Pentax K20D full review
You may have thought Pentax had gone the way of the buffalo, but could it be headed toward a comeback with the K20D? Here’s a link to a full review to help you decide. You can also check out a corporate video about the product here.
The guys at dpreview seemed fairly impressed. Here’s an excerpt:
The stand-out feature of the K20D is undoubtedly its 14.6MP CMOS sensor, co-developed with the giant South Korean conglomerate Samsung. The companies claim the design reduces the amount of circuitry around each photosite, offering a similar light-sensitive area, per pixel, to a 12MP chip of conventional design. The other major change is the addition of a live-view mode that provides a zoomable, live preview directly from the imaging sensor.
Pentax has also tweaked the default settings of the camera’s JPEG output (our biggest gripe about the K10D), so does the K20D offer enough to play with the big boys?
Key feature changes
The feature changes between the K10D and K20D are subtle but this is mainly because there was little that the K10D needed adding to its pretty formidable features list. The changes that have been made are:
- 14.6 megapixel CMOS sensor
- Live view mode
- 2.7 inch 230,000 dot LCD (up from 2.5 in. 210,000)
- Burst mode, allows 21fps shooting at 1.6MP resolution (up to 115 frames)
- Dynamic range expansion mode
- X-sync flash socket
- Image parameter settings (Custom image), enhanced
- Color adjustable LCD monitor
- Compare mode in playback
- 32x zoom in playback
- Adjustable levels of High ISO noise reduction
- Senstivities up to ISO 3200 (extendable to 6400), rather than ISO 1600
- Dust alert for locating particles on the sensor
- Pixel mapping to identify and correct for dead pixels
- AF fine-tuning (for all lenses or up to 20 chosen lenses)
Check out dpreview.com for the full review!
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