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If you're shooting with the tiny Pentax Q10 mirrorless camera, you'll want to install a new firmware update released by the company yesterday, as it will likely bring a noticeable improvement in your photos.
That's because the new update, firmware version 1.01, offers improved autofocus performance. Faster focusing means you're less likely...
If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information could...
If you're shooting with a Pentax interchangeable-lens camera made in the last few years, there's a good chance the company has released new firmware for you, among a raft of updates today.
The new firmware covers no less than five different K-mount digital SLRs, as well as the K-01 compact system camera. In all cases, there's only one change...
There are a lot of rugged, weather-sealed digital cameras to choose from these days, but to date they've pretty-much all shared an Achilles heel. To charge them, you've had to open the camera up, adding a little wear and tear to the weather-sealing and perhaps introducing some dirt or debris in the process. The Pentax WG-3 GPS is, we believe,...
Just-released firmware from Pentax today adds a new feature to its flagship APS-C DSLR, the Pentax K-5 II, as well as its low-pass filter free sibling the K-5 IIs.
Available immediately from the Pentax global website, the Pentax K-5 II v1.01 firmware update enables contrast adjustment for the rear-panel LCD monitor, allowing photographers to...
Hot on the heels of the Pentax MX-1 announcement, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with John Carlson, senior marketing manager at Pentax Ricoh Imaging to discuss the thinking behind the company's first enthusiast compact, why its latest-generation image...
If you could ask your favorite camera company any question you wanted, what would it be?
We landed today in Las Vegas, Nevada, for what's shaping up to be a very interesting 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Things are heating up in the enthusiast compact camera market, hybrid phase detect autofocus makes a return to fixed-lens cameras,...
Pentax's first fixed-lens enthusiast model.
Until now, there's been a clear differentiation in Pentax's camera lineup. Between its various mirrorless, SLR, and medium-format models, the company provides quite a few options for experienced shooters and those looking for room to grow. Its fixed-lens models, meanwhile, are aimed at consumers...
Last September, Pentax announced no less than five new optics that together cover every single current lens mount in its lineup, but of these one was particularly eyecatching. The HD PENTAX D FA 645 Macro 90mm F2.8 ED AW SR lens is extremely unusual by medium format lens standards, because it includes image stabilization. (And the image...
When we reviewed the 40-megapixel, medium-format Pentax 645D digital SLR-style camera last year, we came away mighty impressed. Sure, it's hefty, but its images capture spectacular detail, and by medium-format camera standards it has good ergonomics to boot. It's even weather-sealed and coldproof for outdoor shooting, making it a great option...
Desktop and notebook computers have improved in a lot of ways over the last decade: processors have gotten faster, storage capacities have soared, and so has the amount of memory. In one respect, though, there's been surprisingly little development for quite a long time. Although display resolutions have increased, they've climbed more slowly...
Among digital SLRs, there are two kinds of good. There's the good that makes you think it's time to trade your old SLR in for a newer model, and there's the good that has you seriously considering selling your existing lenses and accessories, and jumping ship to a different lens mount.
On paper, at least, the Pentax K-30 manages the latter....
New firmware today from Pentax Ricoh Imaging improves two of the company's camera models--the Pentax K-30 digital SLR, and the Pentax Q compact system camera.
The Pentax K-30 v1.01 firmware update, says the company, brings improved performance for contrast detection autofocus in live view shooting. It also improves overall stability and performance of the camera, although the...
Pentax released the 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 ED AL [IF] DC SMC DA WR in November of 2010 as a companion lens for the then K-5 and now K-5 II body: offering water resistance (the new "WR" monicker), a new DC ("direct current") motor and a longer reach than its previous kit lens, we've put this lens through its paces in our test...
On its Japanese-language website, Pentax Ricoh Imaging has today announced an adjustment to its planned delivery date for the tiny Pentax Q10 compact system camera. Initially slated for availability from mid-October 2012, the Q10 will now ship from October 26th in the Japanese market.
Pentax's statement goes on...
New firmware just released for the Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera brings improvements in a number of areas, says its manufacturer.
According to Pentax, the K-01 v1.01 firmware update improves performance of its contrast-detection autofocus system. It also improves support for various Secure Digital flash cards, both SDHC and SDXC types. (The company doesn't identify any specific...
New York photo specialty store Foto Care recently went poking around its basement and dug up the following camera treasures.
Recognize any of these models? The Steam Punk-style tubular device is known as "Baby Bertha," and was primarily used for sports photography in the 1940s. It has preset focal...
A new release of Paris, France-based DxO Labs' flagship Optics Pro image processing application today offers something for pros and consumers alike, with support for a variety of new camera bodies and body / lens pairings.
The newly supported cameras in DxO Optics Pro v7.5.5 include the Canon EOS-1D X, Nikon D600...
One of our favorite people in the photo industry, Pentax U.S. president Ned Bunnell retired last week. While Ned will certainly be missed at Pentax, it was hard to miss this giant Pentax camera cake at his retirement party at Pentax's offices.
Prior to Pentax, Ned worked at Canon, Polaroid, Adobe, and Agfa. He's...
Now that large, high-resolution screens are commonplace, camera interfaces have come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years. The same can't really be said for the interfaces on external flash strobes, though. Even on high-end strobes with an LCD panel, the interface typically features a few soft buttons whose...
