NOW SOLD

NOW SOLD

Still available. Going on ebay tomorrow.
Camera and 18-55mm .... £260 plus £10 postage

Sigma 50-200mm DC OS HSM f4/5.6 .... £55 plus £8 postage

Camera and both lenses...... £300.00 plus £18 postage [would post items seperately as together they'd be in the £25 special delivery band]

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some pictures taken with the Sigma 50-200
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greypoint/sets/72157625653119793/

unfortunately no

£320 plus postage

Still available.

Plus Sigma 50-200mm DC OS HSM f4/5.6 excellent condition [have bought WR lens!] Nice lens with silent AF. £60

An interesting read. I've had a K-5 since last November [the original one swapped for new a couple of months ago when it developed a sensor stain plus another minor problem] - my last Pentax was a K-20D in 2008. I returned to Nikon at the end of 2008 when the D90 came out and changed to the D300s which I used up until I bought my K-5. The D300s remains one of the best DSLRs yet produced - looking at the D7000 it seems to have as near to the performance of the D300s as most amateurs are ever likely to need coupled with the tweaks in technology that come with each new generation of camera - and of course the new sensor - in a more affordable D90 style body.
For me, the big incentive to take another look at Pentax was the size and build of the K-5. Ever since using the old Olympus E-1 the camera body I wanted was smallish, chunky, metal and weathersealed. With other manufacturers it tends to be 'small camera - plastic - menu driven controls - no top lcd - slow fps etc' if you want all the controls close to hand you're looking at a much bigger and heavier body. My friend has my old D90 and picking it up again after using the K-5 for several months really made me appreciate how much I love the general feel and ergonomics of the K-5 - the D90 remains an excellent camera though!
Yes, Nikon AF is brilliant, but I've been pretty impressed with the K-5. I generally stick to centre point although I have experimented with multipoint when shooting flying birds and been reasonably successful. Given the right lens I think the K-5 can compete pretty well - unless you're really into superfast sport etc. when you'd probably try to go for a higher grade camera anyway. The main problem I have is the lack of a fast focussing zoom that goes to 300mm and competes with the Nikkor 70-300 AF-S. The Pentax 55-300 is optically very good - in the kit form is fantastic value given the results - but just so noisy and slow when it loses focus. Other than that, for me, either camera offers an excellent choice but the K-5 has the edge simply on build, size and weight - and the general feeling you have a quality product [although there have been a few teething problems I know!]. Just bought a WR lens for a little over £100 - does another maker have one of those? The icing on the cake is that incredible shutter sound - especially in hi speed continuous!!

Will do!

Hi I offered it to someone I know locally yesterday and promised to show it to him on Friday so I have to give him first refusal now. If he does'nt have it I'll post on here that it's still available.
Sue

The lens is marked Pz-AF 2X TELEPLUS MC7 KENKO DG.

Update - have now tried it and the Tamron on a K20D and it AFs normally - so it would appear that the non compatability issue of the Tamron is only with the later models.