The K-x combines a variety of advanced features and user-friendly functions to ensure an outstanding level of photographic performance within a compact, lightweight body. The K-x design is based on the award winning Pentax K-m, an entry-class digital SLR camera launched in October 2008 that gained popularity for its compact, lightweight body and simple, user-friendly operation. The K-x features a high performance CMOS image sensor and an upgraded filter function. It also features a whole host of advanced features and such as live view shooting and movie recording, approximately 12.4 megapixels and high-speed continuous shooting. The K-x is the perfect camera for first-time digital SLR camera users, as well as an ideal backup camera for more experienced photographers.

• Approximately 12.4 effective megapixels for true-to-life image reproduction
  The K-x incorporates a newly developed CMOS image sensor to assure high speed image data read-out at varying ISO sensitivity levels. With approximately 12.4 effective megapixels, this image sensor can reproduce true-to-life images with fine detail and rich depth of colors. The K-x also offers a wide sensitivity range between ISO 200 and ISO 6400 and allows the user to expand the sensitivity range between ISO 100 and ISO 12800 via a custom function, giving greater creative freedom.
• High-performance, high speed Prime (Pentax real image engine) II imaging engine
  Thanks to the technologies supplied by Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited, this imaging engine offers greater data processing speed and enhanced capability to produce higher-quality images with richer, more accurate color rendition, as well as faster transmission speed of movie data.
• Compact, lightweight body
  Despite the incorporation of the large 23.6mm x 15.8mm image sensor, the K-x is one of the most compact, lightweight digital SLR cameras in its class.
• Live view function, with face detection of up to 16 faces
  The K-x features a live view function, which allows the user to view the image on its LCD monitor during shooting. The K-x also offers a choice of three different focusing modes during live view shooting: Contrast AF, which optimizes the focus based on the subject's contrast; Face Detection AF, which automatically detects up to 16 faces, selects the main subject's face from multiple faces, then captures it in sharp focus; and Phase Difference AF, which uses the AF sensor positioned in the camera body to optimize focus on the subject.
• High quality recording at 1280 x 720 pixels, with HDTV-proportion movie recording at 24 frames per second
  The K-x provides a movie recording function which captures beautiful, true-to-life movie clips in 16:9 high definition TV proportions (1280 x 720 pixels) at a frame rate of 24 frames per second. This extends the benefits of high quality SLR photography to the world of movie shooting.
• Pentax-original SR mechanism for sharp, blur-free images
  The K-x features the Pentax-developed SR (Shake Reduction) mechanism. This innovative mechanism extends its benefits to almost all Pentax interchangeable lenses - even those designed for film-format cameras. Thanks to this mechanism, the K-x produces sharp, blur-free images even under demanding conditions prone to camera shake, such as when using a telephoto lens, shooting in the dark without a flash illumination, and taking pictures of sunset scenes.
• High speed continuous shooting at approximately 4.7 images per second
  The K-x's high speed continuous shooting mode records as many as 17 images (in JPEG recording format) at a maximum speed of approximately 4.7 images per second - the fastest of all entry-class models. The K-x also features a reliable shutter unit, which proved its dependability and ruggedness through a demanding action test of more than 100,000 shutter releases. Its top shutter speed of 1/6000 second allows the photographer to preserve sharp, crisp images of fast-moving subjects.
• Digital filter function
  The K-x's digital filter function allows the user to process recorded images in a variety of creative ways within the camera and produce highly creative visual expressions. With a choice of 16 different filters, the user can even apply different filters one after another to a single image to create more personalized visual effects.
• Cross process mode
  The K-x features the cross process mode, in which the camera automatically and randomly shifts photographic parameters for each exposure to create eyecatching images with unique, fanciful colors - just like pictures treated with the cross process in film photography.
• High precision 11-point AF sensor
  The K-x's high precision, wide-frame SAFOX VIII autofocus system features 11 sensor points (with nine cross-type sensors positioned in the middle) to automatically capture even off-centered subjects in sharp, crisp focus. The photographer can also select one of the sensors as a focusing point to accommodate specialized applications.

Added on October 21, 2010