Tag: Pentax

  • SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo – Conclusion

    SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo – Conclusion

    These recent days, we spent time evaluating the possibilities offered by each of the major photo SLR brands for the wildlife/nature photographer, but I would now like to also add a few wider comments. First, it appears clear that the already existing equipment of a photographer has an inordinate weight in everybody’s choice (you can…

  • SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo

    SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo

    Some photography specialties are more demanding than others for the hardware equipment (mostly photo lenses). Animal wildlife photography (African safari, photographic hunting in Asia or bird watching in Europe, for example) is the perfect example: Your subject is nearly always too far. Photo Marc Wunderlich – I’m on the left, along with Alain Saunier, our…

  • DxO Optics Pro v6.5.2

    Nouvelle version pour le produit phare de DxO Labs. Cette fois-ci (pour Windows et pour MacOS), il apporte le support des fichiers RAW de Pentax K-5, Sony NEX-5 & NEX-3.

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  • Pentax K-mount: No more Voigtländer

    Pentax K-mount: No more Voigtländer

    Manual focus lenses for the Pentax K mount manufactured and sold by Cosina under the Carl Zeiss and Voigtländer brands are coming to an end: Cosina announced it ceased manufacturing them.

  • Firmware v1.01 for Pentax K-5

    Pentax has presented a new firmware version for the brand new Pentax K-5. According to Pentax, the improvements are: Increased number of maximum pictures taken in continuous shooting in RAW, throughout the sensitivity range. For instance, in RAW, this firmware increases the number of pictures from a maximum of approx 8 frames to approx 20…

  • DxOMark: Pentax K-5 now at the top!

    It was not even a full day after I indicated that the Sony Alpha 55 was at the top of the competition since it had the best sensor evaluation ranking among the APS-C camera sensors. Here comes a new update from DxO Labs and the DxOMark ranking is revolutionized. Not only is the Pentax K5…

  • Longer bursts for the Pentax K-5

    Longer bursts for the Pentax K-5

    Pentax just announced that they will be able to lengthen the bursts of continuous shooting in the Pentax K-5 with a future new firmware. Availability: Somewhere in November 2010. Source : QueSabesDe.com

  • Color on the Pentax lenses

    There was already the all-color Pentax SLR cameras. Here come the 35mm f/2.4 lens. It will be available in 12 colors in a few weeks only.