Where is your location?

Clever title....and a well observed little grouping. If anyhthing, I would have preferred them all to be sharp, but it isn't always easy to achieve.

Centre point only for focus.
Centre-weighted metering.
Natural image style.
Premium JPEG quality.
Lock exposure to focus point.

No case Dave. When I need small cases I tend to look at vintage oddments that may have had totally different purposes.

I keep my K-5 batteries in a perfectly sized Samsonite leather compact camera case. I keep batteries for the W90 and Q in a 1930s ring wallet and a 1940s Zippo lighter wallet respectively.

I'm still on the lookout for the perfetct case for the Q viewfinder, but I will find one eventually. It might even be photographic. Actually, many older external viewfinders had leather cases.....

Not you Jules! I was referring to the overall question.

You are suffering from a longing and state of indecision that plagues many photographers at one time or another.

We buy a lens. Itch for another. Sell the first lens. Regret it. Long to replace it. But what about.....and so on.

It's madness. I suggest you pause, for a month discipline yourself to actually use what you have and make some fine shots. Learn your current kit in depth. By the end of the month you might be able to afford to extend your repertoire with a new lens, without cannibalising the exisiting range.

Just a thought!

If you are going on an important trip to Malaysia in september, then in my opinion your only option is the K-5.

The price is great, buy while you can, and you need to get the camera, test it thoroughly, practice thoroughly, so it's known to be fine and you are full au fait with it before your trip.

I'm sure you don't want to pay double the price to buy something untested and unfamiliar only days before you go?

Do you really want Pentax to make lenses that look and feel cheap as well as being cheap?

Something has to differentiate different marques and one thing, amongst others, that differentiates Pentax is excellent quality of manufacture even with the least expensive lenses in the range.

The Pentax 35mm f2.4 and 50mm f1.8 lenses are the nearest you are going to get and I suspect they will both outlast your son's Canon lens many times over. They will also maintain a better second hand value.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Unfortunately you won't be able to send a PM for a while, but making a reply to comment will hopefully achieve what you want.

It looks fine to me, nothing at all pixellated and noisy. Very strange.