If you’re looking for a new dSLR camera, most people will tell you to go for Nikon or Canon. For so many years, there are virtually no other brands more associated with digital cameras (particularly dSLRs) than those two. That was before the Pentax K10D entered the market in September 2006. That was the first effort by Sony Pentax to break the dominance of those two in the dSLR camera market. Now, around 4 years later, Pentax has finally released a product that is worthy of being called “a serious competitor” to those two. That product is Pentax K5.

Pentax K5 is designed with K7 (one of Pentax’s flagship products) as the base. As such, it inherits the reliability, ease of use, and advanced features of its predecessor. However, the Pentax K5 is refined in terms of autofocus and image quality at higher ISOs. The result is simply magnificent! Some unbiased Pentax K5 reviews on the internet even show that it outperforms the more famous Nikon D70, Canon 7D and Canon 60D in certain areas (i.e. color depth, low-light ISO and dynamic range).

The Pentax dSLR K5 is equipped with a 16.3 MP low-noise CMOS image sensor, an improved autofocus system, faster continuous shooting (7 frames per second), and Full HD 1080p video recording capability (with a maximum video resolution of 1536 x 1024 pixels). However, the two most amazing features of this camera are its ability to shoot at ISO 51200 (the highest ever in a dSLR camera) and the fact that its sensor is simply the best APS-C (comparable even to the high-end full-end). framing cameras, to some extent).

The weakness that most distracted the Pentax K7 was its poor high ISO performance. However, the engineers behind the development of the Pentax K5 have worked hard to improve this weakness. The result is amazing. K5 outperforms K7 obviously and consistently. A recent test reveals that K5 shows very good SNR at ISO 1600 (even better than K7’s point at ISO 800). Since this weakness has been fixed, there is less reason not to choose this dSLR camera over the two big ones.

All in all, if you’re thinking of upgrading your dSLR camera or choosing your first professional dSLR camera, you should seriously consider buying a Pentax K5.