Pentax
I've been very busy with my dissertation over the past few weeks and for completing the draft I decided to purchase a new camera, my old camera works fine but it doesn't shoot very well when taking long range photos. I decided to go the full wack and upgrade to a DSLR!
PENTAX K-7 Review
Price:
- Original Price Around £1000
- Sale price £699 with free P&P - It also came with 18-55mm zoom lens
Features
- One of the smallest and strongest DSLR's in it's class (Materials include stainless steel alloy and magnesium steel alloy making it small but durable, it is also dust proof, weather and cold resistant.)
- 100% optical view finder (almost)
- High speed continuous shooting (5.2 images per second)
- High quality images (14.6 mega pixels)
- Shake reduction (blur free images)
- Face recognition (LCD monitor)
- HD video recording (external microphone input terminal)
- 11 point wide frame AF sensor (Autofocus)
- Visual effects (hue, saturation, brightness, contrast ect,)
- LCD monitor (920,000 dots)
- HDR (takes three photos and combines them with different exposures)
- RAW (can choose RAW or JPG)
Faults
- High ISO causes a lot of noise in the picture
Rating
Image quality - 9/10
Build quality - 10/10
Handling - 10/10
Features - 10/10
Focus accuracy - 10/10
RAW - 10/10
JPG - 9/10
ISO - 6/10
View finder - 10/10
Performance - 10/10
Video - 9/10
Battery life - 10/10
Value - 10/10
Here is a test photo I took as soon as it arrived. Hopefully I can get some pictures at CICE (Cardiff International Comic Expo) I can't wait!
