{"id":2524,"date":"2009-04-25T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2009-04-26T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:49:16","slug":"new-pentax-k-slr-coming-k7d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/04\/25\/new-pentax-k-slr-coming-k7d\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pentax K SLR coming (K7D?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I leave the keyboard for a couple of days and here is a flurry of people giving us information about the possible new Pentax SLR photo camera.<\/p>\n<p>The most obvious point was the appearance of an ad for it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2525\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pentax_new_k_slr.jpg\" alt=\"Pentax new K7D\" title=\"pentax_new_k_slr\" width=\"283\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2525\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentax new K7D<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And a German user informed us that the name should be <strong>Pentax K7D<\/strong>. This would be good to start what is expected as a significantly new product line in the Pentax SLR cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The proclaimed price tag is \u20ac1500.<\/p>\n<p>Two locations on the Internet published notably different (though precise) feature sets:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaxforums.com\/forums\/565475-post14.html\">PentaxForums.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Square (?) sensor 1.3x crop factor.<\/li>\n<li>A new, overhauled AF system<\/li>\n<li>Continuous shooting: 5fps or more<\/li>\n<li>1.0x viewfinder<\/li>\n<li>720p video with audio<\/li>\n<li>1\/8000s shutter<\/li>\n<li>2.7 or 3.0 inch VGA res screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/43rumors.com\/ok-k7d-the-may-21th\/\">43rumors.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Same sensor as the K20D<\/li>\n<li>Sensitivity: Up to 6400 ISO with better noise treatment<\/li>\n<li>Continuous shooting: 5 images\/sec<\/li>\n<li>100 % viewfinder<\/li>\n<li>Better weatherproofing<\/li>\n<li>Mirror lockup<\/li>\n<li>Liveview and HD Video<\/li>\n<li>Better stabilizer.<\/li>\n<li>Better DRE mode<\/li>\n<li>77 zones light metering<\/li>\n<li>Much better AF system even with non-SDM lenses<\/li>\n<li>3 inches\/ 920,000 pixels screen with in-body editing (crop, \u2026)<\/li>\n<li>1\/8000s shutter with 1\/250s flash sync<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to wait until 21 May&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mash and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neutralday.com\/rampant-speculation-on-pentax-k7d-specs-begins\/\">NeutralDay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave the keyboard for a couple of days and here is a flurry of people giving us information about the possible new Pentax SLR photo camera. The most obvious point was the appearance of an ad for it. And a German user informed us that the name should be Pentax K7D. This would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,64,117],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pentax-k30d","category-pentax-k3d","category-pentax-k7","tag-rumour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}