{"id":2467,"date":"2008-09-19T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:28:08","slug":"pentax-is-working-on-a-new-slr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/19\/pentax-is-working-on-a-new-slr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentax is working on a new SLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leak on a Pentax Germany web site (quickly plugged but collected efficiently) shows the specification of a future Pentax SLR camera.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 MP CCD APS-C<\/li>\n<li>Sensor-shift image stabilization<\/li>\n<li>Continuous shooting: 3.5 fps<\/li>\n<li>Sensitivity: up to 3200 ISO<\/li>\n<li>LCD screen: 2.7&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>RAW (PEF, DNG) and JPEG<\/li>\n<li>Four AA\/R6\/LR4 batteries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is difficult to extract real product data out of so little information, but it is clear that these are the features of an entry-level SLR camera that would allow Pentax to widen its customer base. A post is stating a target price of 500\u20ac (body only) and 600\u20ac with a 2-lens kit!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the leak was wide since it was also describing the following bunch of lenses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DA super telephoto coming up later (not precise)<\/li>\n<li>new SDM 1.4x converter<\/li>\n<li>AF160 FC ring flash<\/li>\n<li>DA 15mm f\/4 LTD (coming in 2009)<\/li>\n<li>DA * 60-250 SDM (1300\u20ac)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really understand if this is to be presented during the Photokina. But we can translate all this into: Pentax is going to fight hard and dirty (understand with a good ratio of features-over-price) in order to get a strong foothold in the widest part of the SLR market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1001noisycameras.com\/\">1001 Noisy Cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leak on a Pentax Germany web site (quickly plugged but collected efficiently) shows the specification of a future Pentax SLR camera. 10 MP CCD APS-C Sensor-shift image stabilization Continuous shooting: 3.5 fps Sensitivity: up to 3200 ISO LCD screen: 2.7&#8243; RAW (PEF, DNG) and JPEG Four AA\/R6\/LR4 batteries It is difficult to extract real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}