It's the old 'Computer Fair' con where they sell SH priced goods
that have been tested and then have boxes marked untested
at about 10-20% of the marked price.... in seller speak......
Untested means failed the test and you should buy based
on what you consider a broken/non-working item is worth

You might find this thread of interest link

It contains a link to Gregmolls setup on Flickr also on this
site somewhere?

The low light performance of the K-5 is amazing it works in light
that K20D could only manage to produce very grainy shots

This was taken in the kitchen late in the day with just windowlight
(about 8ft away) and a small bulb on a wall fitting. I had to rely on
the green/beep indicator for focus confirmation the light was that bad.

f/2 at 1/5th 100ISO that's poor even for room lighting, but the
K-5 can handle it OK




K-5 with Tomioka 55mm f/1.2 lens
at f/2 x 1/5th sec. Tripod.
Available light. Dark January 2:30pm
Straight from camera Jpeg slight crop/sharpen.
AWB

RAW would allow more highlight/shadow preservation.

It's OK to take the film out if you just want to look at the perforations!

Wow! that's weird!

Just tried a K-5 battery in a K10D cover... it does fit but
springs off possibly due to the valley part that goes between the
AA effect cells. Probably be OK if this was cut off?

Edit: Yep! Took about a minute with an X-Acto
knife... I left some of the curved valley bits in so
that it springs against the K-5 battery. There's no
positive/active clip holding it on, but it should stay
on OK. I might put a small piece of masking tape on it
to be sure

It can still be used on the K10D battery as well.

Clever stuff Bernard now get set up with a wholesaler

Doesn't the K10D plastic holder fit the K-5 battery?

I would imagine it would! .... when you
can't see what your photographing!

He's only come back to try out the K-01

Welcome the the K-01 World!

Just looked at that lousy site:

The Pentax K-01 has 872 comments in the News announcements
the Nikon D800 has 288 comments in the same section
"
Maybe all the Pentax comments crashed the system

Pentax link

Nikon link

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Of course without even handling a K-01 they went
straight into the negative:

"Our biggest concern, based on its dependance on
contrast detection autofocus, is the camera's focus
speed. Most lenses designed for DSLR-style
phase-detection autofocus don't lend themselves
to the rapid contrast detection autofocus required
by mirrorless cameras."

BAH!!