Showcasing is one thing...selling them is another .

Any ideas on when these new products, announced and tba will actually be available?

Not sure I can make it on the 9th sadly .

I think that that might still the plan GD. At least according to most other sites.

http://www.buienradar.nl/ shows the rainfall over the Netherlands. I can zoom in on my area too.

http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=exp Not quite so good of most of Europe.

Well the new 35mm comes in a choice of colours, which the 18-55 doesn't, so maybe it is the kit lens for the K-r.

I am hoping to get my mucky mitts on the K-5 at Photokina so I can get a feel for it before committing to it. I probably won't be able to handle it I know, but at least I hope to have a good look at it before deciding to order one (or not).


Edit:

I've just seen on the other forum a release date for the k-5 of the 22nd. Which is day 2 of Photokina and the day I am there. Not sure what to make of that.

I hope they do the announcing on the 20th. It would be just my luck for them to announce it at something like 5 pm on the 22nd, when I'm in the train home .

I wouldn't bet on it .

Tamron seem to have given up on Pentax anyway.

A bigger hole in your bank balance?

You can compare the specs of the two on the Pentax site.

I know - it is almost enough to get me watching the show .

It was too big for me really, too heavy. I tended to leave it at home rather than lug it with me on walks and the like. I just never really got on with it somehow.

Plus I always struggled to get good pictures with it - that was my fault, I know, not the camera's but as I didn't like it I didn't really make the effort to learn it properly.
With the Ds I nailed probably 90% of my photos. With the K20D it was nearer 20%.

Sounding better and better