Weekend bumpity bumpers bump!

I have that and I prefer it to the 50-200. I like the longer reach, a lot of people absolutely HATE the Chromatic Aberration it produces, but for me I'd rather have an image than none at all. It's much larger than the 50-200 but not that heavy. It's got a lens lock, and at the price you're saying, I'd snap it up.

As long as it is a K mount, it should! If it's a M42, than an adapter will fix that (and an M42 adapter means you can use your old lenses with any particular modern DSLR camera brand). Welcome to the forums by the way.

The K-r is a fantastic camera, superb low light, and it easily has the best bang for your buck in its price class. Although actually handling the camera in your hands will be the best advise I can give.

Looking forward to what you come up with!

Thanks for the tip! I'l seriously consider it, but SRS' 2 year warranty for a bit more looks enticing.

With the recent announcements regarding the K-r, anyone here wanting to off-load theirs?

I really wanted to buy off of SRS (the white K-r, aka The Stormtrooper!) since I'll have a 2 year warranty and I want to support their business, but if anyone can offer me a good price/package, I'd seriously consider it.




I want the white one, but any (manly) colour will do.

Body, body+kit, body+kit+etc., are all welcome. Please indicate shutter count, and details (pics if possible).

Cheers!

I think £150 is a good price, but a price I cannot afford to buy at the moment.

Thanks for all the answers! I really appreciate it. Although it looks like to fully satisfy my curiosity, I will need to pop down to a camera shop and see if they can let me use one of my manual lenses on their demo camera. This will tell if it's a usable feature in the field, if it's totally something different from what I was expecting, or (I hope) it would at the very least match my expectations.

The wife the other day was showing me her "pink" Panasonic GF3 (which she got after selling her "pink" K-x) with it's 14mm 2.8 kit lens, especially the focusing on live view. Considering the camera doesn't have a viewfinder (none, electronic or not, imagine that), on the screen when you focused on a subject, it would magnify and show you that it was successful (or not) in focusing. I found it to be very nifty.

Again, thanks everyone!

Hallo everyone! I hope this December you're all enjoying the festive season. Unfortunately for me, I am without a camera. Yep, sold my Samsung GX-10 to a fellow Pentax User and will soon be in the market for another Pentax (toying with the idea of a Canon, but that's just me always wondering how it is on the other side of the fence).

The K5, I want one, can't justify the price though. Not to the wife LOL. The next best thing, a K-r.

I have a question though, and it is something that I can't seem to find the answer to on any other forums (probably this particular feature is not that documented).

How is focusing using Live View on the K-r?

Is it possible, if so, does it have that "close up" feature that many current cameras have (focusing during live view, the camera's LCD will display a magnified part of the subject where you're focusing)?

If it is not too much hassle, I would appreciate if someone pointed me to a video of the K-r performing a Manual Focus via Live View. I can hope right?

The reason being is that I have some manual lenses (Samyang 85mm 1.4 A, Pentax 50mm 1.7 A, Clubman Macro 28mm 2.8 A, Pentax 50mm 1.7 M) and having such a feature would be very useful!

Thanks for looking, and to those kind enough to share some information my way.

Item is now sold. Thanks for looking.