Custom images to convey creative intentions
with distinctive finishing touches

Custom images allow you to better reach your creative goals by adjusting the image's color scheme and liveliness. The K-7 features a new mode called Faint, which creates a stylish, airy atmosphere with rather subdued colors, while retaining primary color tones. This mode gives you another distinctive tool in creative photography, in addition to the conventional preset modes of Bright, Natural, Portrait, Landscape, Monochrome and Vibrant, which is designed to produce unique, richly colored images.

A wider selection of finishing-touch adjustment options

The finishing touch of each custom-image mode can be further fine-tuned to meet your imaging goals. The K-7 features a new “key” parameter, which lets you shift the image's overall tone toward either the high-key or low-key side. While checking the outcome on the preview image of the LCD monitor, you can adjust eight different parameters, including one for the monochrome mode only, for easy customization of the image.

Digital filters to personalize your recorded images
through distinctive visual effects

Digital filters let you create uniquely individualized visual expressions by adding distinctive visual effects to your images. The K-7 provides a total of 16 different filters, ranging from artistic Watercolor that produces the visual effect of watercolor painting, to newly added Miniature, Fisheye and Base Makeup filters. You can apply these filters as many as 20 times to a single image, check the history of all filter applications, and even recall the results after the application of a particular filter as a separate image on the screen.

Digital filters incorporated in the K-7: Toy Camera, Monochrome,* Retro, Color,* High Contrast, Soft, Color Extraction, Cross, Watercolor,* Fisheye, Pastel,* Slim,* Miniature,* HDR,* Base Makeup,* and Custom.

* These filters can be applied to images only during playback.

Multiple exposure for easy composition of precisely aligned,
properly exposed composite images

This creative mode allows you to create complex composite images without requiring a PC. You can check the emerging composite image on the LCD monitor after each exposure, then make the K-7 automatically adjust the exposure of the final image to a proper level after all exposures have been made. During live-view shooting, the previously recorded image (or a composite image, if multiple images have been taken in the monochrome mode) is displayed as a semitransparent guide on the monitor, allowing you to preview the expected composite image and confirm the composition and relative position of different elements before the subsequent shutter release.

Other image-adjustment-related features

• Choice of two different color spaces: sRGB and Adobe RGB

Expanded bracketing:

In-body RAW-data development and data output interface

The development of RAW-data files normally requires a personal computer, but the K-7 does it all within its body, including fine-tuning and compensation of the developed images. You can even change the aspect ratio (between 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 or 1:1) or trim the image any way you like. The finished work can be filed in the TIFF or JPEG format for transfer and playback on a PC or for viewing on TV.

Responsive, high-speed AF system
to capture once-in-a-lifetime opportunities

Extensive reprogramming of the AF algorithm has resulted in a high-performance AF system in the K-7, with much faster focusing speed. The AF sensor is the sophisticated SAFOX VIII+, which is even capable of detecting the type of light source present. As a result, its focusing accuracy under less common light sources, such as mercury lamps, is also improved. The AF system has 11 sensor points, nine of which are cross-shaped, covering a large part of the image field, while a built-in AF spotbeam projector in the camera body assists autofocusing operation in the dark. It's an AF system that performs superbly with all kinds of subjects and in all lighting conditions.

Continuous shooting of 5.2 images per second to capture active subjects

The PRIME II's high-speed data-processing capacity allows you to keep shooting at a speed of approximately 5.2 images per second in the Hi (high-speed) advance mode — despite having 14.6 effective megapixels. Incorporating a large-capacity buffer, it can capture up to 40 images in a single sequence. ** By switching the advance mode to Lo (low-speed), the advance speed is reduced to approximately 3.3 images per second, but you can keep shooting until the capacity of the SD memory card runs out.** High-speed continuous shooting with the mirror at lock-up position is also possible.

** The number of recordable images in a single sequence, with images recorded at Best image quality in JPEG format. In the RAW (PEF)-format recording, the number is approximately 15 images in the Hi mode or approximately 17 images in the Lo mode.

Intelligent AE system with 77-segment multi-pattern metering
to improve exposure accuracy

When making exposure-control decisions, the K-7's intelligent AE system takes into account such factors as vertical or horizontal image format, distance to the subject and magnification. The new, sophisticated 77-segment metering mode divides the image field into a greater number of segments than conventional multi-segment systems, improving metering accuracy and assuring proper exposure on all subjects. To accommodate different shooting requirements and goals, the K-7 also offers a choice of metering mode from 77-segment multi-pattern metering, center-weighted metering and spot metering.

77-segment multi-pattern metering

This sophisticated metering mode delivers solid exposure-control performance by minimizing the influence of reflectance from confusing subjects — a person wearing pure-white clothes, or a bright point light source such as the sun in backlight. By accurately detecting the subject's position from the in-focus point obtained by the AF system, the AE algorithm assures a perfect exposure balance between the subject and the background, while paying greater attention to the subject's lighting condition.

Other shooting-related features

• Auto bracketing (3 or 5 images selectable) • Built-in auto flash (manual pop-up type; guide number of approximately 13 at ISO 100/m; covers a 28mm angle of view in the 35mm format; discharge level adjustable) • Exposure compensation (±5 EV max.) • AE lock