Sold pending payment

Still available, also found the hotshoe cover the other day, so its just missing the flash sync cover

I have just purchased a K30 as I need the higher ISO capability to capture my very energetic toddler. Hence I need to sell the K7 to fund this before MBNA/Bank/Wife find out

The K7 is in very good condition, Shutter Count 13700, it has original box and accessories, and has a spare generic battery. Only problems are missing flash sync and hotshoe covers.

£260 including RMSD

I'll be away this weekend so am unable to post until Monday.

I went into a Jessops last weekend and also meet a pentax shirted employee with a K30 round the neck. I played around with the K30 and was looking at live view to see the focus peaking, which wasn't switched on. When I asked about the feature, the pentax rep had no idea what it was or where to switch it on. In the end being familiar with the K7 menus, I found the setting and switched it on and proceeded to demonstrate the feature to the pentax rep! I would have thought this was a feature that would help differentiate between models and pentax reps should be pushing it.

I got my K30 a few days ago and have a K7, the K7 is a lot quieter, I find the shutter noise on the K30 also sounds much less refined. For me I'd like it to be quieter but the benefits of the low noise and extra dynamic range more than make up for it and am glad I made the move.

I decided to go with the K30 and picked one up at the weekend, not had a lot of time to play with it yet, but initial impressions coming from a K7 are:

- Body does feel a bit light (not flimsy though), and the shutter noise is louder and also a less refined sound.
- So far have not really missed the top LCD as much as I thought.
- Auto focus is much more positive (less adjusting) this has been mentioned in reviews and is noticeable, in fact I'm having trouble getting used to it as I'm listening for more adjustments before pressing the shutter
- Image quality at high iso is much better as expected
- Matrix metering seems more accurate, haven't need to change to spot or centre or dial in much compensation, so I hopefully won't miss the external controls too much.
- Flash exposure is much better with the pop up flash.
- I've mainly used higher iso values this weekend but when I used iso 100 it seemed a bit less grainy than the K7 more like the K10s low iso which I preferred, will have to try on more subjects, I always found skies a little grainy on the K7.
- Not had change to play with the raw files yet to see how much shadow detail I can pull out.

Overall I'm very impressed at the price I paid, not sure I'd have been as happy if I'd paid £599 or even £499 though, it does feel less impressive to hold than the K7.

Tamron 17 50 arrived safely yesterday well packed and as described. Hopefully that extra stop or so of light might enable me to capture some toddler action more successfully.

One other minor concern I have is the shutter noise, does anyone have any experience of the K30 vs K7 shutter noise? My K7 is nice and quiet, I briefly had a K-R and thought that was very noisy .

I'm in the same dilemma now, have a K7, was looking to upgrade to a K5 at some point. Now the K30 price means I could get it now, I know I'll miss the top LCD and metering switch, but I'll gain the high ISO performance and I think that will be worth it. I have one concerns though, What is this K30 price going to do the price of used K7's? I'll need to sell to fund the purchase. Is this a permanently lower price for the K30, or does everyone think it'll revert back up again soon. So far only a couple of retailers seem to have it at £369.

For me the most striking difference beyond the colour casts it the detail in the cloud, Image 1 has much sharper distinctive shapes in the cloud, image 2 looks much more wispy. I'd be interested to know how they actually looked when shot. Difficult to tell at these resolutions but the cloud in image 2 also appears slightly noisier despite being softer.