PENTAX
Pentax announced a new digital SLR camera referred to as "*ist D".
They claim it to be the the world's smallest, lightest camera body in the digital SLR category. It offers an impressive 6.1 effective megapixels, a pentaprism viewfinder, and a 1.8 inch LCD monitor.
This new camera was not available for hands-on demonstration, instead it sat on a miniature turntable within a glass show case. It is expected to launch in July 2003.
CCD 23.5 mm x 15.7 mm supported by their unique mage processing technology. With this combined approach, the *ist D achieves 6.1 effective megapixels.
It weights in at just 18 ounces or 510 grams. It is very small at 5 inches (129 mm) x 3.7 inches (95 mm) x 2.3 inches (60 mm).
- 16-segment metering
- 11-point auto focus sensor
- fast 1/4000 of a second shutter speed
- flash sync at 1/150 of a second
- continuous shooting to 2.7 fps
- 2-dial system separates aperture and shutter selections
- custom functions
- program, shutter-priority, aperture-priority, and something called hyper manual to permit a perfectly exposed manual setting
- built-in automatic noise reduction for long exposures
- Microdrive and CompactFlash Type I / II
- four AA batteries or two CR-V3 lithium-ion batteries
- USB 1.1
1.8 inch, 118,000-pixel LCD monitor
- image playback with nine image- and 12x magnification display
- JPEG, TIFF and raw
- Raw file software
- special battery grip
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