| 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 |