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Pentax K-m - Specifications

Product data
Article Number 17300
Release date Sep 22, 2008
Type
Camera Type Single Lens Reflex
Sensor
Type 23.5mm x 15.7mm Interline interlace CCD with a primary colour filter
Total Pixels 10.75 megapixels
Effective Pixels 10.2 megapixels
Still JPEG: [10M] 3872 x 2592 pixels, [6M] 3008 x 2000 pixels, [2M] 1824 x 1216 pixels RAW: [10M] 3872 x 2592 pixels
Colour Depth 8 bit (JPEG) or 12 bit (RAW)
Sensitivity Auto, Manual : 100-3200 (1EV steps or 1/2EV steps or 1/3EV steps)
White Balance Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy,Tungsten Light, Fluorescent Light (W, D, N), Flash, Manual setting, with WB fine adjustment
Lens
Mount PENTAX KAF2 bayonet mount
Usable lenses PENTAX KAF2-, KAF-, and KA-mount  lenses.
Focusing System
Type TTL Phase-matching 5-point wide autofocus system (SAFOX)
Functions Wide, SpotAF.A(auto), AF.S(single, with focus lock), AF-C(continuous)*, Manual focus * Auto Picture and Picture mode : only when the Action mode is selected. * Scene mode : only when the Kids, Pet, Stage lighting and Night snap mode is selected. * P/Sv/Tv/Av/M/B : AF.A, AF.S or AF.C selectable
AF assist avaiable (by Built-in Flash)
Viewfinder
Type Fixed molded penta-mirror type
Field of View approx. 96%
Magnification approx. 0.85X (with 50mm F1.4 lens, infinity, -1m-1)
Focusing screen Natural-Bright-Matte II focusing screen
Diopter adjustment approx. -2.5 - +1.5m-1
Screen
Type 2.7" TFT color LCD monitor , brightness adjustable, Wide angle view
Playback Single frame, 4-image display, 9-image display, 16-image display, Zoom display (up to 16 times, scrolling possible), Image comparison, Rotating, Folder, Calender, Slideshow, Histogram, Bright/Dark area, Resize, Trimming, Index
Shutter
Type Electronically controlled vertical-run focal plane shutter
Speed 1/4000 - 30 sec. and bulb
X-Synchronization Hot shoe, sync-speed: 1/180 sec., P-TTL, high-speed-sync, wireless-sync with PENTAX dedicated flash
Exposure system
Metering TTL open-aperture 16-segment metering (coupled with lens and AF information)(1) Multi-segment metering (2) Center-weighted metering (3) Spot metering
Exposure Modes (1) Auto Picture mode (2) Picture mode (3) Scene mode (4) Program AE (5) Sensitivity-Priority AE (6) Shutter-Priority AE (7) Aperture-Priority AE (8) Metered Manual (9) Bulb Picture modes: Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Action, Night scene portrait, Standard Flash-Off Scene moded: Night Scene, Surf & Snow, Food, Sunset, Kids, Pet, Candlelight, Museum, Stage lighting*, Night snap*   *The image is fixed to 2 MB of only JPEG.
Metering Range EV 0 - 21 (at Standard Output Sensitivity 100 with 50mm F1.4 lens)
Auto Exposure Lock available
Compensation ±2 EV (0.5EV steps or 0.3EV steps)
Auto Bracketing 3 frames within range of  ±0.5EV,  ±1.0EV, ±1.5EV (0.5EV steps) or ±0.3EV,  ±0.7EV, ±1.0EV (0.3EV steps)
Flash
Type Built-in retractable P-TTL pop-up flash
Guide Number approx. 11 (Standard Output Sensitivity 100/m)
Modes Auto, Flash On, Auto+Redeye reduct, Flash On+Red-eye, Wireless sync
Angle of View Coverage 28mm wide-angle (equivalent to 35mm)
Exposure Compensation -2 EV - +1EV (1/2EV steps)
Exposure Parameters
Modes Single-frame , Continuous (Hi, Lo), Self-timer (12s, 2s), Remote control (0s, 3s), Auto bracket
Digital Filter Rec. mode: Toy camera, High contrast, Soft, Star burst, Retro, Extract colour Playback: Toy camera, High contrast, Soft, Star burst, Retro, Extract colour, Illustration(Pastel, Water colour), HDR, B&W, Sepia, Colour, Slim, Brightness, Custom
Storage
External SD/SDHC compattible
File Format RAW (Original), JPEG (Conforms to Exif 2.21), Conforms to DCF (Design rule of Camera File system) 2.0*Good, **Better, ***Best
Special Features
Language English, French, Germany, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkey, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Printing
Format Single image, All images, DPOF, Paper Size, Paper Type, Paper Quality, Border
Interface
Interface USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed)Video AV* *Compattible with PAl and NTSC formats
Power
Source Four AA (lithium, alkaline, and rechargeable Ni-MH) batteries Optional AC adapter also available.
Body
Height 91.5mm
Width 122.5mm
Depth 67.5mm
Weight 525g (18.5 oz.) without battery and SD memory card.
Compatibility
PC Windows XP, Windows VistaTM was pre-installed
Mac Mac OS X 10.3 or later was pre-installed at Macintosh PC
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