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DxO update adds support for Canon, Pentax cameras

DxO's logo. Click here to visit the DxO Labs website!Only three weeks after the last update shipped, Paris, France-based DxO Labs has released Optics Pro v7.2.3, keeping up the fast development pace of its flagship image processing application.

According to the official release notes, DxO Optics Pro 7.2.3 fixes the most common crashes on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, as well as some other minor issues on the Mac. It also...

Two cameras, two directors, two great examples of interchangeable-lens video

Pentax's logo. Click here to visit the Pentax website!Over the last few years, there's been something of a revolution in the interchangeable-lens camera world. Since the Nikon D90 introduced photographers to the concept of shooting video with a camera primarily designed for still imaging, almost the entire industry has taken the idea onboard, and it's now the rare interchangeable-lens camera indeed that doesn't offer some form of...

Pentax K-01 Still Life test shots posted!

Pentax's K-01 compact system camera. Copyright © 2012, The Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.We've just posted our Still Life ISO/NR series test shots from the bold new Pentax K-01 compact system camera, straight from the lab!

The controversial Pentax K-01 is based on a 16-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor similar to the one found in the excellent K-5 DSLR, and is compatible with almost every K-mount lens ever made. Other features include sensor-shift shake and dust...

Pentax’s latest cameras go on sale

Pentax's WG-2 GPS and WG-2 digital cameras. Photo provided by Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp. Click for our Pentax WG-2 GPS preview!If you've been waiting to get your hands on one of Pentax's new cameras for 2012, your wait might be over. The company has today announced the debut of two--or depending upon how you look at it, perhaps three--new models announced last month.

The Pentax K-01 is a boldy-designed mirrorless camera, styled by industrial designer Marc Newson. Bearing much of the DNA of the...

Time for an upgrade? Get a foot in the door for the latest hot new cameras!

2012 is shaping up to be quite a year for photographers. We're only seven weeks in, and we've already had over eighty camera announcements, quite a few of them major. Over the coming days and weeks, many of these cameras will be becoming available. If you want to be among the first to be shooting with the most interesting models, though, you'll likely need to preorder.

That's...

Score one for the rumor mill: Pentax launches K-mount mirrorless

Pentax's K-01 compact system camera. Photo provided by Pentax Ricoh Imaging Co. Ltd. Click to read our Pentax K-01 preview!For more than a year now, rumors have swirled, suggesting that Pentax was planning to launch not one, but two mirrorless camera products with differing lens mounts. Some pooh-poohed the idea, perhaps understandably, but today the believers are vindicated, with the launch of the Pentax K-01.

It's a bold move from Pentax, to be sure. Last summer, they showed a willingness to go...