The video on tops shows the AF speed of the new K-01 camera paired with the new 40mm super pancake lens. Not a bad performance but also not extremely good 🙂
Pentax also unveiled the new lens roadmap (via PB and PR):
- 50mm DA standard lens (2012)
- 18-200 DAÂ high magnification zoom lens (2012)
- 12-28mm DA wide zoom (2013)
- 24-38mm DA zoom limited lens (2013)
- 120-380mm DA tele zoom (2013)
- 18-85mm DA zoom lens (2013)
- DA AF RC 1.4x teleconverter (2013)
Here is the image of the lens roadmap (Click on it to enlarge):
And here are some more K-01 news:
Pixiq (Click here) shared some thoughts about the K-01: “Design-led? Actually, I think the Pentax K-01 means business“
And some more thougths by Admiringlight (Click here).
Hands on review at Techradar (Click here).
Preorders and price info:
Black K-01 body at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here)
Silver K-01 body at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Yellow K-01 body at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
K-01 with all different possible kit lenses at BHphoto (Click here).
K-01 body +40mm pancake preorder at Adorama (Click here)
K-01 body +18-55mm and 50-200mm preorder at Adorama (Click here)
40mm pancake at BHphoto (Click here)
29 Responses
It’s interesting. I’m getting used to how this camera looks, slowly. I won’t buy it but I reckon it’s not bad design.
HUGE!!!! I’d prefer a DSLR if I accept that kind of size
agree..too big, better getting a K5…
The design is growing on me the lack of any vf will always bother me though. I was hoping for a optional evf but that’s rulled out now aswell.
Admin- on the AF performance- remember this is a pre-production camera. Even the Pentax Q which upon release had a slightly sluggish AF, improved significantly with the firmware upgrade released shortly after.
So just saying… I wouldn’t judge the AF performance by pre-production firmware.
50mm as a standard?
Are they going to introduce a FF camera?
For K-01, what Pentax needs are prime lenses in the “reasonably affordable” segment. They have a 35 mm, but it is only F2.4 and has a most flimsy build – but OK sharpness. Then they also have some “limited” prime lenses, but they are VERY expensive.
The new 50 mm is hopefully reasonably bright (~F1.8-F2.0) and reasonably affordable.
But it there is no normal prime (35 mm) or anything wide in the “reasonably affordable” segment. Not even in the roadmap. Something one must be aware of if one thinks about purchasinga K-mount camera.
This is one ugly camera, should be sold at Toys ‘r’ Us, next to the ‘V’ Tech computers. Was it designed by ‘Lego’???
Your comment makes you sound like a kid who’s trying to do some grown-up people do or looking for the new ‘toy’ instead of a real photographer looking for the best tool to take the best photographs.
This post right here is not about introducing the first look of the camera anymore. It’s about the autofocus performance and lenses roundup. If you think about toy’r us when you see this, well maybe you belong to be there anytime now.
Touchy, I’ve been using SLR’s for quite a long time now and am quite aware of the abilities required in a camera, also very much aware of how styling affects many camera sales.
That may be, but the reply is correct in pointing out that this post is focused on the AF capacity of the camera and on the new lenses. There’s no reason to regale us with your widely parroted views on the camera’s ugliness here. It’s okay to find it ugly, but how often does it need to be said?
It certainly performs faster than the doom mongers at dpreview made out, they made the mistake of forming an opinion based on the contrast detect AF speed of previous Pentax DSLRS, the focus motor in the DSLR is optimized for phase detect and in this camera it will be optimized for contrast detect, the beauty here is that the AF motors are body based and not lens based so unlike other systems the old lenses can give full speed contrast detect focusing whereas with Canon for example the lenses will never offer fast contrast detect focusing because they are limited by the unsuitable motors build into them.
If anybody here’s planning to ever buy this thing, it would be great he posts a pic of his face on this very thread. Just to check something.
Ugly plastic brick. I think it will recycle well. It also has no sex appeal whatsoever. Instead of Leicas “Bond” it is Pentaxes “Mr. Bean”.
No idea how it performs but that is one ugly camera!
It looks fine to me, but without an evf it sounds unpractical.
This camera is going to be a tremendous fail.
There is no logic to add a EVF on this camera, it will be almost the same weight and size as k-r.
Pentax lens map is interesting.
particularly this one:
24-38mm DA zoom limited lens (2013)
this could be a very first pancake zoom lens pentax make.
I know a tool is a tool.
But how can this “star designer” possibly design a camera so repulsive?
Maybe it is almost like a really ugly girlfriend with a great personality : )
I like pancake lenses but I think there is such a thing as too small. Looks like you can barely put your fingers on it.
I must agree..i put my concern to things like how accurate/fast the autofocus is and wheater its gonna be better than the K5 itself since it has an improved k5 sensor with better image processor. K5 is by far the best camera in aps-c class in term of iq and DR.
The look isnt a big deal for me.since im not trying to impress nobody with the look of my camera but rather with the quality of the images that i take with that ‘tool’. Am I a tool? Ofcourse 🙂
That is one ugly camera. The design of clunkiness and the look of the back panel really remind me of the first point and shoot digital camera I bought in 1996.
It may have the worlds thinnest lens, but I am sure that is because they have one of the thicker clunkier mirrorless bodies I have seen, which seems to have been designed for the ‘thinnest lens’
Was this camera supposed to be released in 1998 and has been delayed?
looks like a toy for a premium price
Its a winner. the idea that mirrorless should be small is ridiculous. Small cameras a great on small primes but on everything else thet are hopeless.
Here we see all the K lenses aligned to a new mirrorless system
Cant wait
TB
Hey, Pentax! Kodak called, they want their box camera design mack! 😛
*back
lol