Reviews for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras

"Well built > Great image and video quality > Excellent kit lens > It's speedy...Frame wobble in video mode > Expensive at launch > No autofocus in video mode > AA batteries...Pentax has been a strong name in the burgeoning budget DSLR market for a long time...The £599 Pentax K-x continues in a similar vein...Their outward specifications are identical - they're the same size and almost exactly the same weight, and they both have a 2.7-inch..." read more »

"Limited control over autofocus No auto-orientation sensor...Though the supposed niche for the K2000 consists of consumers new to the DSLR market, the camera's compatibility with previously issued lenses could increase the K2000's appeal to Pentax enthusiasts of all stripes...And according to our tests, the K2000's image quality stands up to that of the best DSLRs out there...In PC World Test Center evaluations, the K2000 outperformed..." read more »

"Weatherproof casing, 720p video mode, plenty of features, plenty of buttons, mic-in socket, HDMI support...No 1080p movie mode, ISO only goes up to 6400, frame rate isn't as fast as the 50D, megapixel count not...In steps the Pentax K-7, a camera that is pitched at the "mid range" bracket, but what does that mean...Luckily the optical viewfinder is exceptionally good giving you near 100% coverage compared to the 50D, D5000 and 500D's 95...On the back next to..." read more »

"Impressive build quality Easy to use Good images straight out of the camera Fantastic price for a kit...No rechargeable battery supplied (just four AAs) Memory card costs extra...But what's new is a dust removal system that uses a protective coating on the K100D Super’s CCD sensor, backed up with a high-speed vibration mechanism that shakes the sensor free of any dust that has settled...Put simply, the Pentax K100D Super is more of a digital camera..." read more »

"Today we're going to look at Pentax's entrant, the K200D digital camera...Even more impressive is the fact that the Pentax K-mount bayonet enables just about any Pentax lens to be used with the new K200D...Fair enough, though it should be pointed out that the K2D00 is a ridiculously good-looking digital camera..." read more »

"In-camera optical image stabilization; relatively compact; great mix of auto and manual features....Auto white balance is warm in tungsten light; no raw-plus-JPEG mode; only 6 megapixels....In true contrarian style, the K100D is the more expensive of the two, thanks to Pentax's own sensor-shifting optical image stabilization...The camera's lowest sensitivity setting is ISO 200...Pentax's K100D does a wonderful job of balancing the needs of amateur and experienced..." read more »

"Rugged construction with stainless steel chassis and full environmental sealing Nice 2.7-inch, 230,000 pixel LCD that's color adjustable ...Live view mode has only limited usefulness Live view mode only covers 98% of image capture...That makes this shot a good one to look for the effect of over-aggressive noise suppression in the model's hair...So there may be an overall warm cast to the color...The overall slight warm cast will tend..." read more »

"Excellent image quality, though very soft Low noise all the way to ISO 1600 Robust ...Images are too soft, even at "high" sharpness Four-way ...Over the past six years of covering digital cameras, I've seen some strangely-named products...Find out now in our review of the *ist D...As I mentioned, the *ist D is the only D-SLR that uses AA batteries...While..." read more »