Great fun. A lovely image. For me the darkness works. It helps imply the clandestine opportunistic nature of these little furry beasts.

I think it is trying to be a different kind of camera to the K-3. An attempt to attract a different group of buyers and thus expand the range and customer base. However to attract new customers I think it would be wise to have a body and lens kit available to get people started with the brand (I'm sure it will be close behind).
The price to us that are used to Pentax seems high but perhaps not to all. When I look at the prices of some other brands with recent releases maybe it is not so high, it gives Pentax room for manoeuvre anyhow.
It's disappointing that at the price point the grips are cost extras in the UK.
To me it looks like a lovely camera I wish it well, BUT as I have a K5II and a K-S2 the K-S2 bought with the 18-135mm lens genuine UK stock for under £400 there is not enough to tempt me on this occasion.
I would agree that anyone not wanting the most recent release the K-3II is the much better buy.
It is nice to have the latest though!

Hopefully the different grips will come in the box.
Struggling to see the point of the different grips at the moment, I'm sure all will become clear.

I've not noticed any comments of mine missing. Your comments on photographs or in the forums? Or both!?

Tough one, not much in it for me , but overall I'd go for the Right hand what looks like B&W image.

Beautiful creative landscape, right up my street, glad I clicked through to have a look. I wonder if a little could be cropped off the right hand side? Worth a little play maybe, but I love it the way it is.

Very interesting.
Thank you for putting this together Bill.

Best regards
Nigel

I shouldn't think they would do that on the flagship model, it would be "courageous" I was thinking continued advances in sensor technology and electronics, my guess is the pixel count will remain the same.
On a side note, a 24 mega pixie FF would be the only thing that might tempt me away from APS-C sized sensor. Fun to speculate.

I don't know about the camera body but I guess we'll see the 16-50* and 50-135* lenses updated this year. The camera bodies already do more than I need. Sometimes it seems like a race to see who can add the most bells and whistles. A step forward in noise management/reduction would be good.

Lovely set. I really like your observational style. Looking forward to seeing more over 2017.