Dear Pentaxians,
I stumbled on this site today. I guess it is written in Russian, I am told, and I can't read the captions, but the pictures speak for themselves. I posted some of them here but you can see the entire article and pictures by visiting the site below. It's pretty informative. The site is : http://www.kroupski.ru/photo/Pentax-K20D-UAE.htm
You can actually use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and paste the above site in the appropriate box and select translation from Russian to English. It's a little rough but accurate.
Of course all the pictures are copyrighted by kroupski.eu
Here are some of the pictures.
Thanks for looking,
Yvon Bourque
6 comments:
Thanks for having such a great blog. I hope someone can tell us what the website says. The photo's look awesome.
I tried to incorporate Bable Fish translation link but they do not transalte Arabic to English. Too bad, I too would like to read the blog.
Someone, somewhere must be able to translate!
Thank you for reading and commenting,
Yvon Bourque
Seriously, people.
The site has a .ru domain and is written in Cyrillic. Arabic?
Thiago,
I believe you, I thought that Arabic was spoken on the blog. Still, maybe you can help translate! You can even translate and send to my email and I will post the translation here with credits to you. How about it?
It's russian. It's not quite correct to say it's a "cyrillic website" because in the same vein we could call this blog here a "lating blog".
Anyway, the text itself isn't all that informative. In the beginning they lament about consumers wanting to have more megapixels and that slogans "less noise in higher ISO" doesn't say anything to the regular Joe.
briefly:
They confirm that K20D uses same SAFOX VIII as K10D. In answer to the question about implementing contrast AF Yasuyuki Maekawa from Pentax strategic planning (?) dept. said that they might be looking into that for future models.
20 fps is acieved electronically, without flipping the shutter. Each frame is saved as separate image.
IS is claimed to help up to 4 stops and while not explicitly stated one can assume that those night cityscape photos (below sandsurfing) have been taken without tripod.
Dust reduction can be set from the menu to activate every time the camera is turned on.
One can examine two shots side by side on display.
All participants noticed that camera underexposed constantly so they ended up using +0,5EV. They were told this will be fixed in final firmware.
Bookmal is correct, that site is written in Russian. Sorry for doing that (I am an author :)
You may use something like
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kroupski.ru%2Fphoto%2FPentax-K20D-UAE.htm&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
...which lets you understand probably 99% of the material.
Night shots indeed were taken hand-held with shutter speeds up (down?) to 1 sec (not every attempt was sharp, of course).
Thank you!
Dimitri Kroupski
St.Petersburg,
Russia
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