Digital Home Thoughts: Pentax K20D Hands On Preview

"Pentax has announced it's new enthusiast level DSLR, the Pentax K20D, set to replace the K10D of 2007. Like that camera, the camera is the result of a collaboration with Korean electronic Samsung. We are told that the electronics are produced by Samsung, while design and camera know-how comes from Pentax. As with the K10D, Samsung has also announced an almost identical model, the GX20. I recently joined Pentax at the cameras launch in Dubai and spent a couple of days using a pre-production model. While this camera is pretty much the final version, there will probably be final firmware updates before the final release, so we can't give a full review at this time."

Pentax has produced a solid mid range camera with many features a densely populated, class beating CMOS sensor which would surely give it an edge. Unfortunately, it appears to suffer from inaccurate metering. The price of £899 looks quite nice too. Personally, I have never played with a Pentax DSLR but I am not really blown away by the sample shots in the article. They don't seem to pop in terms of color and contrast, and instead seem to be a bit noisy. Hmm, maybe it is the subject matter?