Pentax can never compete with canikon, they can however keep coming out with niche products. Glass is a long term investment and a range can be built upon over time, as happened in the last few years.

But bodies have a two year lifespan, even my nine monbth old k-5 is already starting to look antiquated. The k-30 excites me alot.

The k-x should have been successful but focus points failed it

The k-7 was desperately let down by its sensor and having the better sensor in the k-x was a huge mistake

The k-r was a superb little camera & in my point of view should have stayed in production a little longer, this was more a beginners / introduction to dslr camera. Then the k-30 could have filled the gap between k-r and k-30.

now we are back to the k-7 k-x ituation where the base model is better than the top model k-5 minus an LCD.

So the k-5 predecessor needs to be a really significant improvement otherwise Ricoh may have a problem on their hands.

Hopefully the k-5 replacement will be a lot better than the k-30 but then the entry price is going t obe around £1500 which is in 5d mk2 d700 category which are still being produced I believe...

Only thing that concerns me about the k-30 is the 6fps is only in jpeg mode and the buffer can only hold 8 raw images. if I remember correctly this was the same when the k-5 was launched but fixed in a firmware release???

I thought price was £649, pentax aren't going to sell it for less than k-01

Rice High blog update today...

http://ricehigh.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/k-30-specs-leaked.html

80 is an expanded as 28600 is

What sort of range do those remotes have??

Thanks really looking forward to it...

The worrying fact about online reviews is that the reviewing site will be hoping you buy that product through the sites affiliate links. Which strokes me as being odd that they compared it to a d300s, surely that means it is punching above its weight...

A very strange review.

Was going to position myself behind the goal, so good advise thanks...

I have been assigned to shoot socceraid at old Trafford next week. Any tips for shooting football will be much appreciated. Won't be sporting action so much as catching the celebs on the pitch, will a 300mm be ample long enough???

Naked ladies followed by this weeks in favour teenage heart throb. I did a quick portrait session with some guy called Connor Maynard at the beginning of April, hits where amazing. Still getting around 200 a day on those shots... All from lovely google searches. Thanks to keywording and metadata...