If you are looking for a new digital SLR camera, most people say to choose Nikon or Canon. For many years, there is practically no longer connected to other brand digital cameras (mostly DSLRs), as these two. The Pentax K10D is against the market came in September 2006. This was an attempt to break Sony Pentax first two in the domain of the DSLR camera market. Now, about 4 years later, Pentax finally a product that is worthy, as "a consideration,serious candidate "for these two. The product is Pentax K5.
Pentax K5 K7 (one of Pentax's flagship product) is designed as a basis. As such, it takes on the characteristics of reliability, usability and advanced than its predecessor. However, K5 is in the name of the Pentax autofocus and image quality at high ISO refined. The result is simply fantastic! Some Pentax K5 impartial reviews on the Internet also shows that exceed the most popular Nikon D70, Canon 7D and Canon 60D, in someArea (eg, color depth, low light ISO and dynamic range).
Pentax DSLR 16.3 MP K5 with low noise CMOS image sensor, an improved autofocus system, continuous shooting speed (7 frames per second) and video recording with full HD 1080p (with a maximum of 1536 x 1024 pixel screen resolution). However, the two most beautiful characteristics of the capabilities of this camera to take pictures at ISO 51 200 (the highest ever in D-SLR) and the fact that its sensor is simply the bestAPS-C (comparable, even with the very high-end full-frame cameras, up to a certain level).
Pentax K7 most disturbing weakness was his sub-par high ISO performance. However, engineers in the development of Pentax K5 is working hard to improve this weakness. The result is amazing. K5 K7 naturally and consistently exceeded. Current testing shows that K5 is a very good SNR to ISO 1600 (better than K7 point to ISO 800) shows. Since these weaknesses were corrected, there is lessThe reason is not the choice of this DSLR camera on the big two.
All in all, if you think about the upgrade of the digital SLR camera, or take your first professional digital SLR camera, you should seriously consider buying Pentax K5.