Review of Pentax K-x

The Pentax K-x is digital single lens reflex camera popularly known as DSLR camera. The Pentax K-x is stylish and trendy DSLR camera. Normally, DSLR cameras don’t have choice of colors, but in Pentax K-x series camera you get choice of colors. K-x is available in green, bright blue, orange, purple, white, navy blue, red and black in the market. Eight colors and trendy design is a key feature of the Pentax K-x. Furthermore, 12.4 mega pixels image sensor are embedded in the camera for getting crystal clear images in low light as well. 2.7 –inches wide and vivid screen gives better visibility of the frame.

Look and feel of the Pentax K-x:

The Pentax K-x is compact light weight Digital SLR camera. It weighs just around 5 pounds. You can buy lens with the kit or you can buy the lens separately. With the kit you get standard lens of 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 AL which is sufficient for the normal HD photography. But if you wish to take more enhanced quality photos then get number of option in the market. The display screen is 2.7-inches wide diagonally. The screen viewing angle is 170 degree. Also, it has face detection and live view facility. You get eight different color options in the camera. It is only DSLR camera available in the market with choice of some many colors. You can have green, bright blue, orange, purple, white, navy blue, red and black colors in the camera. Thus the Pentax K-x is stylish and beautiful DSLR camera.

Features of the Pentax K-x:

The features of the Pentax K-x are so designed that improves the quality of the photo. let us discuss them one by one.

• Image senor:

The 12.4-inches image sensor is embedded in the camera. The CMOS image sensor is best sensor available in a market and it gives you best quality of the final images. The resolution of snapshot is improved by the CMOS sensor. Compensation of light in the photo, eliminating noise from the photo, avoiding grainy image and optimizing the resolution are the tasks carried out by the image sensor. Furthermore this sensor reduces the blurry effect in the photo due to intense vibration at the time of the shooting. Therefore you get optimum image quality that is noticeable when you enlarge the snapshot.

• Image processor:

The PRIME II is an advanced image processing engine used in the Pentax’s K-x DSLR cameras. PRIME II is developed by Fujitsu microelectronics. The PRIME II is stands for PENTAX Real Image Engine II image processor. The speed of the processing of an image is prime requirement of any image processor. And, the K-X processes an image at great clarity and delivers a rich toned color quality of your image. The Pentax K-x records HD video and processing of those videos is also taken by the PRIME image processor engine only. Thus you get optimum quality images with astonishing color enhancement.

• ISO sensitivity:

If you want to take images in almost no light condition then here is an option of ISO setting for you. This setting can take images in almost complete darkness. For example a cake having lighted candle and placed in dark room or snaps of the stars. This image is hard to capture by normal camera but with this DSLR camera it is easily captured without degrading the quality of the image. The sensitivity of an ISO varies from 100 to 12800.

Verdict:

The Pentax K-x is a beautiful eye-catchy, compact, light-weight and sturdy DSLR camera. It comes with 12.4-mega pixel CMOS image sensor with vibration reduction technique and HDR image capture. There is option of video recording as well. The Pentax K-x is rated as 4.5/5. You can buy this HD DSLR camera at 649 USD only.