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This awfully gaudy contraption of a camera, called the Asahi Pentax LX Gold, is reportedly the world’s first water-proof and dust-resistant SLR camera made by Pentax. We’ll have to excuse its appearance as it is a 60th anniversary model for the company and probably more a collectors item than something we’d all be rushing out for this holiday season. Whether there is any actual gold or if it is even a DSLR is unclear. According to the folks at Aving, the unit was presented at a press conference in Korea, leading us to suspect it is another one of those Korea-market-only releases. No information on pricing and availability. And, I am rather surprised there were no encrusted diamonds.
Pentax’s world’s first water-proof & dust-resistant SLR camera [Via: Aving]
2 Responses to “World’s First Water-Proof and Dust-Resistant SLR Camera”
Tony C November 21, 2006
I think AVING.net got their facts wrong — the K10D is the one marketed as having a “dust proof, weather resistant” body. http://www.pentaximaging.com/p.....era–*ist_DL/reqID–8793673/subsection–digital_slr
The LX Gold is Pentax’s 60th anniversary camera and it’s a 35mm film-based SLR. Besides, nothing on it particularly looks waterproof or dust resistant… The original LX was introduced in 1980 and doesn’t look much different from this blinged out version.
NeutralEwdison Then November 21, 2006
Thanks for the info Tony
Neutral