On April 1????? link?

no

I can see the first fruits of thier union already....
a 645 d stripped of all electronics, viewfinder and packaged in a brown box... The Kodak 645 Brownie D....

Nice try!

only to temp some guys to switch from canikon.....

a couple clips with my cheap DYI D-slr video low angle shooting rig...
link


for $200.00
or
$15.00 + tripod quick release plate ($0.00 for me I had spares laying around).


Remove the light (perfect for video lighting) and bolt on a release plate...
(Don't tell the canikon shooters, they like wasting money:twisted

very nice, cute kid!

I am content to use the 35 2.4 (my new favorite) the 50 1.4, 85mm 2.2 soft and 100mm macro... for primes, and the 10-17, 16-45, and 28-70 f4 for zooms... for most portrait shoots.

if I had to choose between the two the op mentioned I'd grab the 50-135.

I looked at the k5 as well.. the kr just made more sense for me... for most people that don't have the kind of stuff I've amassed I'd say the k5 and a kx as back up would be a great solution.
But with two k10's, a ds2 and three camcorders... the k5 would mean another propriety battery and charger to lug around.... and we got a kr at a really good price, just forty bucks more than the kx... it was a no brainer...
I'd suggest NOT waiting for something to go wrong with the k5, just snap up a kx (or kr + AA adaptor) as spare body anyways, if you don't already have a spare...

What savings? have you actually compared the nex system or nx system to the kx/kr? (i just did)
The lenses are so big all you wind up with is the same sized lenses on awkward to hold bodies that in fact are not all that much smaller... I'd say in practical terms a kx with pancake lens is a better option if you want smaller or a compact camera...
I compared several models of samsung, sony and panasonic, and must say if I were starting from scratch, the Panasonic system has better af with video and system compatibility, and would be a great step up from a compact camera... but none will match the stills ability of the kx or kr.
With the Samsung or Sony, you could pack a bag with a body, a spare body and several lenses including a couple primes and a couple zooms, from each brand and when you're finished they are all comparable in weight and size, close enough that I bet if you took the spare body out of the pentax bag, it just might equal the others... the weight of a spare body is about the difference by the time you assemble a complete kit..
Oly and Pany are smaller but still inferior image quality...

A step up from a compact shooter, but hardly worth the image quality trade off for somebody that already shoots with a d-slr..... now if Pentax releases a mirror-less, I might consider it a worthwhile spare body..... if it is k-mount, "AA" powered and is priced less than a kr.....

I too looked at the nex system. I have three sony camcorders and to be honest, the way sony works thier batteries, lens mounts and accessories, you might as well be running seperate systems for each camera...

to add in a nex vg10 and nex 5 to my current crop would mean multiple propriety batteries+ chargers and lens a adaptor and flash adaptor.... that really sucks to be honest.

I bought a kr and "aa" battery adapters for it and am happy to know the proprietary battery is my back up, but the kr shoots with the same "AA"'s as my ds2 and flash units, fits all my lenses and HAS BETTER photo and video quality than any of the current mirror-less models.. the only drawback of course is the time limits on the video... I still need my sony camcorders for long recordings... and pro audio recording of course...

you could do much worse than a kx or kr if you want a small camera, with good low light and video abilities..... I couldn't afford to keep waiting for the "Next" model... too many good deals on kx's and kr's right now.