News from Pentax

The trick, if trick there be, is to think really, really carefully about why you're upgrading - what the new features are, what you'll use them for, and whether they're worth it to you at the price at the time.

Then you can postpone jumping in until you need to, and having jumped in, you can remind yourself of the reasons when something newer comes out.

However, even if this is true, I can't say it without blushing...

... since my actual reason for upgrading from the ME Super to the K10D was 'ah, Pentax at last have a 10 MP dSLR, and I'll be able to use all my M-series lenses with it'.

I guess I was lucky that the K10D is so good, and that the stop-down-metering issues just prompted me to look to the newer lenses anyway.

The 60-250 costs so much because it is awesome, will have stunning quality compared to any of the 70-200s and is designed for full frame. Thats right, if any of you have been keeping up with the sneak preview photos, they have changed the shape completely recently in the realisation that they need to prepare for a possible move to full frame in the future.

that means lots of glass and a massive heavy lens.

i cant wait

I just had a danish magazine this week. They had an article about photokina.

They state that Pentax will show their new K2000D - entry level camera as response to Canon and Nikon 1000D and D40/60.

According to the article it will feature the K10D processor, but no chance of grip, and AA batteries. It will be smaller in size than the K200D. (I would personally have loved a K20D with 7 fps, faster AF and better iso preformance.)

I did not specifically upgrade to the K20.

I decided that I wanted a second body and it seemed to make sense to buy a K20 with the £100 cashback rather than buy one of the last of the K10 bodies.