Pentax Power Zoom Explained

Pentax DSLR's which support SDM autofocus also supports power zoom to some extent as explained in the link below.


Pentax Power Zoom

[flyer]

Most modes don't actually work on Pentax digital cameras. Just the motorized zoom works with those.

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But that should work with a firmeware update.
But we don´t have that

[falconeye]

Originally Posted by Ole

Pentax DSLR's which support SDM autofocus also supports power zoom to some extent as explained in the link below.

This information needs clarification as it is not correct.

I checked various manuals to derive that the following bodies sporting SDM do or do not support powerzoom:

• K100D Super: no
• K110D: no
• K10D: yes
• K10D GP: yes
• K20D: yes
• K200D: no
• K2000: no
• K-m: no
• K-7: yes
• K-x: no

I just purchased a powerzoom only to find out it doesn't work on a K-m... (and yes, I found out later on that it is specified powerzoom doesn't work with K-m; Pentax dropped the feature!)


It is important to note that powerzoom is avaliable with movie recording (K-7). BTW, for dSLR video this may only be possible in Pentax mount ...