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Specifications

PENTAX MX-1 Main Specifications

Lens
smc PENTAX zoom lens, 11 elements in 8roups (4 aspherical elements)
Focal Length 6.0 - 24mm
35mm equivalent focal length 28 - 112mm
Aperture F1.8- F2.5
Zoom
Optical Zoom 4×
Digital Zoom approx. 1.95×
Intelligent Zoom approx. 5.2× at 7M, approx. 7.8× at 3M (including optical zoom)
Motion Blur Reduction
Still Sensor-Shift-Type (SR: Shake Reduction), Dual (SR & Pixel Track SR), High-sensitivity anti-shake mode (Digital SR)
Movie Movie shake reduction mode (Movie SR)
Focus
Type Auto, Spot, Tracking, AF Select (25 Points)
Focus Range (From lens face) Standard:0.4m - infinity (whole zoom area), 1.31 ft - infinity (whole zoom area)
Macro: 0.05 - 0.5m (at wide setting), 0.2 - 0.5m (at tele setting),0.16 - 1.64ft (at wide setting), 0.66 - 1.64ft (at tele setting)
1cm Macro: 0.01 - 0.2m (at wide setting), 0.03 - 0.66ft (at wide setting)
Infinity-landscape, Manual Focus, Pan Focus, AF Point switching: available
Face detection Face Detection AF&AE is available at all mode. 32 people at most. Smile Capture. Blinking Detection.
Pet detection Detect up to 1 pet's face (auto or select from pre-registered three faces)
Number of Effective pixels approx. 12 megapixels
Image Sensor 1/1.7 type CMOS
Number of Recorded pixels
Still JPEG: [4:3]12M,7M,5M,3M [16:9]9M,5M,3M,2M [3:2]10M,6M,4M,2M [1:1]9M,5M,3M,2M RAW (DNG)
Movie 1920, 1280
Sensitivity (Standard Output Sensitivity) Auto, Manual (ISO 100 - 12800)
White Balance Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Fluorescent light(D:Daylight Color, N:Daylight White, W:Cool White, L:Warm White), Tungsten light, Flash, Manual Exposure
Display 3.0-inch tiltable LCD with approx. 920K dots AR Coating(Can be lowered down to approx. 45°or raised upward to approx.90°)
Exposure Control
Metering System Multi-segment metering, Center-weighted metering, Spot metering
Exposure Compensation ±2EV (1/3EV steps)
Scene modes Auto Picture, Green, Movie, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, USER, HDR, Scene modes (Portrait, Flower, Landscape, Blue Sky, Sunset, Night Scene, Handheld Night Snap, Night Scene Portrait, Candlelight, Fireworks, Food, Surf & Snow, Pet, Kids, Sport, Digital SR, Text, Candid Capture, Digital Wide, Digital Panorama, Miniature)
Playback modes Slideshow, Image Rotation, Stretch Filter, Small Face Filter, HDR Filter, Collage, Digital Filter (B&W, Sepia, Toy Camera, Retro, Color, Extract Color, Color Emphasis, High Contrast, Starbust, Soft, Fish-eye, Brightness, Miniature, Slim, Invert Color Filter), RAW Development(Aspect Ratio, JPEG Recorded Pixels, JPEG Quality, Custom Image(Bright, Natural, Vibrant, Reversal Film, Monochrome) White Blance, Sensitivity, Shadow Correction, Distortion Correction), Original Frame, Movie Editing, Red-eye Edit, Resize, Cropping, Image Copy, Protect, DPOF, Start-up Screen
Shutter Speed 1/2000 sec. - 1/4 sec., max. 30 sec. (1/8000 sec. - 30 sec. with Shutter Priority, Manual Exposure, and combination of electronic shutter enabled), Bulb
Built-in flash
Modes Flash-on and Flash-off modes. “Red-eye” reduction function employs a pre-discharge. Low-speed synchro, Low-speed synchro+Red-eye, Trailing Curtain Sync
Flash Range Wide:approx. 0.4 - 12.2 m (ISO Auto) approx. 1.31 - 40 ft (ISO Auto)
Tele:approx. 0.4 - 8.8 m (ISO Auto) approx. 1.31 - 29 ft (ISO Auto)
Drive Modes One shot, Continuous Shooting, Burst Shooting (L/H), Self-timer, Remote Control, Auto Bracketing
Storage Media Built-in memory (approx. 75.3 MB), SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card
Power Source
Rechargeable D-LI106 lithium-ion battery, Optional AC adapter kit is also available
Battery life Still*: Approx. 290 shots (Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery)
Playback**: Approx. 280 min. (Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery)
Interfaces USB2.0 (Hi-Speed): PC/AV terminal, HDMI terminal(Type D)
Video Output NTSC/PAL
Dimensions approx. 122.5 (W) × 60 (H) × 51.5 (D) mm (excluding the operation parts and protrusion.)
approx. 4.8 (W) × 2.4 (H) × 2.0 (D) inches (excluding the operation parts and protrusion. )
Weight
With battery & SD card approx. 391g (loaded and ready)
approx. 13.8 oz.
Body approx. 363g (without battery and SD memory card)
approx. 12.8 oz.

*  Recording capacity shows approximate number of shots recorded during CIPA-compliant testing.
Actual performance may vary depending on operating conditions.

** According to the result of PENTAX in-house testing.

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PENTAX MX-1 Approximate Image Storage Capacity and Recording Time

Approximate Image Storage Capacity

Still 12M[4:3]
(4000×3000)		 10M[3:2]
(3984×2656)		 9M[16:9]
(3968×2232)		 9M[1:1]
(2992×2992)		 7M[4:3]
(3072×2304)		 6M[3:2]
(3072×2048)		 5M[4:3]
(2592×1944)
Image quality RAW Fine Nomal RAW Fine Nomal RAW Fine Nomal RAW Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal
Built-in memory 3 12 25 3 15 30 3 17 34 3 17 34 20 47 25 47 30 58
2GB 82 326 653 86 391 778 88 435 865 88 435 865 516 1205 653 1205 778 1499
Still 5M[16:9]
(3072×1728)		 5M[1:1]
(2304×2304)		 4M[3:2]
(2592×1728)		 3M[4:3]
(2048×1536)		 3M[16:9]
(2560×1440)		 3M[1:1]
(1936×1936)		 2M[3:2]
(2016×1344)		 2M[16:9]
(2048×1152)		 2M[1:1]
(1536×1536)
Image quality Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal Fine Nomal
Built-in memory 25 58 25 58 30 76 47 94 38 76 38 76 47 126 47 126 76 126
2GB 653 1499 653 1499 778 1921 1205 2364 975 1921 975 1921 1205 3235 1205 3235 1921 3235

Approximate Recording Time

Movie 1920
(1920×1080)		 1280
(1280×720)
No. of Frames 30fps 60fps 30fps
Built-in memory 27sec. 36sec. 44sec.
2GB 16min.20sec. 16min.29sec. 25min.58sec.

● RAW shows the image storage capacity when JPEG Quality is Fine.
※ The maximum length is 25 minutes for movie.
※ The maximum length is 15 sec for High Speed Movie mode.

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