Pentax Tempts Upgraders With 52x Zoom Budget Bridge Camera — forbes.com

Following hot on the heels from the recent announcement by Panasonic Panasonic of the very impressive Lumix DMC FZ-1000, Pentax has today announced the new XG-1 bridge camera to replace its old X5 model and it looks like offering plenty of value at the budget end of the market. Cheekily usurping Fujifilm’s X-range nomenclature, the new model offers a backlit 16-megapixel CMOS sensor coupled with a 52x optical zoom lens with a 24-1248mm range and a maximum aperture of f2.8. Unlike the new and far more expensive Panasonic camera the XG-1 only has a 2/3-inch sensor so it won’t be offering quite the same sort of image quality or the 4K video resolution. The maximum sensitivity of ISO 3200 won’t be setting too many hearts fluttering either.

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