Ricoh Imaging Co. announced that it will launch a new compact lightweight D-SLR camera, the Pentax K-S1, from late September. The camera features a userfriendly interface to attract midlevel customers who are used to a mobile interface and is looking for something similar in a D-SLR. Operation is carried out with a back-lit LED selection dial, four-way navigation and a 3-inch LCD without the knobs and buttons found on traditional SLRs.
The KS1 has a 20MP CMOS sensor without optical low-pass filter, a high speed image processing engine called ‘Prime MII’, built-in shake reduction, highspeed AF utilizing SAFOX Ixi+ sensor and a shutter speed of up to 1/6000 sec allowing a maximum of 5.4fps sequential shots.
