The Pentax K-7 has been declared one of the best DSLR cameras available at its’ surprisingly reasonable (all things considered) price tag of around $1300 by such fine publications as Wired and Photography Blog, and
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you can see why: there’s a 3-inch Live View LCD, an HDMI port, shake reduction, in-camera lens correction, and a greatly improved dust reduction system. It has a 14.6 megapixel sensor which is contained along with the rest of the bits in a rugged magnesium alloy body, has an HD movie mode that captures video at |
640 x 416, 720p (1,280 x 720) or 1,536 x 1,024, all of which are at 30fps. Now, that’s more than both Nikon’s D90 and D5000 have got (both max at 720p), and although Canon’s T1i does 1080p, that’s only at a choppy 20fps. Now, what’s really going to tickle your wedding vegetables is the High Dynamic Range (HDR) capture mode, which can grab a trio of pictures, and then combines them in-camera to expand the exposure gamut.
Just How Good Is the Video?
Well, someone’s already managed to get one and shoot a quick sample video for us, have a look:
It’s just now (like, today) been officially released for sale and you can even order it on Amazon now, brick-and-mortar retailers should have it by this weekend at the latest.
Additional Resources and Further Reading
An exceptionally good and detailed review over at PhotographyBlog
Official Pentax website for the K-7
3 responses so far ↓
1 Daniel K. Attling // Jul 3, 2009 at 8:24 am
So this is considered good video? To me the colors and contrasts where playing silly buggers until he sat down. Also, while moving there looked to be what I can only liken to shutter lag, causing flickering. If this is good for only 1300USD then my shitty three year old 320×240 capable cellphone is awesome.
2 jay // Jul 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Yea, I’m waiting for the DSLRs to maximize the optics capture to the sensor – I’m not an expert or anything, but I think the video should be epic on a $1300+ camera
3 DARELO_X // Jul 3, 2009 at 2:36 pm
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS CAMERA (K-7 pentax )PRIMARILY ARE AWESOME PICTURE CLARITY, NEW SPEEDY 5.2 FPS WITH 1/8000 SHUTTER SPEED AND THE NEAR PERFECT COLOR REPRODUCTION, I HAVE ALMOST ALL THE PREVIOUS PENTAX DIGITAL AND THAT’S WHY IM EXPECTING TO HAVE THIS BABY_K-7 ON MY BAG…
— WHATTTT .. THERE IS HDR !!! OH MY …AND VIDEO TOO ?? WELL .. THATS A PLUS
ALL I CARE MUCH IS ABOUT THE FAST FOCUSING WHEN IM NOT COMPOSING FOR A BETTER SUBJECT SHOT… OTHERWISE I STILL USE THE IRREPLACEABLE MANUAL FOCUSING…
darelo x
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