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Pentax K-7

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2	544	Mon, 9 November 2009

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	USD1,250.00	10.0

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Description:	Announced 21 May 2009. A Mid-Class Digital SLR Camera, Aimed at Realizing the Essence of SLR Photography and Equipped with Sophisticated Features for Top-Quality Digital Photography HOYA CORPORATION PENTAX Imaging Systems Division is pleased to announce the launch of the PENTAX K-7 lens-interchangeable digital SLR camera. Despite its compact, lightweight body, this new model brings together a wide array of advanced functions and user-friendly features with outstanding reliability and operability. This makes it possible to enjoy high-quality digital SLR photography with great ease. The K-7 has been developed as a high-end model of the PENTAX K digital SLR camera series. True to its series concept, it was designed not only to assure outstanding image quality, but also to provide exceptional ease and comfort of operation and the utmost satisfaction to photo enthusiasts of all levels, including advanced amateurs. After making a thorough review of all essential digital SLR camera components and functions, PENTAX has revised and upgraded many of them, including viewfinder, shutter unit, continuous-shooting capacity, and exposure and autofocus systems. Protected by a durable, high-quality metallic body, but the K-7 is designed to be extremely compact and functional, just like all other K-series models, for enhanced portability and manoeuvrability. In addition, it has added several user-friendly features, including video recording, high dynamic range (HDR), and automatic horizon correction. All of these make the K-7 a tremendous photographic tool, perfect for all discerning digital SLR photographers.
Keywords:	DSLR
Weight:	approx. 670g (22.9 oz.) without battery and SD memory card. approx. 750g (26.5 oz.) loaded and ready with battery and SD memory card

Author

broken calsan

Registered: May 2007
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 1056

Review Date: Sun, 8 November 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	1st class quality
Cons:	None

I only rated it a "10" because "11" wasn't an available option.

All the little 'foibles' that existed on the K10d and K20d were systematically eradicated from this camera. This will auto-focus in complete darkness, isn't confused by tungsten light and the shutter operation is very quiet. I love the top LCD display and the dedicated buttons for exposure compensation and especially ISO. Add the little spirit level display to the mix and I'm in heaven! [Live-view and movie mode are there to meet marketing requirements, I ignore them.] Still needs a learning curve, but I say, just jump in at the deep end.
It's even better made than the already excellent K10d.
Now, if only I had an interesting subject to shoot....

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Calum

rei_vilo

Registered: June 2007
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 168

Review Date: Mon, 9 November 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: USD1,250.00 | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	High built quality and great image quality
Cons:	Learning curve due to so many options

I've been using the K-7 for two weeks now and I think it's time to do a first wrap-up.

Pros
- Build high quality
- Compact, lightweight, dust- and water-sealed, silent camera
- Great image quality
- 100% viewfinder
- Excellent ergonomics, both hardware and software
- Many manual parameters to control almost everything
- Improved and faster AF, light metering, shake reduction, dust protectionl, live-view
- Detailed user manual

Cons
- Real learning curve due to so many manual parameters and options
- Camera grip could result too short for big hands, hence the need for the optional battery grip
- In some case, inconsistent light metering

Wrap-up
- Everytime Pentax issues a new dSLR, it's a revolution! First with the K10D, then the K20D and now the K-7, Pentax continues delivering dSLRs with incredible value.
- As always with Pentax, ergonomics and ease of use are great.
- But this comes at a price, in term of learning curve. A real work is needed before going and shooting on the fields: Which options I need? Which ones I'm going to use?
- As always and most important, image quality is there and I had a lot of fun.

Full review at http://sites.google.com/site/vilorei/photography/K-7-user-review

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rei_vilo
K-7 + BG4 + DA* 16-50 + DA* 50-135 + DA* 60-250 + AF-540FGZ
sites.google.com/site/vilorei/photography