The cheaper CSCs don't come with a viewfinder, you have to compose the image on the rear screen as you would with a compact camera or smartphone, so not so easy for wildlife or sports! Comparable CSCs to a DSLR are in a similar price bracket, approx £450 to £1500. Personally I prefer the optical viewfinder of a DSLR with the option of using the rear screen on the odd occasion.
Do you wish to share lenses? If so a K-50 or KS-2 might fit the bill and neither are that heavy, and cheaper than many decent CSCs! Pentax don't actually make a changeable lens CSC with a digital eye level viewfinder to my knowledge. The nearest are the K-01 and Pentax Q series, neither has an eye level viewfinder.
Perhaps an option is the XG-1 which is a fixed lens superzoom which is listed at around £250.
http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/en/IntroducingthePENTAXXG-1.html
The image quality won't be in the same league as a DSLR though but its menus and general use will be quite similar to a Pentax DSLR.
Otherwise it'll be a matter of looking to the likes of Fuji etc.

Thought you might like to see a comparison of two 12mm lenses used on a K-1, both were taken from more or less the same spot. One is taken with a Samyang 12mm f2.8, the other a Sigma 12-24mm AF DG EX (at 12mm) that I have just obtained from Papa_Lazarou via the forum.
I'm not saying which is which for now, I'm just interested in any general observations and which do you reckon is taken with which lens. I'll reveal all later with my own thoughts which might prove useful if anyone else is thinking of obtaining such a lens.

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Clue: The Samyang is a fish-eye!

Can I join in?!

An article in today's DM says HP will issue a new update that will reverse the 'update' that killed the third party cartridges. Supposed to happen within the next two weeks.

Wonder if any camera manufacturer will try to do an 'update' to prevent lenses not made by them working on their cameras.

Indeed Google!

There's one at Boston Spa, near Wetherby on 13th November.
http://www.apc4me.co.uk/cgi-local/camera.cgi?TASK=DrawEvents
It's not a big thing though, just in a village hall.

I think there are others but I know not where!

Edit: Here's another at Wolverhampton Race Course: http://www.wolverhamptoncamerafair.co.uk/
next one 16th October

Ah, must be loads! At Frome on 30th October:
http://www.fromewessexcameraclub.co.uk/pages/camera-fair.php

And some more here:
http://www.nanites.co.uk/Camera_Fairs_2016.html

Yes, it's the Fwdc228b.bin file that has to be extracted from the zip file that has to go in the root directory of the SD card that is in slot 1, not the zip file itself.
The instructions are pretty clear but seem to miss out that step!

That's really good to hear. Certainly worth the 20 year wait!

Cameras with larger sensors write larger files which take longer to write to disk. So the smaller the sensor, the quicker the camera can write the files (everything else being equal.) Hence (I suspect) the reason smaller sensor cameras are more suited to sports/action. Using the right lens should avoid the need for cropping! (Hence the monsters pros seem to use.)

Ah, could well be. Cheers.