Hot! Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera coming soon?
Our friends over at Digiaminfo got the first (exciting!) specs about the possible new Pentax mirrorless camera:
- Pentax new mirrorless camera will be announced by CP + in February.
- The name is K-01
- K-mount!
- Black & white body color (black keynote), white and black (white tone), black and yellow (based on black and white, yellow leather) three different colors.
- The sensor is the same spec K-5 (Click here to see that camera). And same rear LCD.
- Full HD video
- Shutter speed to 1 / 4000 p to 30 seconds
- Contrast AF, AF 81 Split
- Built-in pop-up flash
- 121mm width, 79mm height, 59mm depth
- 560g in weight with battery
- designed by the designer who designed talby from au (i.e. Japanese mobile phone sold in 2004)
- it looks more like Optio than K series; not like GXR
- comes with a new lens: DA 40mm F2.8XS
- three lens kits with DA40XS and lenses already on market
- mirrorless but whether there is an EVF or it is built in is not revealed
I hope my japanese readers can provide send me a better translation than Google soon 
That camera could be a real dealbreaker!
SF
2 years ago |Don’t get the point of this. It will be a K-r sized camera with EVF and C-AF, so what for? Short flange distance is better for mirrorless cameras. It gives you the possibility to go very small and use your K-lenses with an adapter. This solution is nothing but an internal adapter with a lot of wasted space.
Camaman
2 years ago |So how fast do you think AF is gonna be on those old lenses…?
Don
2 years ago |so they keep compatibility with the old lenses, but new k-01 only lenses come out with part of the lenses recessed into the camera body to keep the system as small or smaller than the competition..
the kmount, was designed for ff so it would be easy enough to use smaller lens elements that would slide the rear of the lens right inside the k-01.
sam Waldron
2 years ago |560 grams without lens… ummmm.
Alcides
2 years ago |Maybe we’re going to see finally this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EO9piAKCkcU/TO25dQE6NSI/AAAAAAAAGdA/Nzro6wDF7S8/s1600/prototype.jpg
Chris
2 years ago |I really hope we are going to see what the specs promise.
I really don’t hope it looks like the picture you showed us. Looks kind of like an optio but really ugly for my taste and possibly not with very good ergonimics.
Matt
2 years ago |Sound to me like a replacement for the K-r rather than a ‘new system’. K-x/K-r were already some of the smaller SLRs, looks like they are just taking the concept a little further. There is no reason with the standard registration distance that they can’t have PDAF while losing the crappy pentamirror OVF and at the same time making the body smaller.
Hal
2 years ago |Great idea.
No mirror box means no vibrations to rob sharpness, especially at slower shutter speeds or with longer lenses.
No mirror box should mean a reduced cost to buyers as the Mirror Box is an expensive component.
No mirror box means that the view will be 100% of what the sensor sees.
No mirror box should allow for increased frame rates – great for sports.
Deeper body to conform to K mount means that the body will be more stable when longer lenses are mounted on it.
No mirror box means using an EVF which means that manual focus can be improved electronically – like Sony did on the Nex 7.
Having a deeper body could help keep internal electronics cooler.
No mirror box should mean longer battery life. Charging the mirror at every shot take a lot of juice.
It sounds like a win win. Great sports camera for sports shooters and Soccer Moms. Same sensor as K5 but possibly with improvements means great low light camera – for say Concerts and stage performances.
Great to see Ricoh thinking outside the box by using the K-mount and a slightly thicker body. More choice for buyers….
Random Poster
2 years ago |K-r without prism. Not a bad idea at all. OVF is so yester-millenia. EVF and LV are the future.
Ryan
2 years ago |The specification is okay, not very outstanding. However, let’s keep in mind that Pentax is a part of Ricoh now. The images from Ricoh GXR and its various modules are very appealing in terms of color rendering. Ricoh’s Black & white tone is so great. I do hope that Pentax’s processor will get something from Ricoh. This would be very exciting.
Raist3d
2 years ago |On a first pass that sounds good – depending on price. I am actually glad they kept at 16 MP instead of going for the 24 MP sensor – unless you shoot landscape, it’s a workflow clog. I rather have them remove the AA filter and keep the 16 MP sensor.
The question I have on this camera though is – ergonomics. And also speed of AF.
- Raist
Don
2 years ago |ok? have you seen the dx0 scores on the competition? Pentax put the k5 sensor in this thing!
go to dxo labs and test the k-5′s score against ALL the current evil and m4/3 class cams!
the new pentax will be the best performing Evil class cam to date!
Zachery
2 years ago |Well, the new Fuji hasn’t been tested yet. If their claims are lived up to, it will beat the K-5. I still have my doubts. Also keep in mind the K-5 is only marginally above the D7000.
gabriel
2 years ago |How to make a evil camera with a Pentax ? Take a K5, rip off the mirror eat the OVF, and put all the electronics in a box made by a well know designer. Not a bad idea at all
Silvio
2 years ago |Wow, K5 sensor and mirrorless. Hot, hot, hot! This will be a very fun camera, can’t wait.
Daemonius
2 years ago |Like we need another APS-C mirrorless camera..
Can someone grow a pair and make full-frame finaly?
Rhboks
2 years ago |We need no aps-c mirrorless we need full frame or bigger sensors, what make sense is a full frame 6×7 sensor with a digital mamiya body 67.
Such a sensor must have the follow dimensions 56mm x 70mm with 60 mp and an iso range from 50 till 6400. The camera body the same as the mamiya 67 with the same lenses.
Jabba
2 years ago |Um can somebody please do this with an articulated LCD on the back, I can’t go back to the LCD glued to the back of the body.
alvin bartolome
2 years ago |yeah a swiveling lcd would be handy.
a k-r in a MILC system is great, but i am still lovin’ my k-r!
Andrew Munster
9 months ago |its more like a mirrorless version of the k30 it is not wr and it has mic in.