Pentax K20D Review

Having risked getting larboard abaft by the acceleration at which the 'affordable' DSLR bazaar developed, Pentax showed how austere its intentions were with the K10D, a semi-pro-level DSLR with a appearance account to apprehensive the antagonism at a actual adorable price. Having added so abounding accretion and whistles to the K10D, it's not abundant of a abruptness to acquisition that its successor, the K20D, is about a clarification of the aforementioned design. But, even admitting it can't absolutely avowal the aforementioned novel-feature-count as its predecessor, the K20D still finds allowance for some absorbing changes.

The stand-out affection of the K20D is assuredly its 14.6MP CMOS sensor, co-developed with the behemothic South Korean amassed Samsung. The companies affirmation the architecture reduces the bulk of dent about anniversary photosite, alms a agnate light-sensitive area, per pixel, to a 12MP dent of accepted design. The added above change is the accession of a live-view approach that provides a zoomable, reside examination anon from the imaging sensor.

Pentax has aswell tweaked the absence settings of the camera's JPEG achievement (our better ache about the K10D), so does the K20D action abundant to play with the big boys?

Key feature changes

The feature changes between the K10D and K20D are subtle but this is mainly because there was little that the K10D needed adding to its pretty formidable features list. The changes that have been made are:

• 14.6 megapixel CMOS sensor
• Live view mode
• 2.7 inch 230,000 dot LCD (up from 2.5 in. 210,000)
• Burst mode, allows 21fps shooting at 1.6MP resolution (up to 115 frames)
• Dynamic range expansion mode
• X-sync flash socket
• Image parameter settings (Custom image), enhanced
• Color adjustable LCD monitor
• Compare mode in playback
• 32x zoom in playback
• Adjustable levels of High ISO noise reduction
• Senstivities up to ISO 3200 (extendable to 6400), rather than ISO 1600
• Dust alert for locating particles on the sensor
• Pixel mapping to identify and correct for dead pixels
• AF fine-tuning (for all lenses or up to 20 chosen lenses)