Thanks for all the comments, very helpful.

I'll probably get on the phone to SRS soon & order it as no-one in the Plymouth area stocks them. I'm hoping the K-7 will be just as good & reliable as my ME-Super always has been - an excellent camera.

I wasn't keen on defecting to Canon anyway!

I've just joined the website having been a magazine subscriber for some time & have used Pentax SLRs for over 30 years.

I'm thinking of buying a digital SLR & been looking at the K-7. I've looked at other posts on here & also read a few reviews which mostly are good. My only concern is one review compared the K-7 with a Canon & a Nikon and even though they recommended it, the image quality & metering system did not come out very well - the images looked pretty flat in comparison.

Is this just a one-off or have others been disappointed with image results? I wouldn't want to move to a different brand but wouldn't want to be disappointed with the results either.

If any K-7 users out there have any thoughts I'd be grateful, thanks.

Gordon