I'm going over tomorrow, sad to see little pentax on show. Hopefully it will still be worth the trip...

Long thread lol

Well here is a good comparisn between mkii and mkiis sharpness and the conclusion may surprise...

http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/Features/The-S-Is-for-Subtle-The-Pentax-K-5-II-...

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Ooh no, never use the focus assist light...

Back to working in the night club tonight, the club is very dark and only lit by coloured spots and lazers. So a real good test for the new mkii. My old mki was hopeless at focussing in the club and I had to resort to setting focus to manual, set lens focus to 3 feet and shoot at f/8.

Tonight was really impressive with the mkii out of over 400 shots 3 had missed focus, on the dance floor i had a couple of occasions where the camera briefly hunted this was whilst focussing on silhouettes.

Anyhow heres an image, the door behind is open and outside is obviously dark.

Thanks David

Now at the same price as a plain mkii would influence my decision to purchase one as I would have both then

For me the small gain in sharpness out of body can be achieved in lightroom very easily without detriment to the image.

I still see no reason to get the mkiis, in fct my next purchase will be another mkii

If you can get a Pentax SMC A24mm for less than £95 I would jump on it, usually they go for around £125 upwards...

Think of resale value, if you are going to sell before two years an pentax warranty through SRS is transferable under sales on this forum, which could help / increase value of any future sale...

I'm with John here, been using Pentax DSLR for over 6 years now and needed just one warranty repair on my k-5 last year.