Watch impress jp are showing body armour for it too...

Mike P's new set up!
Three of these from me, I wish!

Nikon D750 tribute version, now that is a proper light leak!

Sure does look biiig on that little K3

Your right of course steve, plenty of options for controlling the thing remotely, I'll get round to a wifi Pentax eventually, likely when they put it on a K3 (K-S3?) replacement, doubt I'll bother buying a Flucard for the K3 unless they continue with it in the next model (Doubtful now I'd say). I had it on my Fuji X-T1 which nigh halved the battery life form a very poor 250 shots down to just over a hundred and fifty and that was just switching it on and having a bit of a play around with the smart phone app rather than transferring loads of data, it's a power muncher.
It would seem also it has the superior K3 type of sensor cleaning which is nice because it actually does seem to work!
It's a little power house, if it does not sell well there is simply no justice in the world, my wallet is getting palpatations

Got the DSTE, and like it, the wheels are plastic and a little more recessed than the Pentax one there are no seals on the battery compartment but to be honest that part fits into the body of the grip better than the pentax one, it's supposedly sealed for dust and moisture (Whatever that means?). The on off switch on mine does not quite line up with the marks and is a little notchy but works fine, the grip is very robust in feel and the rubber is one of the better matches I've seen. All in all worth the money in the same way that the Pentax one isn't...
I contacted DSTE about the on off switch and they told me that it will likely loosen up with use but if I was not happy they would replace it as long as I hadn't abused it, it has not had much use yet but I can't really see there being any problems in the long run...
The Kingma I've heard of but never seen, quite likely the very same thing, you know what the chinese are like...

Only one Algi!

Specs from the American pentax site seem to indicate only one...
http://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/pentax-k-s2-officially-announce...

Looking at the back I can't see anything resembling an IR port... Pity

K30: EV -1 to 18 (ISO 100) Had to download the manual to find it!

I had read somwhere Adrian, that the original Spec (Rumoured) was a dumbed down version of the K3 meter and focus, a 29,000 zone RGB colour meter and fifteen focus points as you suggest, they are the only slight let downs in otherwise a fabulously well specced camera, I would however not have ever expected to see minus EV3 focus capability on a body at this price. With a long sigh, I also cannot disagree with you on the the perceptions of the majority, having recently had an encounter with someone at a very wet/rainy/stormy buttermere shooting a Canon 5D MkIII and put an abrupt end to his willy waving contest, after he said but your'e a pro that means you must shoot Canikon? How could you produce work of decent quality if you don't shoot Canikon? You should get one of these (5DMkIII and 24-105mm F4 USM)! Anything else is just not up to the job, I have no idea how yours could still be working in this rain? With that I stuck my K3 with the 17-70 SDM (Yes the 17-70 SDM in there)! :arrow:




Took it back out after a few seconds and then took the shot above with it (Must admit I had a sweat on because the 17-70 ain't sealed but I have always suspected that it sort of was!), and said "now you"! He looked on pretty incredulous then turned away and stormed off, saying "Pentax users huh, your all amateurs and a bunch of mad B@$^$£ds"

Moral: Don't bring a knife to a Gunfight!

Digressing over, K-S2 Looks like a winner to me, the more I look the more my wallet starts to twitch...