This could be the first image of the upcoming new Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera. It has been posted at Dpreview forum. The poster said he found it on a unnamed Chinese forum. Yeah, always blame anonymous Chinese for leaks without to mention the source 🙂
As you know the specs are already out:
- Pentax new mirrorless camera will be announced by CP + in February.
- The name is K-01
- K-mount!
- Black & white body color (black keynote), white and black (white tone), black and yellow (based on black and white, yellow leather) three different colors.
- The sensor is the same spec K-5 (). And same rear LCD.
- Full HD video
- Shutter speed to 1 / 4000 p to 30 seconds
- Contrast AF, AF 81 Split
- Built-in pop-up flash
- 121mm width, 79mm height, 59mm depth
- 560g in weight with battery
- designed by the designer who designed talby from au (i.e. Japanese mobile phone sold in 2004)
- it looks more like Optio than K series; not like GXR
- comes with a new lens: DA 40mm F2.8XS
- three lens kits with DA40XS and lenses already on market
- mirrorless but whether there is an EVF or it is built in is not revealed
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via Photorumors.
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Man are these crops going to be the new thing now ? It’s so obviously teasing, and you know that who-ever it comes from has the whole thing. A crappy cell-phone picture of a pre-production unit now that’s a real leak like they used to be.
they really are committed to their lens mount standart. 🙂
crap.. better show me a piece of katie perrys vagina…..
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you got ZERO chance mate because you ain’t got the money, looks or character
why would you want to see that?
it looks like it will be really cool or really ugly
looks to me like:
k-mount confirmed
grip-able finish and large knurled dial suggests weather sealed.
name k-01 confirmed.
I think this will be a bold camera with many interesting features, hope it does reasonably well…
These partial pics are really starting to annoy me! Where the hell is more of the OM-D. 😉
This camera will have all the lenses from start, some of them very compact. You can also get used lenses at a fair price. Weight is about 50g more than the famous Oly OM-1
Well known sensor, processor, firmware and most likely UI that is high quality. The K-5 is very competent in every aspect and there are som great lenses to it.
But – the sensor is about to be “last generation”, not current.
Still a camera to consider together with OM-D, NEX-7, Pro 1X, GH3.. That is if it has a very good VF.
Wonderful times for us who are interested in camera technology that (maybe)suites our photography better!
> * K-mount!
That totally makes no sense – without a on-sensor-PDAF.
What I don’t understand is that it’s supposedly 560g (same as D5100 or 600D) so heavy like a DSLR but you lose the OVF…and probably PDAF. Seems like the worst of both worlds, I don’t see the point.
Based on the Optio? Really? How dumb is that?…
I don’t know if you’ve seen these images yet: http://www.digifotopro.nl/content/pentax-k-01-is-spiegelloze-camera-met-k-vatting
It’s not what the real camera will look like, but looks quite ok to me, expept that the viewfinder is not built-in.
Does not look bad. But I think the camera should be thicker. 45.5mm registration distance requires more space than the one shown.
that’s a very nice render, thanks. much better than i imagined. i do hope it has a new and improved detachable evf which can also be used on the gxr.
About the size of A55 without the viewfinder hump. Does the thickness includes the grip?
K mount!!!! Give me more
How does a K-mount make any sense on a mirrorless camera?
The camera would end up being just as thick as a DSLR and it would eliminate the possibility of adapting most other lenses.
I guess they could use the same mount with a shorter registration distance and new lenses – and have a simple pass through adapter making up the registration distance for K-mount SLR lenses that would retain full functionality.
Already looking ugly. First the Pentax Q and now this. Pentax will be finished in a year or two.
People have been saying that since the ’80s.