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Canon cashback and bargains galore

Crave From Canon cashback to Pentax purchases, bargains, discounts, deals and steals: we got 'em. Pentax will offer £30 cashback on the newly announced Pentax K-m entry-level dSLR. With the dust settled on Photokina, there's been a whole raft of dSLRs...

1 October 2008, 13:15

Pentax K-m, Eye-Fi, Lensbaby, Seitz, Minox spy cameras, Hasselblad, Kodak and the rest round out Photokina

Crave As clever as the new Pentax DA 60-250mm F4 ED IF SDM may well be, it just doesn't sound as cool as Lensbaby's new offerings: the Composer, the Muse and the Control Freak. Let's start with the ugly: the Pentax K-m is a perfectly acceptable entry...

26 September 2008, 11:55

Pentax K-m: 10-megapixel dSLR with cashback

Crave First up today is the Pentax K-m, an entry-level 10-megapixel dSLR. And lo, this means you don't need stabilised lenses and so can use almost any existing Pentax glass. There's a five-point autofocus system and a burst mode that Pentax claims...

22 September 2008, 10:30

Pentax Optio M60 and E60: 10 megapixels for dummies

Crave Joining the recently announced waterproof W60 are two new Pentax Optio models, the E60 (pictured left) and M60 (right). Both cameras are straight out of the entry-level drawer, and clock in at less than a telycost.

Tags: pentax, optical, megapixel, entry

30 July 2008, 9:59

Video reviews round-up: Gadgets over footie

Crave On the dSLR side, the Pentax K20D video review shows off the camera's excellent build quality. In the immortal words of Hank Williams Jr, are you ready for some football? While Hank Jr wasn't referring to real football of course, he still makes a...

Tags: lcd, sports, football, inches

9 June 2008, 10:16

Hands-on with the Pentax Optio V20: Fluorescent adolescent

Crave Yet we were still weren't prepared for this morning, when the Pentax Optio V20 slouched into Crave, took one sulky look around and planted itself into a seat in the corner, dirty trainers on the table.

Tags: pentax, detection, icons, corner

3 June 2008, 10:39

Hands-on with the Pentax K200D: Fanfare for the common man

Crave We like the Pentax K100D an awful lot. So the K200D, Pentax's latest dSLR for the common man -- and woman -- has a lot to live up to. It has a through the lens (TTL) 11-point autofocus system and supports Pentax K, KA, KAF and KAF2-mount lenses.

Tags: pentax, resolution, colour, memory card

4 April 2008, 10:51

Hands-on with the Pentax Optio A40: 12-megapixel pet

Crave There's just something cuddly and lovable about the Pentax Optio range of compact cameras. Yesterday we were introduced to the new Optio V20, and today we take a closer look at the Pentax Optio A40. It's at the top end of Pentax's friendly Optio...

19 March 2008, 10:40

Pentax Optio V20: Affordable compact raises the game

Crave The Pentax Optio V20 is an 8-megapixel point-and-shoot. Bigger screens are also hot right now, and if cuddly Pentax with its friendly green modes -- photography for dummies -- and budget prices is sticking them in its affable compacts, maybe bigger...

Tags: pentax, compact, screens, zoom

18 March 2008, 11:22

Crave Talk: 32GB SDHC to kill CompactFlash?

Crave Realising the creeping ubiquity of the SD format, Pentax's new K20D and Samsung's new GX20 support SD and SDHC. Memories are made of.what? Memory needs to be reliable yet invisible, and it's never glamorous.

Tags: panasonic, disc, shots, compactflash

29 February 2008, 13:44

Fujifilm S100FS, Olympus 1030 SW, GE G2 and E1050, Sony DSC-T300 and Sigma DP1 from PMA

Crave It also includes the interesting tilting screen design we also saw on the Pentax and Samsung dSLRs announced before PMA, although here it's a 64mm (2.5-inch) version. PMA 2008 is over for another year, and judging by the flood of new cameras...

4 February 2008, 13:54

Pentax K20D and K200D, and Samsung GX20: dSLR dNA

Crave Pentax and Samsung have been dSLR-developing bedfellows since October 2005, and the latest fruit of their loins have been born at PMA 2008. The Pentax K20D -- pictured above -- and K200D, and the Samsung GX-20 may have different badges on the front...

1 February 2008, 11:05

Cameras and camcorders go HD-crazy at CES 2008

Crave The rumour mill is spinning in overdrive regarding suggestions that Pentax is planning to announce two new SLR models, the K20D and K200D. Pentax has a presence at CES, and we're not sure if it will want the new models drowned in the noise there...

Tags: pentax, models, ces, memory card

20 December 2007, 9:21

Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung GX-10

Crave Whisper it, but the GX-10 is a re-badged Pentax K10D. Ah, Christmas. A time of goodwill; a time of rejoicing in the simple pleasures of human company; a time of love. And a time of half-crazed shoppers who'll climb over your trampled body for a...

11 December 2007, 10:01

Crazy cameras: Seven strange snappers

Crave Enter the Pentax EI-C90, debuted at PMA 1996, marketed from July 1997, and featuring a detachable screen module. We know they have a sense of humour: just look at the tiny internal memories they slap in our compacts!

20 November 2007, 8:14