Is now a good time to upgrade to a K-5?
have any specs been released?
Nope. There's been no announcement at all. Rumours are ten-a-penny.
If money was no object how much better than the K5 can it be?
Loads. They can always be loads better.
The K-5 is good, but it's not perfect, and a little Googling will reveal a truckload of improvements people want.
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I then feel there will be an updated camera based on the K-5. We've had the K-7, we've had the K-5, how about the K-9? It'll be some dog of a camera Whatever it is it will be similar to a K-5 but be updated with some of the newer features Pentax have included with the Q and K-01 but not present on the K-5 (eg the animation feature.) To be honest though, what else would you want on a DSLR that the K-5 doesn't have already? It has been shown to out-perform well regarded full frame models from other manufacturers. The DSO ranking placed it 7th in the table of 2012 Best Professional DSLR Camera Reviews http://digital-cameras.toptenreviews.com/professional-dslr/ but surely anywhere in the top ten cannot be too bad!
Which is the best value of them all? It would seem that the K-5 is pretty well up there already with the best so how much could it be improved in a new model? I feel not a lot when it comes to taking photographs and technology needs to progress somewhat for it to jump to the number one slot for features not to be found in anything else.
You would certainly find going from the K-x to the K-5 a worthwhile jump. As to whether the follow up camera is worth waiting for we can only conjecture, I feel it will offer a little more, but not much and come in around the same price point the K-5 was 18 months ago, that is initially around £1100/1200 and gradually drop over a similar time scale to where the K-5 is now. The K-7 did just that before it.
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John
Concert photography
Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released
I'm overcoming my desire to jump brands, it's coincided with a bit of good weather. The K-5 is a very good camera.
Concert photography
Currently on a Pentax hiatus until an FF Pentax is released
The K5 is a very good camera and even when the next Pentax flagship model arrives, the K5 will still be a good camera. In terms of price I think they are worth every penny, but I am biased I own two of them.
+1 to all of the above (including the 'two of them' bit) !
Maybe something else to consider: if you intend to wait for the next Pentax camera then you have a long wait. They may be announced at Photokina (September) and then it'll be a few months before they hit the shops ... and at top price. So you are looking at a 6-9 month wait and paying the premium early adopters always pay (e.g. K5 was, if I remember correctly, around US$1,600 when announced and is now US$850).
You can't lose much on buying a K5 now and selling it again 9-12 months down the line if you wanted to.
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The K5 is a very good camera and even when the next Pentax flagship model arrives, the K5 will still be a good camera. In terms of price I think they are worth every penny, but I am biased I own two of them.
And the K20 is still a good camera....The only model that didn't hit the mark was the K7!....I'm going to buy a K5 one of these days!
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