I don't do a significant proportion of my photography in inclement conditions needing WR, but I don't think that's the point. Like insurance, you don't need it at all until one day, you completely need it.

I need it only occasionally but I always carry at least one WR lens with me, just in case.

I don't disagree with your comments except to say that for K-3, "better video" is still very much an open question and may be down to how you want to use it, compared to K-5 video. Add that to the debate on high ISO performance and you can see why I (for whom both are important) am now leaning more towards getting a K-5 II/s, or waiting.

Even the increased pixel count may be an issue for some, because of dramatically increased file sizes. More pixels is not always better in all respects.

For those reasons, Pentax will do well to keep the K-5II/s available for some time yet IMO or even introduce a K-5 III.

The freeware Virtualdub handles AVI/MJPEG + PCM/wav files well for this kind of thing and lets you alter the audio interleaving/sync + or - by any amount.

It will save the video and audio unchanged, except for the altered interleave/sync if you choose Direct Stream Copy. HD is no problem for it. One advantage of K-5 video over K-3 video, in my book, is its use of avi which is more widely compatible than mp4, especially with established freeware.

I've used it to solve this kind of problem (and more) for a decade or more, you don't even need to install it as such, just run it from the .exe after unzipping into some random folder. If you want to know the exact settings to use, let me know. http://www.virtualdub.org/index

No no, I may just give up the beer for two weeks and get the IIs!

The K5IIS - K5II difference this weekend (like last weekend) at SRS is precisely £15.00, with the Pentax discount.

K5IIs: £799 less SRS £85 discount less £85 Pentax rebate = £629.

K5II: £699 less SRS £85 discount = £614. [Pentax offer does not apply to K5II body only]

High ISO noise is important to me, too. Have you tried resizing/resampling the K-3 high ISO images down to K-5 image size? If so, does that reduce the K-3 noise to K-5 levels? We could then have the option of losing all or part of the extra resolution in post production, in order to get the noise down.

This (and video performance) will definitely be a factor in my decision whether to go for a K-5II or K-3.

Vendors offering a K-5II body could get you the discount by selling you a K-5II kit with receipt, then removing and refunding the kit lens separately, I guess. Only the biggest Pentax dealers would be able to do this and you'd have to arrange it over the phone.

I'll probably stick to using an external SD card reader, as I find that copying fast SDHC cards from K-5 to PC via the usb2 lead is about 25% slower than copying direct from the SDHC card to PC via in an external usb2 reader, and connecting the usb2 reader to a usb3 PC port is even faster than that.

K-5 doesn't really benefit from connecting it to a usb3 port on my PC (instead of a usb2 port) which suggests that K-5 internals is the limiting factor. So I'll be surprised if the K3 can transfer via its usb3 lead as fast as an external usb3 card reader connected to a usb3 PC port.

But the UK price drops by at least £85 if you give up your old camera to SRS for example, and I for one have got several of them (if only they'd take more than one!)

So I'm another who wouldn't do the Australia import thing.

I like it, it's a good example of where APS-C has the advantage IMHO. It's possibly easier to achieve than with a similarly priced FF (if you can find one at the K-3 price level).

I don't think I'll ever buy a FF DSLR, whoever makes them.