On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:35:06PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > > I believe the K-5 is the most compact & light weight Pentax DSLR to > date. I remember the K-7 was more compact than the K20D when I got > to preview it at Grandfather Mountain in 2009. I think the K-5 is > supposed to be even more compact.
Not according to Boz's K-mount page. K-5: 131x97x73mm 660g K-7: 130.5x96.5x72.5mm 670g I'm pretty sure the difference in dimensions here is just because the K-5 measuremenmts have been rounded to whole mm; after all, both of these cameras share the same accessory battery grip. K-r: 125x97x68mm 544g K-x: 122.5x91.5x67.5 515g Both of these are noticeably smaller and lighter than the K-5; the K-x appears to be the smallest of all the Pentax DSLRs. I believe the smallest old Pentax DSLRs were the DS/DS2/DL/DL2, which measured 125x92.5x66mm. The DL was the lightest at 470g (because it used a pentamirror, not a pentaprism), but at 505g the others were all pretty lightweight. The K100D and variants all shared the same 129.5x92.5x70mm body, at weights ranging from 485g (K110D) to 570g (K100D super). The K200D is larger and heavier (133.5x95x74mm, 630g). The K-5 isn't even the smallest and lightest Pentax DSLR with two control wheels - than honour goes to the *ist-D at 550g in a 129x95x60mm body. That's pretty close to the K-5 for height and width (the extra 2mm of the K-5 is probably needed to fit the shake reduction mechanism into the box), and the extra depth of the K-5 is at least partly due to the much deeper sculpted handgrip - the body itself is no thicker. So, at first glance, the K-5 is pretty much the same size as the *ist-D - not quite as small as the DS/DL bodies, but significantly smaller than the K10D/K20D. It's a lot heavier, though (660g vs. the 550g of the *ist-D), but still 50g lighter than the K10D/K20D. The K-x and K-r are about the same size as the DS/DL. -- 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.
