GX20 vs K20D useability?

Yes it does, and in turn the same batteries as the K10D and K20D (branding aside). [/quote]

It would, wouldn't it, being the same camera except for a few cosmetic details? I'd imagine they're made in the same factory.
Anyone British over 40 will recognise this from the car industry - it was called badge engineering.

Managed to get some time to play. My 'new' GX20 had 220ish clicks, so more than happy with that for the 40% discount. As it looks like I won't get my K7 by the time I go on holiday it will be nice to hve the best available 'Pentax' as a primary body.

I wonder what the shutter count is on a new Pentax or GX not bought at discount? Not a guess but the actual number.

My GX-20 at £299 came in the same box utterly pristine as a new one, all the accessories were in sealed plastic bags. The battery was separate from the camera in a sealed bag. The body had no mark of any kind, nor any dust on the focussing screen or sensor.

I'd imagine the reason for selling these at such a low price would be that they see no point in stocking what are really such similar versions of the same camera so the Samsung would be discontinued (by this dealer)

The question to me is who would pay £200 more for a Pentax badge? It must lower the value of s/h Pentax and Samsung DSLRs, just as discounting on cars has hit the automobile market.

Perhaps whoever buys the next new camera can check that, although the QA for Pentax and Samsung may not be the same. I can't see them bothering to wipe the count back to 0 before dispatch, they probably didn't even know that we would have access to that information and in any case any QA clicks should be included in the total for it to be true record of clicks. Things like VCR's and DVD Recorders probably keep track of usage, but without the diagnostic equipment to read it we don't know anything about it. On Sony DAT recorders there was a key sequence that displayed how many hours they had been used for.

shim