Digital SLR Cameras: K20D

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PENTAX offers an assortment of optional accessories to further expand the creative world of digital SLR photography. Clip-on-type dedicated flash units, for instance, deliver a more powerful discharge than the camera’s built-in auto flash to accommodate a wider range of advanced flash applications, including a bounce flash technique used to create a softer lighting effect.

Dedicated flash units simplify advanced flash techniques

All three dedicated flash units feature the P-TTL auto flash system, which assures fully automatic operation, even with highly advanced flash applications. With a guide number of 54, 36 and 20 (at ISO 100/m), they offer a flash discharge more powerful than the camera’s built-in auto flash and a discharge-level compensation function, assuring greater flexibility and broader creative possibility in many different situations.

The AF540FGZ and AF360FGZ also offer more advanced flash synchronization modes, such as wireless P-TTL synchronization and high-speed synchronization, as well as an auto-zoom function, which couples the angle of discharge with the lens’ focal length. In addition, their flash head can be tilted to the desired angle of discharge for bounce-flash applications.

Bounce-flash setting with one remote-controlled flash
Since the bounce-flash technique applies soft lighting to the subject, it can produce a very natural, well-balanced image. The addition of one remote-controlled flash unit eliminates the subjects’ shadows, while beautifully exposing the background.

Finder accessories provide better view of the subject

Finder accessories include a magnifier eyecup, which boosts a viewfinder magnification to approximately 1.18 times and a composite magnification to approximately 1.12 times. In addition to the standard focusing screen, the K20D also accepts a pair of optional focusing screens to facilitate specialized applications: AF Cross-Lined Matte is useful in assessing the subject’s alignment and levelness; and AF Scale Matte is ideal for astronomical and documentary applications.

Battery system extends battery life for worry-free shooting

The D-BG2 Battery Grip drastically increases the number of recordable images and improves operability and maneuverability in vertical-position shooting. Its battery magazine offers storage grooves for a memory card and the Remote Controller F, while its dust-proof, water-resistant construction makes it ideal for media storage and image-data protection. The AC Adapter Kit lets you power the K20D from a home power outlet to eliminate the worries about battery shortage, even in extended-exposure applications.

Remote-control system comes handy in capturing close-ups, nightscapes and group shots

Remote-control accessories offer you tremendous convenience when you are concerned with camera shake, or when you wish to join your company. They even let you take a series of images in succession from a distance.

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