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Pentax K-500 announced, Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Pentax K-500

Pentax has refreshed its entry level DSLR lineup with the announcement of K-500. The K-500, meanwhile, gets most of the K-50‘s features – the main loss being weather sealing – in a less expensive package.
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Pentax K-50 announced, Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Pentax K-50

Pentax has refreshed its entry level DSLR lineup with the announcement of the K-50. The K-50 is an update of the K-30, featuring less controversial styling and slightly tweaked processing, helping it offer a maximum ISO of 51,200. While not radically different from the K-30, this camera brings twin dial controls and 100% glass prism viewfinders to price points, where features are rare. Alongside the cameras, Pentax is launching revised, DA-L versions of its 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 WR and 55-200mm F4-5.6 WR lenses.
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Pentax Q7 announced, Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Pentax Q7

Pentax Ricoh has announced the Pentax Q7 – its latest Q-mount camera and the first to feature a larger, 1/1.7″ type sensor. The 7.44 x 5.58mm, 12MP BSI CMOS sensor is the same size as the one used in many enthusiast compacts, with the company claiming a 60% improvement in S/N ratio over the existing Q10. This improvement also allows the camera to focus faster in low light.
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Fujifilm and Panasonic developed an organic CMOS image sensor

organic CMOS image sensor

 

Panasonic and Fujifilm worked together on a new kind of organic sensor. The  new sensor has the following advantages over conventional sensors:
1) it has only 1/6 of the thickness of the current sensors
2) Increased Dynamic range of 88dB
3) 1,2 times more sensible
4) range of incident angles of 60 degrees, efficiently utilizing light entering at an angle for faithful color reproduction with no color mixing. It also gives greater flexibility in lens designs, facilitating the reduction of overall camera size.

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