2022? Best SLR of the Year? I did not write the title wrong. After counting, Pentax KF should be the only SLR camera among the newly released cameras in 2022.
other brands really don’t have it? Can anyone tell me what Pentax is doing? Forced to prolong your life? Let’s briefly talk about Pentax KF first, after all, you can’t even make it complicated even if you want it.
According to the official press release, KF is the successor to the K-70, but judging from the parameters and key layout, it is more like an improved version of the K-70. You know, the release date of K-70 was in June 2016. Six years have passed, and Pentax has released such a thing, hahahahahahaha!
Check out the upgrade point, the screen has been increased from the original 920,000 to 1.04 million, the body has been lighter by 3g, and some color modes have been added. Then the most important part is that black, crystal blue (limited to 700 units), crystal white (limited to 700 units) versions are available, and will be available for sale at the end of November.
Focus and bottom are not changed? Why change it? All lay flat.
If there is no KF logo on the new camera, you will never find the difference between these two cameras. I have to say that if Pentax lasts for a few more years, it should be the South Bay of the SLR camera industry. After years of holding it in, I have made such a thing. Do you treat consumers as fools? Even the official set of promotional materials feels like they are stuck seven or eight years ago.
Although Pentax is still making a living in Japan, I have pulled the data over the past two years and no one has bought the SLR. Going back to the earliest question, why did Pentax still release KF?
I speculate that on the one hand, Pentax has a large amount of KF inventory and modules that have not been assembled. If you don’t change to a new piece of clothing, you can’t sell it even if you lower the price. After all, it’s a thing from 2016, an old antique for SLRs. On the other hand, although Pentax is tasteless for Ricoh , it is a pity to eat. Continue to invest in R&D? Impossible. give up? Fortunately, there is no need to invest any money to support this brand. Just doing this, maybe one day I can cooperate with a mobile phone manufacturer to get a second spring? It can also be regarded as the last glory of the SLR camera.
Pentax brand still has memories for people of my age. You should know that in 1981, Pentax became the first brand with a SLR camera production of over 10 million, and it was also the first brand to launch TTL metering automatic focus SLR cameras. These are all milestone achievements. After that, Pentax went wrong and focused on his energy on PS machines rather than SLRs.
The third princess that everyone hears the most in the second-hand market is Pentax, composed of three lenses with special focal lengths of FA43/1.9 Limited (big princess), FA77/1.8 Limited (second princess) and FA31/1.8 Limited (little princess). It has solid workmanship, sharp inside the focus, natural transition from outside the focus, and has beautiful colors. It has a very high reputation among photography enthusiasts.
The real turning point of Pentax was absorbed and merged by HOYA Co., Ltd. in 2007, and Pentax no longer exists as an independent company. In 2011, Ricoh acquired all Pentax Imaging Systems business under HOYA.
During this period, Pentax once highlighted and launched the first cheap medium-format digital SLR camera 645D. In 2016, the first full-frame DSLR K-1 was released. However, the market has not been done yet and knows to become a supporting role.
Nowadays, when people talk about Pentax, the most talked about is the color matching - the paint factory in the camera industry.
I don’t know how long this brand can live.
Maybe it's dead.
