Pentax X-5

Looks Nice Lets hope its the start of the new model season.

Interesting that Pentax thought a fairly standard tiny sensored big zoom bridge camera wasn't worth saving for Photokina.

I assume the next variation of the K5 and the road mapped for end of 2012 long telephoto prime are next months offerings.

I'm looking forward to all the promised lenses. Shame they are all listed on the roadmap as 2013. A new wide angle landscape prime would be the most interesting to me if affordable in the UK. Plastic bayonet to keep cost down as with most recent 35mm and 50mm offerings?

Good to see some mainstream sense after some of the recent, rather bonkers, niche offerings. I think this is a very good and sensibly prices addition to the line-up aimed at tempting compact shooters in future to the DSLR range.

Let's hope this common sense manifests itself in a sensible DSLR lineup very soon. I think it will. The K5 and K30 show that Pentax have the ability to increase market share if they can get the strategy, marketing, communication and customer service right (which I think is more doubtful).

I like this camera... wonder why no q-mount? this lens and body sold as the Q-5 would have made perfect sense, unless of cours there is a k-01type evil with apsc and evf coming soon...

I have the X90 and it is extremely good at full zoom and 1cm close ups! I'm sure this will be even better.
Shame the X90 didn't have the tilting screen.

I wonder why they chose not to use a larger sensor though?

7 x crop compared to 35mm allows huge zoom in one lens

As in the other thread, I thought 5.5x. Axtually, this is going to get confusing with two threads, so I'll close this one and perhaps we can move the discussion to the other one?