It's all good. Providing it's well priced and DSLRs will continue alongside, for a while at least. A little bit concerned about the design guru they've employed for it as personally I like the back-to-basics designs Fuji have been coming out with. Let's hope they gave him an MX to use as inspiration. And keeping it nearly as thick as a K5 is also a concern, but who knows, maybe they've implemented Don's excellent idea of new lenses which would fit halfway into the throat of the K-mount...

Hilarious. Just like all the other security guard confrontation videos out there, but directed by Shane Meadows!

Surely that's a bit like saying you need FA ltds to get the best from Pentax? I'm sure Canon has plenty of non L glass equivalent to Pentax's offerings, and there are primes like the 50/f1.8 or 135/f1.8 which look pretty tempting and are actually cheaper than the equivalent second hand Pentax lenses (for there are no new equivalents available). The Canon kit lens also looks excellent. You can even get a Tokina 16-50 and get the *exact* equivalent of a DA* lens for much less money! Or a Tokina 12-24...

I remain committed to Pentax, prefer the small bodies and beautifully crafted DA Ltds, but let's not imagine that Canon users have it hard, in any way!

You've thrown a lot of money away changing systems twice... I'd snag a used Kr / Kx and Pentax 18-250 (there's one of those in the classifieds now - get it, as they don't come up too often!)

Have you considered Nikon? The D5100 looks good...

It's all very interesting and tantalising, in terms of where this is going to sit in the product range - is it going to be an entry level Kr replacement, or a 'pro-spec' compact body with WR etc? It's too early to say really....

Less mechanical parts also means less vibration and sharper pictures. They're possibly also taking the shutter out of the equation, thinking back to Mr. Kitazawa. As well as eliminating shutter blur entirely, that would open up insanely fast burst rates... Ultra fast burst rates is a bit of a Ricoh speciality and they can use it to capture the same shot several times and then process the captures into one image with less noise, more detail, and more dynamic range. Sony's also doing quite a bit of this but Ricoh pretty much pioneered it.

The K5 is about 6.1cm thick - counting the lens mount, but ignoring the grip.

Jessops have a 14 day returns policy (yes you can open and use the item, within reason). SRS offer better warranty and customer service in general though.

Interesting colour range... black and white, white and black, black and yellow.

59mm width's a bit fat though! I'm trying to imagine what my K7 would look like without the pentaprism or the big grip...

Cool video on the K5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yp6Do7OM84

And the same guy's thoughts on the Pentax system in general:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJlMNHXsvQ