Time for upgrade body?

Hello

I currently use a Km, sparsely, as its not my main hobby. However since having the 35mm plastic fantastic lens I now always seem to find the standard kit dal lens a little disappointing in all but the 50-100mm range of the 50-200.
So been thinking of the 18-135mm alongside my 35mm as my main carry about lenses.

Is it time to think about upgrading to the weatherproofing k30 or k50 if I was to go for this lens?

Things I would not want to lose about the KM is the simple light handling & use of AA's (would never go for anything else).

I have always used spot focusing as without an indicator in the prism its just not worth using anything else. Would be nice to have selectable points. The biggest negative is the ISO use of the CCD. Even with the f2.4 its still not usable for indoor shots without the nasty flash. Anything above iso400 is unusable IMHO. I hear the CMOS newer versions are much much better?

Any thoughts? The k500 does not seem worth the little less in cash considering the loss of selectable focus points and non-weatherproofing.

What about a K5, just over £400 for the body only at SRS?

I wouldn't get too hung on AA batteries. When you see how many shots the K5 can fire on the Lithium Li-on battery and its so easy charging the battery. Plus additional non-genuine batteries are cheap. So its easy to fill the kit bag with 3-4 charged batteries.
Plus by going with the split Lithium Li-on and AA option, they ended up with a compromised system on the Kr, K30, K50 and K500. The Lithium Li-on can be zapped quite quickly, while only the best AA batteries last a worthwhile time.
That said it never put me off the K30 at all. Battery life was a little bit of shock after the K10D, but was fine with spare batteries.

You'll love the high ISO performance on any of the latest models.....its awesome!!!!!

You will notice a small increase in size and quite a jump (~40%) in the weight of a K-30/K-50/K-5 compared with the K-m. However, the solid build seems reassuring of their quality, and the extra heft does feel well-balanced when using the chunkier lenses such as the 18-135 WR.

Philip

The K-m is a beautiful landscape tool, lovely fluid images with warm colours. However, I found everything else about it a little frustrating - slow to respond, very poor at ISO's above 400 (not very good at 400 either) and battery life not very good.

The K30 would be a massive step up, as would the K-5. At current K-5 prices, I might be tempted to go for this in preference to a K30, but the K30 probably has the superior AF. Even better if you could stretch to a K-5II as the AF on the later models is much more reliable.

Regards
David

Cheers - sounds like I need to save up some cash and get myself a bundle. Anyone know the going asking price for a KM and the kit lenses - not huge I guess but all helps!

£120-150 is about right for a KM

just seen this at SRS

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141072987320?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1...

and

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360749773790?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1...

tasty little combination!