Thanks cabstar, that's a good practical summary.

Thanks everyone for that input. I'm really primarily concerned about IQ and wanted to understand if the K30, being newer, had made some improvement. I'll head down to a local store and have a look at both of them in terms of handling and operation, before I buy.
Thanks again....

Hi,
I'm getting back into photography as my main hobby after an absence of 10 years. I used to be very active in the film era and have owned many different cameras from Minoltas to Olympus OMs and all the way to mhy first, A Spotmatic. I briefly played with Nikons and Canons in the early digital days, but having looked at the current offerings I've narrowed it down to the Pentax K5 or K30. Has anybody got any views on the difference in image quality produced by these 2 cameras ? I'm looking at both RAW & jpegs at normal ISOs (100 - 800) ?

Thanks...