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WHEN I first studied photography at school in the late 1970s the SLR camera of choice was the Pentax K1000, a robust manual workhorse that sold for a reasonable price. Thirty years later Pentax is aiming for the same serious-amateur market with the 6.1-megapixel K100D Super digital SLR. Like the K1000, it is quite robust, has manual controls -- though it also has all the auto options you'd expect on a modern digital camera -- and is reasonably priced. Pentax SLRs have lost a lot of ground over the years to Canon and Nikon, so the price has to be good. At retail, you can expect to get the body for about $650. This is much more affordable than the nearest Canon model, the 8.2-megapixel EOS 30D, that sells for about $1400. But apples for apples, it's up against the 6.1-megapixel Nikon D40, priced at about $750.
Pentax to seek damages on Matsushita battery delay
TOKYO, Oct 29 - Japan's Pentax Corp said it is considering seeking damages from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd over a delay in the launch of its new digital camera due to a supply disruption caused by Matsushita's lithium-ion battery plant. .
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Hoya Q2 profit down on memory disks, LCD equipment
TOKYO, Oct 29 - Hoya Corp posted a 4.5 percent fall in quarterly operating profit, hit by sluggish sales of liquid crystal display-making equipment and a delay in the production of advanced glass disks used in hard disk drives. Hoya, which acquired digital camera and medical equipment maker Pentax Corp earlier this year, benefited from brisk sales of optical lenses for digital cameras and higher sales of glass used in the production of semiconductors. .
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