{"id":1150,"date":"2009-05-21T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-05-21T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:01:41","slug":"new-pentax-k-7-dslr-with-some-interesting-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"new Pentax K-7 dSLR with some interesting new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I don&#8217;t follow Pentax closely, their new K-7 dSLR has some interesting features which Olympus fans might like to see in their cameras given they are both based on similar CCD-shift IS technology and Live View technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the K-7 is a 14.6mp, APS-C sensor with weatherproofed body, CCD-shift image stabiliser of 2.5-4 stops, 100% field of view viewfinder, 5.2 fps burst rate, 11 point (9 cross-type) AF, 920,000 dot 3&#8243; fixed LCD, face detection contrast AF in live preview and comes with the now almost standard movie mode at 1280&#215;720 pixels at 30fps but no live AF although it does have an external mic input at least.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, a few rather innovative features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>continuous shooting in live view mode with mirror locked up via an innovative diaphragm-control mechanism &#8211; but have they finally made a near silent live view capture mode?<\/li>\n<li>HDR (high dynamic range) function to create one composite image with an extra-wide gradation range from three images with different exposures<\/li>\n<li>Digital level function for easy checking of the image\u2019s levels as with Olympus E620 presumably<\/li>\n<li>Innovative CCD-shift mechanism for ensuring sensor is level horizontally (within limits) AND the ability for minute angle adjustment (in the direction of up\/down, right\/left and clockwise\/counterclockwise), helping to compose the image exactly the way the photographer wants.<\/li>\n<li>Attachment of copyright credits on recorded images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>see more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0905\/09052003pentaxk7dslr.asp?\">dpreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I don&#8217;t follow Pentax closely, their new K-7 dSLR has some interesting features which Olympus fans might like to see in their cameras given they are both based on similar CCD-shift IS technology and Live View technologies. Firstly, the K-7 is a 14.6mp, APS-C sensor with weatherproofed body, CCD-shift image stabiliser of 2.5-4 stops, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58,137],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-dslrs","tag-pentax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}