Ricoh launched the Pentax KP back in January this
year and now, Ricoh India has launched it in India at a price of Rs. 88,584.
The Pentax KP is a compact and portable APS-DSLR, designed specifically for
night photography. The highlight feature here is the very high sensitivity of
the sensor which goes all the way up to ISO 819200, which should make it
possible to capture images in next to no light.
The camera features a 24-megapixel APS-C sensor with
a 27-point autofocus system and is the first Pentax APS-C camera to have the
Shake Reduction II system with is essentially a 5-axis image stabilisation
system. The KP’s rugged exterior is dustproof and weather-sealed and can
withstand temperatures as low as -10 degrees Celsius. Some proprietary Pentax
technologies include Pixel Shift Resolution, which is said to offer more
accurate colour reproduction and an anti-aliasing filter simulator to reduce
moiré effect just like as optical filter.
Other features include an electronic shutter speed
of 1/24000 second; burst shooting of 7fps; 1080p video recording; vertical-tilt
3-inch LCD display, built-in Wi-Fi, and compatibility with Pextax’s DA-series
lenses. The KP also features a real-time scene analysis system that’ supposed
to analyses factors like brightness distribution in the image field and the
subject’s primary colour and motion. It then uses deep learning technology to
assess the scene more accurately and sets the appropriate exposure setting.
