To grip or not?

The K7 is big enough without a grip, smaller is better in my book, to the point I have even considered an EVIL camera. I have had to modify my flight-bag to carry the K7 and there's no way I would want even more weight/bulk. Plus it feels fine as it is, even with bigger lenses. Though I think I will get an (ungripped) K5.

I have a grip for my K20D. But since getting a second body I haven't bothered using it since. I carry spare SD cards, batteries and some lenses in a couple of bum bags.

I also never used the vertical shutter button on the grip.

I bought a grip for my K10D and posed with the best of them. Funny how many people said that I must have an excellent camera simply because it was big! It, however, annoyed the hell out of me. More often than not I carry the camera around my neck while out and about and I find the camera doing odd things because the grip controls have been knocked by my clothes. For example, I messed up a series of shots because the ISO had been inadvertently set to 3200 which is utterly unusable on the K20D (I very rarely go over 400). I only put the grip on now when I know I am going to be using the DA* 50-135mm a fair bit as I like the counter-balance to the lens.

In fact my grip is up for sale if anyone cares to dig deep enough into the for sale section to find the listing...

K.

Use one on my K-5 but only because I got one of the cheap £40 grips that basically look and perform just as good as the orinal £200 Pentax version. I could noty imagine taking it off now if only for the balance and feel.

Dave