Pentax K-m Review
(also known as the Pentax K2000)
Review Date: December 1st 2008
Author: Mark Goldstein
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Specifications
| Type | |
| Camera Type | Single Lens Reflex |
| Sensor | |
| Effective Pixels | 10.2 megapixels |
| Total Pixels | 10.75 megapixels |
| Type | 23.5mm x 15.7mm Interline interlace CCD with a primary colour filter |
| Sensitivity | Auto, Manual : 100`1600 (1EV steps or 1/2EV steps or 1/3EV steps) |
| Colour Depth | 8 bit (JPEG) or 12 bit (RAW) |
| Image Size | |
| Still | JPEG: [10M] 3872 x 2592 pixels, [6M] 3008 x 2000 pixels, [2M] 1824 x 1216 pixels RAW: [10M] 3872 x 2592 pixels |
| File Format | |
| Still | RAW (Original), JPEG (Conforms to Exif 2.21), Conforms to DCF (Design rule of Camera File system) 2.0 |
| Quality Level | *Good, **Better, ***Best |
| Storage Media | |
| External | SD/SDHC compattible |
| 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) |
| Focusing system | |
| Area | Wide, Spot |
| Mode | AF.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) |
| Exposure system | |
| Metering | TTL open-aperture 16-segment metering (coupled with lens and AF information) |
| Metering Area | (1) Multi-segment metering (2) Center-weighted metering (3) Spot metering |
| Exposure System | |
| Metering Range | EV 0 - 21 (at Standard Output Sensitivity 100 with 50mm F1.4 lens) |
| Exposure system | |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Exposure System | |
| Compensation | 2 EV (0.5EV steps or 0.3EV steps) |
| Exposure system | |
| Auto Exposure Lock | available |
| Shutter | |
| Type | Electronically controlled vertical-run focal plane shutter |
| Speed | 1/4000 - 30 sec. and bulb |
| Viewfinder | |
| Type | Fixed molded penta-mirror type |
| Focusing screen | Natural-Bright-Matte II focusing screen |
| Field of View | approx. 96% |
| Magnification | approx. 0.85X (with 50mm F1.4 lens, infinity, -1m-1) |
| Diopter adjustment | approx. -2.5 - +1.5m-1 |
| Flash | |
| Type | Built-in retractable P-TTL pop-up flash |
| Modes | Auto, Flash On, Auto+Redeye reduct, Flash On+Red-eye, Wireless sync |
| Guide Number | approx. 11 (Standard Output Sensitivity 100/m) |
| Angle of View Coverage | 28mm wide-angle (equivalent to 35mm) |
| Exposure Compensation | -2 EV - +1EV (1/2EV steps) |
| Synchronization | Hot shoe, sync-speed: 1/180 sec., P-TTL, high-speed-sync, wireless-sync with PENTAX dedicated flash |
| Drive Mode | |
| Modes | Single-frame , Continuous (Hi, Lo), Self-timer (12s, 2s), Remote control (0s, 3s), Auto bracket |
| White Balance | |
| Modes | Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy,Tungsten Light, Fluorescent Light (W, D, N), Flash, Manual setting, with WB fine adjustment |
| Screen | |
| LCD | 2.7" TFT color LCD monitor , brightness adjustable, Wide angle view |
| Playback | |
| View | 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 |
| 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 |
| Language | |
| Language | English, French, Germany, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkey, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
| Interface | |
| PC | USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed) |
| AV | Video AV* *Compattible with PAl and NTSC formats |
| PictBridge | Single image, All images, DPOF, Paper Size, Paper Type, Paper Quality, Border |
| Power | |
| Source | Four AA (lithium, alkaline, and rechargeable Ni-MH) batteries Optional AC adapter also available. |
| Dimensions | |
| 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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