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Digital SLR Cameras: K-m

K-m

The PENTAX K-m made me a talented photographer the moment I took it in my hand!

New Auto Picture mode

The PENTAX K-m’s automatic shooting-mode selection lets you capture the color and ambience faithfully and vibrantly, regardless of subject or scene

Professional-level skills are required to faithfully and beautifully reproduce the subject or scene before you. PENTAX’s Picture modes are designed to make such skills available to inexperienced photographers. The PENTAX K-m’s New Auto Picture mode takes it a step further, as it automatically selects the most appropriate Picture mode for a given subject or scene and adjusts all essential photographic factors — including the detection of the subject’s movement, the degree of blurring in the background, the choice of autofocus mode, and the selection of the finishing touch affecting colors and ambience.** Thanks to this advanced, user-friendly shooting mode, you can capture a professional-quality image with a single push of the shutter-release button.

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The PENTAX K-m New Auto Picture mode may fail to select a proper shooting mode for some subjects or scenes.

Point the lens at the subject and press the shutter-release button, and the PENTAX K-m does all the rest for you!

Simple dial control for manual selection of Picture modes

When you wish to manually select one of the Picture modes, simply turn the camera's mode dial to the corresponding position. You can even choose the Standard Flash-off mode, which is not available with the New Auto Picture mode.

Scene (SCN) modes

Scene-specific modes to express particular atmospheres

Even when photographing the same scenery, you may want to express it with different tones to make a distinction between a daytime image and a sunset image. The PENTAX K-m's Scene modes are programmed to automatically adjust camera settings for your choice of Scene mode. The PENTAX K-m even features new Stage Lighting and Night Snap modes*** to expand the range of choice. Whether a musical recital or a family trip, the Scene modes capture all your memories beautifully and vibrantly.

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The number of recording pixels is fixed at 2.0 megapixels in the Stage Light and Night Snap modes.

Scene modes: Stage Lighting, Food, Pet, Night Snap, Kids, Sunset, Night Scene, Museum, Candlelight, Surf & Snow

Dynamic-range expansion

Natural, true-to-life images reproduced through effective compensation of highlights and shadows

Washed-out areas in an image are caused by harsh light, which affects the camera's ability to faithfully reproduce colors and gradations. The PENTAX K-m's dynamic-range expansion function collects a greater range of image data by expanding the dynamic range**** and assists you in reproducing natural, true-to-life images by accurately expressing subtle differences in color and gradation.

**** The ISO sensitivity range is automatically switched to ISO 200 to ISO 3200.

Shadow compensation

You may be sometimes disappointed with a recorded image because its shadow areas are pitch-black and without detail, even if their details were clearly identifiable to the naked eye during shooting. The PENTAX K-m offers a shadow compensation function, which helps to prevent this problem by weakening the image's contrast and brightening the shadow areas in difficult lighting conditions, such as a portrait with a substantial brightness difference, or a flash image with a dark background.

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