]

There is an interesting Black Firday deal on Amazon: Pentax K-5 Body for $1,426.57 only (Click here)

After Zeiss also Voigtländer-Cosina announced that they will not make K-mount lenses anymore. That’s bad news! I liked the lenses a lot because of the very compact size and good build-quality. Here is the list of Lenses that will soon run out of Stock (with link to Amazon): – Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f/1.4 SL-II – Voigtlander Color [...]

Ned Bunnell dropped a line to The Online Photographer and keeps adding fire to the mirrorless and fullframe speculation: “I noticed a few reader comments suggesting you should have asked about our full frame and mirrorless plans. I hope your readers know that until a product is officially announced, there’s really not much that I or any [...]