I'd agree that AF is the main concern with Pentax DSLRs and also add high-ISO image quality. The AF on my K-3 handles more situations than my K200D did but it's no more accurate, and the K200D is old in DSLR terms. Accuracy is the big problem, not speed or number of AF points.

These would be the main two reasons for me to upgrade.

I'd love a 67 of some sort with the 105mm lens but sadly I suspect I wouldn't even be able to replace my 645 if it broke.

There's a camera shop here in Madrid that I believe still has 67 IIs for sale new. I don't know what their price is but they're probably not too much higher than some of the used ones around these days.

Other than the 645 I have two Yashica Mat 124Gs which are nice but less flexible due to their lack of changeable lenses and the slightly slow f/3.5 lens, but they're smaller and lighter so are easier to travel with. I paid €75 for one and £100 for the other, though it came with seven rolls of Portra 160NC in 220 format, which were worth almost that on their own. There's no way you'd find a deal like that these days I think. I paid £125 for the 645 body and considered that a little high at the time, again, there's no way you'd get it for that now.

MF folding cameras are still relatively cheap as the younger folk getting interested in film photography aren't interested enough to want a camera that manual.

Film camera prices have rocketed in the last few years, especially medium format, and medium format lenses. Even crappy compacts that you couldn't give away three years ago now sell for fifty quid or more.

I read on Reddit that the estimated release price, converted directly from Yen, will be around $2500 US. I suspect that this will be an extremely nice camera in every aspect, and a significant upgrade from the preceding K3s and the KP, but that it will be priced well above many FF mirrorless models (and Fujifilm's lovely APS-C mirrorless models too) and that will severely limit it's success. Yes, I know mirrorless isn't for everyone and I know that it will be much better built, weather-sealed etc which FF mirrorless models in the same price bracket won't be, but those are specs that matter less to many people. I'm sure it'll be wonderful and I'd love to have one but I suspect I'll never be able to justify buying one, even if my K3 konks out.

As for the sensor, I'm sure it'll be the standard Bayer array of the 26MP sensor used in the more recent Fujifilm cameras, which is apparently very good but, like many modern sensors, is designed to give a higher read-out speed for video use more than it's designed to improve dynamic range or noise for still photography.

Looks like it comes with the hood - many don't.

Are you sure?

M42 lenses without the A/M switch are usually auto only, not manual only, meaning that the aperture will only close down when the rear pin is depressed. Manual-only would mean that the aperture stopped down as soon as the aperture ring is turned, which is maybe the way that some very old M42 lenses worked as I think the stop-down pin was added a bit later.

Some adapters press the rear pin in so that the lens is always in manual mode, but the genuine Asahi Pentax adapters (which are the ones I have) don't do that.

It's good that DPR give a broader voice to the analogue movement but it's really just a link to an article that would have been written and available anyway.

I may be interested of it has an A/M (auto/manual) switch for the aperture - can you let me know? Thanks

The SRS one is gone, hardly surprising at that price with the grip.

WEX also have a bog-standard K1 with low shutter count: https://www.wexphotovideo.com/pentax-k-1-digital-slr-camera-body-used-1751425/?a...

Well done, it's a very nice image indeed. What did you win? Any more new cameras?