Pentax K10D

10.20 Megapixels   3x optical zoom   2.5 inch LCD

The Pentax K10D is base approximately an APS-C sized CCD imager by means of an effectual resolution of 10.2 megapixels. It use a 22-bit Analog-to-digital converter (production is 8-bit JPEG or 12-bit RAW), and a novel dispensation engine dub "PRIME" (Pentax Real IMage Engine). This is joined with a Pentax KAF lens rise that's well-matched with an imposing array of K-, KA-, KAF- and KAF2 lenses, as well as screw-mount / 645-system / 67-system lenses by means of an adapter. Pentax also notes that the camera body is designed to be compatible with new "supersonic motor-driven" AF lenses which are at present in growth. The K10D has a dust-proof, weather opposed to body by means of a stainless steel chassis and some 72 seals that let the camera to be second-hand in dirty and/or wet environment. The sensor sits on a free-floating electromagnetically forbidden platter that can go horizontally, vertically, and even rotationally.

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As with more than a few additional manufacturers (pioneer by Olympus, and also counting Canon and Sony), Pentax has ready the K10D to brawl a common difficulty of digital SLRs: dust. First, they've working a vapor-deposited "Super defend" fluorine mix coating to protect next to stains and repel powder. Second, good manners of the tremble Reduction device, the K10D can vibrate the antenna at high pace to shake any residual dust off. An adhesive strip located at the base of the mechanism capture the dust.

The K10D has a 2.5" LCD show as well as a 140-degree horizontal or perpendicular appearance angle. The viewfinder is a pentagrams TTL optical plan with 95% field of view, 0.95 x magnifications, diopter change from -2.5m-1 to +1.5m-1, and a Natural-Bright-Matte II focus screen. The K10D autofocus's with Pentad's SAFOX VIII phase corresponding scheme with 11 autofocus points, while auto contact metering choices are 16-segment multi, center-weighted, and spot. Close speeds from 30 to 1/4,000 second are likely, and there's also a bulb form The shutter mechanism is rated for 100,000 releases. ISO compassion varies from a smallest amount of 100 to 1,600 equal, and as well as the customary Program, Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority plus metered Manual contact modes, the K10D offers two strange options.

The Pentax K10D offer automatic or preset white equilibrium with six options (day, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, glowing, Flash), plus a physical white equilibrium mode. A built-in five-mode popup flash has a direct number of 15.6 (ISO 200/m) and cover up to a 28mm (35mm equivalent) point of view of view, and there's a hot shoe for rising an external flash. Flash sync pace is 1/180 second. There's also a three-frames-per-second burst mode which can imprison up to 12 RAW frames, or a limitless number of JPEG frame. Other skin include a number of digital sift modes, a two or 12-second personality timer, and a zero or three-second distant control mode.

Images are store on safe Digital cards, and the Pentax K10D is well-matched with the new SDHC (Secure Digital High ability) standard, which extend the utmost flash card ability to a hypothetical 32GB, with continued transfer rates of up to six megabytes per second. In adding to JPEG density, the K10D can store imagery in RAW format -- either in pent ax's proprietary PEF format, or Adobe's DNG arrangement. Connectivity includes USB 2.0 High pace data, and NTSC / PAL video relations, and power comes good manners of a proprietary D-LI50 Lithium Ion rechargeable series.

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