Now sold.

Sorry, no it's the one before that model. I don't think there's any difference in the optics.

Now £265. Please note I'll be going abroad for 3 weeks on 21 December so you'll need to contact me soon if you're interested.

Sold

Thanks for the comments everyone, they're really helpful

Sold subject to payment.

I may be wrong, but I don't think any lenses in the Pentax line up from the 43 up are retrofocus, and they could therefore be quite easily adapated to fit a mirrorless body. I knew someone who used a Pentax 43 limited on a Leica, it was an official Pentax product, and smaller than the 43 for K mount, but using the same optical formula.

That would give Pentax access to some compact lenses. The 55-300 for example is no larger than the 45-200 for MFT (and covers a larger range of focal lengths). The 70 is very compact.

For wider lenses, I agree with the comments above. It would take a complete lens redesign, although Ricoh have plenty of experience in that sector.

As a recent purchaser of the K5, I respectfully suggest some of these posts are not that helpful. Like the OP, I could really have done with a walkthrough of recommended settings, as I hadn't used a DSLR before.

The trouble with the manual is that it's got everything in it, so it's hard to work out what the important things are, and what the unimportant things are. It's more a reference point for specific queries in my view.

Clearly, nothing beats personal experience. However, you can learn to some extent from others. This is what makes something like Smudge's link so helpful; I wish I'd seen that before.

My first tip is, once you've gone through that link, and have done a bit of shooting is that you decide what controls you need regularly. Then start using the customisable dials and buttons to make sure the controls you need are easily at hand. It really makes the K5 a dream to handle.

My second tip is to turn on highlight protection. It underexposes pictures then increases the exposure in camera, ensuring highlights are not clipped. In JPEG it really helps stop loss of highlight data. Even if shooting in RAW, it saves work spent on PP. The downside would be extra shadow noise, and that's non-issue on the K5 in most situations.

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