Possible K-5 Specs !!

I don't think Sigma (and Tamron) are the same. Although they may be from the outside they do use different internal mechanisms to work with the different systems and will incorporate different electronics.

What Pentax really need are much faster SDMs. There's no point in the camera getting the focus faster if the lens can't keep up.

Gwyn,

What did you not like about the K20 :

It was too big for me really, too heavy. I tended to leave it at home rather than lug it with me on walks and the like. I just never really got on with it somehow.

Plus I always struggled to get good pictures with it - that was my fault, I know, not the camera's but as I didn't like it I didn't really make the effort to learn it properly.
With the Ds I nailed probably 90% of my photos. With the K20D it was nearer 20%.

True, but most of the time for me it's not the speed of the AF motor that's the cause of slow AF, but damn hunting.

Although I may eat my words in a couple of days when my new DA* 50-135 arrives. My first SDM lens.

I wouldn't bet on it .

Tamron seem to have given up on Pentax anyway.

Belinda B. mainly uses the X70, tending to only use a K10 or K20 around the house or in the garden or occasionally when I have been the one carrying it for many miles

I am hoping to get my mucky mitts on the K-5 at Photokina so I can get a feel for it before committing to it. I probably won't be able to handle it I know, but at least I hope to have a good look at it before deciding to order one (or not).


Edit:

I've just seen on the other forum a release date for the k-5 of the 22nd. Which is day 2 of Photokina and the day I am there. Not sure what to make of that.

I hope they do the announcing on the 20th. It would be just my luck for them to announce it at something like 5 pm on the 22nd, when I'm in the train home .

Do what I do go into the shop with a sd card and a battery and ask to try it and check out the images at home.
Ian

They can't do that without developing ring-SDM - which would mean "MkII" versions of every SDM lens. At the moment Pentax SDM (even in the £1000+ DA* lenses) works the same as Canon's "micro USM" which only goes in their cheaper lenses.

There's a message in there some where.

One car for racing, one car for school trips, one car for off road and one car for the King's road.

Regards

p.s.

multi tasking with photography is the ownership of four or so different cameras.

I kind of know where you are coming from, the DS is a gem of a camera especially with the 40mm ltd. Much as I still love and use it, I really think the K20D is the possibly the best camera I've ever owned. Some of the features really suit me and my way of working, the only thing I've now come to wish it had is 'User 1' and 'User 2'. If the next camera has that AND full HD video I'd go for it.

Then again, I tend to use cameras for a very long time; my history is Spotmatics, MX and only because I needed the 28mm Shift for a commission, SFXNs and then finally digital.

So maybe I'll wait a bit longer...

If I had been happy with the K20D I would have kept it and wouldn't go for the new model. I am not someone who needs the newest of the new always.

I am hoping the K-5 will just suit me better, size wise if nothing else.

But there again I may still go for the K-7 or even the K-r now some of the niggles over the k-x have been addressed. Since I am currently camera-less it will be one of those three. We shall see.

I was always surprised you didnt get rid of the K20D sooner and buy a K-7 .

Camera less but lens buoyant?

Regards

Gary, do you not think you may be hitting those tins of Fosters a bit hard