The Pentax K-7 incorporates all of what was best about their long-underrated line of digital SLRs with a bunch of upgrades and enhancements that should make camera customers stand up straight and pay attention. Indeed, the launch of the Pentax K-7 may be an outlining moment for Pentax, whose camera business goes back to 1952. Pronounced in 2003, Pentax's early digital SLRs were sophisticated for their day, but were troubled by a weird naming convention that kept them out of the conventional unjustly, until just recently, when cameras like the K100D, K10D, and their inheritors invoked the name of the mythical K1000 film camera whose life spanned thirty years of Pentax history.

Though the Pentax K-7's predecessor, the K20D, is an able and sophisticated digital SLR, the K-7 makes a quantum jump, meeting the requirements of a large range of photographers who do not even know they require what the K7 offers. The Pentax K7 also stands to make praise from the Pentax fan base thanks to its new body design. Where the K20D was giant and clumsy, the K-7 is tiny and tight - something many people missed from the beginning. The list of enhancements in the Pentax K-7 defies our capability to sharply summarise them with 1 or 2 paragraphs or phrases, so it is suggested that you scanned the full review to understand the breadth of what the K-7 offers. Enhancements include a fortified framework and body design, a totally reworked sensor, an enhanced refresh rate of 5.2 frames per second, the power to capture HD pictures at thirty frames per second, and an HDMI port to match.

The Pentax K-7's 77-segment metering system alter the old 16-segment design, and a 3-inch LCD with 921,000 pixels will sincerely please you, matching the best technology in contemporary competing designs. Another, more revolutionary features include an Electronic Level function, which uses the Pentax K7's unique image stabilization system to actually revolve the sensor by and/or minus one degree to keep horizon lines straight.

You may even shift the sensor left, right, up, and down to tune your image with the Pentax K7 mounted on a tripod with the Composition Adjustment feature, a singular use of sensor-shift image stabilization technology. As I say, there's lots of detail that defies simple encapsulation into one or two selling slogans, so our only concern for Pentax is that once more their glorious digital SLRs and superb-quality lenses will be missed by the masses that will not make an effort to do their research into why a Pentax camera might be a reasonable alternative.