Pentax

Pentax Ricoh Imaging UK has confirmed the launch of a new 16-million-pixel DSLR in the form of the Pentax K-30. The K-30 has the promise of speed and great photos, plus it's dust-and-weather sealed and ready for sub-freezing temperatures.

It’s always a bit strange to think of an entire company being bought up by another, but that’s just what’s happened with Pentax. The long established camera company will be bought up by Ricoh, with the deal expected to finalize in October.

The Pentax K10D digital SLR camera features 10.2 effective megapixels and a host of advanced technologies including a Pentax-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system and a weather-resistant body.

Choose a camera that redefines the entry-level digital SLR category. The PENTAX K-x offers high-end features including Live View, HD video and photographic performance that challenges higher class models.

Brains, meet beauty. The Pentax K-r has it all. On the brain side, it’s a powerful DSLR with advanced features like 12.4 Megapixels, HD video, a 2.7-inch LCD display and custom modes and functions. On the beauty side, taking photos has never looked this good. There’s basic black of course.

The unique PENTAX smc P-FA 31mm f/1.8 Limited lens offers exceptionally high image and a wide-angle perspective. It incorporates a glass-molded aspherical lens element into its 9-element, 7-group optics, and offers sharp, crisp image reproduction, even at the maximum aperture of f/1.8.

Suitable For: Work with Hot Shoe Cameras,Wireless Remote Trigger Studio,Wireless Hot, Shoe Flash Remote Slave Trigger Sensor Work with flash units using universal hot shoe like CANON, Nikon, Sigma, Olympus,

PENTAX Announces Lifeproof WG-2 and WG-2 GPSPENTAX has just announced an update to its WG-series of “lifeproof” cameras, the Optio WG-2 and the Optio WG-2 GPS, which will replace their WG-1 counterparts from last year. Both cameras are making the jump from a 14 megapixel CCD to a 16 megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor, which allows for full HD 1080p moving recording

Hot off the press, Pentax USA has just announced information about an all new EVIL or ILC digital camera, the K-01. Like the Pentax Q, the K-01 boasts a very small stature. However, the K-01 is the World’s thinnest ILC camera to house an APS-C sized image sensor; which is a huge enhancement over the Q.

In honor of the PENTAX 645D being named “Camera of the Year” at Camera Grand Prix Japan 2011, PENTAX has announced a limited edition kit model of the camera that will have a custom red and black lacquer-finished body and golden PENTAX logos. The entire kit will be housed in a specially designed paulownia-wood box and include: