No disrespect to you Chris but that is a crazy price

The K20 (body only)was only about £650 when it was first released here and if I am not mistaken it was about the same over there, so whats changed and how did they come up with that price Its got me baffled

Does anyone know if the AF500FTZ flash will work in Auto TTL mode on a DS or is it manual only. Thanks

One of the first shots with the K-7, Wet and miserable outside, so inside is all I got.

Taken with the 43mm ltd
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I also have the DS and was going to use it in that, but checking the Katzeye website, its different and will only go into a K10 & K20,

I was going to try it but chickened out, I didn't want to risk damaging it. sorry

Now that I have the K-7 I will be selling my K20 + Kit lens + grip and other bits and pieces related to the K20,

One of those is the Katzeye focus screen, in perfect condition. If it fitted the K-7 I would keep it.

This screen has the opti-brite treatment but not the Pentax AF brackets, I paid about AU$230 including postage for it in Feb this year. Looking for AU$160 free postage anywhere, comes in its original hard plastic case with installation tweezers.

PM me if you are interested.

Sorry Mike but its been pouring rain here and I am very busy at work.

I did manage a quick play with it this afternoon, just a few snaps of the cat inside i'm afraid, while going through all the settings,

And a video from my balcony of a downpour. There are 3 quality settings for video, I used the highest setting and made a 19sec video which chewed up 100meg of memory, very impressed with it, picture quality and sound are quite crisp and would rival any video camera. So you would get about 13mins of high quality video from a 4gig card.

Dan, The software is a new version as you would expect S_SW90 utility 4, still powered by Silkypix, but to be honest I wasn't even contemplating loading it on.

I can't even upload anything as i'm at work, sorry best I can do at the moment.

In fact it says "fair dinkum" at the end of every sentence, thats why its so much thicker

Now leave me alone to finish my reading fair dinkum

Sorry guys, you will have to wait, I'm on the grave yard shift this week and can't upload anything to photobucket or my work computer.
I will see what I can do tomorrow at home once I have had a sleep

I did bring it into work and will just have a play with it tonight and read the manual, which by the way is twice as thick as the K20 manual

I picked mine up this morning, Waiting for the battery to charge
It certainly feels nice and compact but holding it side by side with the K20 its not that much smaller, weight is about 70grams lighter than the K20

Initially it feels good in the hand but I think it will be even better with a grip.

I like the layout of the buttons, I prefer all the buttons to be accessible with my right thumb, rather than down the left side of the screen.

I'm glad they got rid of the locking catch for the memory card door and now made it a slide out action, much easier to use.

The new battery is now 7.2volts 1860mAh compared to 7.4volts 1620mAh with the K20 battery,

The on board flash is higher so it may be usable on your wide angle lenses.

Thats my initial thoughts before firing it up

Come on battery charger, its been 10mins already, hurry up

As I have said before, its only the K-7 thats significantly cheaper over here (if your RRP price is to be believed) Lens prices are on a par if not more expensive, so its baffling to me.

Maybe someone got thier sums wrong over here or over thier for that matter.

As Danny states the price appears to be coming down to a more realistic price over thier I hope for your sakes, it keeps heading south.

Just on the battery shortage, wasn't the K10/20 battery an already available design : and rebadged for Pentax. If so maybe the K-7 battery is already out thier, under a third party brand. (sorry John :wink