I had a K7 (same body spec as the K5) and moved to a K30, the only body control I miss is the metering mode switch (spot, centre weight, matrix). I don't miss the top LCD like I thought I would, the only other button missing from a K30 is the focus mode and I use centre focus point 90% of the time anyway. Can't comment on focus speed or image quality as I've never had a K5, it way above the K7 though.

Lens arrived yesterday in excellent condition, seems a nice lens. Thanks

After recently taking up amazons cheap K-01 and 40mm XS I need to sell my 18-250 to fund the purchase. I have not used the lens as much recently and now I have the K-01 along with the K-30 and can cover the focal lengths of this lens with the two bodys and lenses. The lens is in reasonable condition and works fine, however I do not have the original caps or hood, it comes with a hama lens cap and generic end cap. I also have no box but the item will be well packed for postage. It does have a Kood skylight filter attached. I found this lens to be a small step up in image quality from the kit lens I had at the time but tend to use my faster lenses more now, but held onto to this as it is very useful for occasions were you can't swap lenses. I'm looking for £185 including RMSD, I can accept bank transfer or paypal.

I'm glad Adobe have made photoshop a standalone option rather than having to subscribe to the whole creative suite as before. I upgraded to CS5 and got the free upgrade to CS6 at a very reasonable cost last year so am in no hurry to subscribe yet, but when tempting new features become available at least I wont have a huge outlay in one go to gain access to these features. I don't believe its financial suicide for Adobe, I've tried some alternatives and they are simply not as good, Adobe have an excellent product and they are the industry standard with good reason. It would be good if the bundled lightroom with photoshop in the subscription or gave the option for this as a small increase in subscription.

Me too

I agree but I also try and avoid the sidecar being saved where possible because as far as I can see if you open the RAW again in photoshop it reapplies the sidecar changes. Where I can't avoid getting sidecar's seems to be going from ACR to photoshop, if I apply exposure compensation I see the change in bridge even if I didn't save the RAW in photoshop, not a big issue because as you say the RAWs still the same and I can reopen in ACR and set the compensation back to 0, its just I like the RAW to remain original for the most part, I have PSDs and JPEGS to see my interpretations of it

I couldn't agree more with Jim on this, no software is destructive, just users chose to use it destructively. I have photoshop CS6, I never save any changes to the RAW but always create a separate PSD file for mods, I'd want to keep any layers anyway. If I didn't have CS6 I'd pick elements over lightroom, I grew up with MS-DOS and like to know where everything is in terms of disks and folders (i.e. catalogue myself), I'm probably just getting old but can't seem to get on with modern software that hides disks/folders etc from the user.

My son got a new cap for easter and posed for some shots a the local slide. I've been very impressed with the K30's autofocus compared to my previous K7 and K10, not to mention the DR. These were taken with a tamron 17-50 2.8, @f2.8 and f4.0. I have found the K30 much more accuate to focus at wider apertures and my FA50 1.4 is a lot more usable on it.

C+C most welcome

Sold again.

Still Available.