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Review Summary
2013-10-13T21:00:00
I bought this camera as a replacement for a K100D, and have been mostly pleased with it. 6fps is great when trying to capture moving subjects, and the autofocus speed is much improved over the K100D. The AF accuracy is another issue, and the reason for the lower rating. I find that if I want focus to be accurate, and to my standards, manual focusing is the way.
Meep70
2012-03-25T21:00:00
Great camera for the money, easy to use.
GENE H.

Standard practice in professional editorial assignments is to vary the style, scale and lighting, so that the total take looks rich and varied and gives the art director different material to work with.
The Pentax K-r Digital SLR Camera Body is that lightweight, mid-range 12.4MP digital SLR camera that also shoots dazzling 720p HD video that you've been looking for. It's got a few other things going for it, too-like a high resolution 3" LCD display with 930,000 dots, up to 6 frames per second shooting speed, super-accurate 11-point autofocus system, sensitivity up to 25,600 ISO so you never miss a photo due to low light, shutter speeds up to 1/6000 second to freeze the action and dual power options, either rechargeable Li-ion or easy-to-find AA batteries.
That's not all: the K-r has an efficient dust removal mechanism that automatically shakes dust off the CMOS sensor, a custom image function for applying one of nine creative modes (such as Bleach Bypass, a dramatic effect used in movies) to any particular image you wish, a digital filter function with a choice of 18 filters to process images without a computer (including Starburst, Sketch, High Contrast, Fisheye, Toy Camera, Posterization, Retro, etc.), an upgraded HDR (High Dynamic Range) function to create a superb image in difficult lighting situations (by combining 3 different exposures of the same scene) even without using a tripod and 3 different cross processing options to create dramatically different colors. It even has a high-speed infrared data transmission system-the first in a Pentax camera.
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