LEns arrived, in perfect order! Thank you!

From posting the 'wanted' to having the lens in my hands - 6 days! Now the fun starts!

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Yes! How much are you looking for for this?

Anyone have one of these lying about that needs a good home? I have seen new for £219, but not looked at eBay yet. My price for a second hand with completely clean front optic would be £180, or there abouts.

I have always gone for San Disk cards, from the days of CF - always been reliable and always been able to recover images and video when accidently deleted!

I think the camera can only handle up to 32GB cards though.

Just a note, though I am not a burst photo freek, I havn't noticed any different in performance from my Class 6 to Class 10 cards in the camera.

Thank you for the link, I have been waiting for a review. For me there is both encouragement and dissappointment: I was hoping for better live view AF as in the K30 - dissappointed, also looking at samples I think that noise is even better controlled in the K30, however no change from the K5 - a little dissappointed; I was hoping for more accurate focus in low light - encouraged.

I was also surprised, I own the K7 so an upgrade this certainly is, however I have been focussing on the K5II. Now I am looking at the K5IIs as this will address much of the issues I have with my K5, also a FF Pentax would have to go some way to beat the resolution if it has AA filter in place - I think it may not have the AA filter, they did it with the 645D - yet another Pentax first!

This review has not changed my mind in upgrading my 3 year old K7, however it has made the choice of the K5IIs a more logical one.

I was just passing Jessops and tried a non pentax camera. The focus was so fast and quiet that I wasn't even sure that the camera was focussing at all! It was not all roses, but it showed me what is possible. The K5ii/iis is on my shopping list (money boxes already stacking up).

However, this got me thinking, I have one lens the 18-135 that focuses much faster and, it feel, more accurately than any other lens I have.

So how much of an improvement in focussing speed will I get from my K7 to the K5ii with the same lenses?

The camera delivers the accuracy, but is it the lense that delivers the focussing speed?

I will settle for more accurate focusing, but will I be focussing at the same speed? I know hunting should be reduced so lets asume no hunting in the first place.

Any thoughts?

Maybe the Q10 will rectify this. For me this would also be a deal breaker as I would get it for extreme telephoto which would mean the adaptor and my longer lenses.

Two points from me:

1) ISO 1600 on the K10 is very limited and the results are likely to be very noisy, and not just in the shaddow detail. The other point with the K10 is the dynamic range is more limited so exposure will be more important and use of RAW advisable.

2) Fixing white balance may give you some issues, I would use a grey card and take a propper custom white balance reading for each shot. Or ensure that the grey card is included in the shot to allow for tuning of the white balance during post processing/RAW development. Without this, you will be guessing the Kelvin light value through the rear LCD!

Shot 1 is my favourite, however I would have liked the wing tips!

Shot 4 seems to have excessive noise in the sky (mostly top left)

Shot 5 the bird is a little under exposed, could use a little shadow lift or use of levels with a mask over the sky.

Shot 7 has an uncomfortable halo - is this too much sharpening? Also the angle is a little odd, wondering if a +90degree rotation might change this.