On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > A bit premature(?) release of the manualls from the german distributor > PDF's at bottom of page > http://www.pentax.de/_de/photo/service/download.php? > photo&service&download > I don't read geman very well I find: > > CMOS sensor > ISO 100-6400 > Same fps as K10 > 4 EV SR (one step improvement) > PC-sync > 19 segment metering (how many does K10 have?) > 2,7 Live view LCD > More sophisticated jpg controll > Same battery and BG-2 > Physical it looks almost idenitcal to K10. > > I can't find the bomb in the specs, but it seems a worthwhile > upgrade to me. > Let the whining begine ;-) > > Ben, the high profile fasion Pentax user has promised us picture > samples. > They will be published somewhere at pentaxforums.com, probably > other places > too. > > Tim Typo
This PDF of the German press release and a couple of press pictures with Japanese text was linked to a DPReview.com forum posting. In the German press release, if babelfish translates correctly, it claims a 20 fps burst mode capability and a 16 frame RAW buffer, PC flash terminal and other details: --- Summary of the most important equipment characteristics - 14.6 MP CMOS sensor - fast signal processing owing to PRIME - to Dust Alert - system for dust distance on the sensor - Pixelmapping - 14 bits similar to transducer - ISO 100 - ISO 6400 - dynamics rank Enlargement - intercarrier noise suppressor on hardware basis - intercarrier noise suppressor by software additionally - Live View over the highly soluble monitor - digitally Preview (after treatment storable) - sharpness depth preview - histogram announcement in single channels - Pentaprismensucher - Shake Reduction 4 LW - 16 field exposure measurement - 11 point ranging - 9 cross sensors - AF adjustment - Custom image with 4 color profiles - 5 color profiles and SW Aufnahmefunktion - RAW files in the DNG format - RAW + JPEG at the same time - individual file name can for photographs be assigned - interval timer - x-Synchronkontakt for lightning plants - 3-stufiges sensor cleaning system - 2.7"monitor - calibrationcash monitor - text size increasable on 150% - 4 exposure programs (normal, High speed, depth sharpness, MTF) - Bracketing by a trip pressure - programmable adjusting wheels - wireless lightning price increase - housing seals against humidity and dust - JPEG without delimitation - to 16 RAW in consequence - nearly 3 pictures per second - Burst mode with 20 B/Sek. - exposure row for white alignment, farbsaettigung, colour, contrast, sharpness - water and dust-sealed --- I nabbed these documents and posted them here for viewing: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PentaxK20Dinfo/Pressemeldung-K20D.pdf http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PentaxK20Dinfo/k20k200176.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/godders/PentaxK20Dinfo/k20k200lenses586.jpg The bitching about the K20D pre-dated even this information by about two months. I find this stupid. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
