As he says, K-adapters are available for the NEX and he is happy to manually focus his lenses. The NEX also makes a case for itself as a top-quality travel camera in its own right if you slap a 16mm pancake lens on it.

Although in his shoes, I'd get a used K-x as a cheap and good back up.

It would be slightly smaller. But the main benefits are it would be cheaper (or at least have a bigger profit margin for Pentax :wink... and it would be much better for video, sports (no mirror blackout), even manual focusing would be easier with 'peaking' or with some sort of 'virtual split focus' or a zoomed portion of the centre of image.

Apart from being able to use K-mount lenses, another benefit of staying relatively big (compared to Sony NEX et al - it would still be smaller than a Kr) is that the body will be better balanced on zoom lenses.

My thinking is that it is unlikely Pentax will introduce a fourth lens line (645, Q, K, ...K2?). Although with Ricoh at the controls, who knows!

I agree. Second hand prices for AF primes shows there's a market out there, and there's no reason Pentax can't come along and introduce 'DA-L' versions of lenses like the 28mm/f2.8, 50mm/f1.7 and sell them at a lower price than they currently fetch on ebay - this is exactly what they did with the 35mm/f2.4. Plastic mounts, no hoods, no quick shift, no aperture ring? I can live with that on a cheap lens if the IQ is up there, and Pentax can certainly deliver on that front.

Lucky you! I would take a wide angle to capture the interior of the cockpit Dave, and a medium telephoto for picking off details of the landscape if you get chance.

Shouldn't you have been there with her instead of watching a play?

The rumours were that Pentax would unveil a small-sensored mirrorless camera in summer followed by an APSC model in autumn. Turned out the first part of the rumour was true, so it seems quite possible the second part will be true also.

Personally I don't think the second mirrorless model will aspire to be particularly small compared to the competition. I think they'll just use the K-mount and make an EVIL version of the Kr, a bit smaller, quite a lot cheaper, better for video.

Maybe a tad soft, but not unacceptably so for max aperture IMO (I haven't done any sharpening to the shot at all).

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(Sorry! Totally hijacking this thread :blush

Funny you should say that John, check this out on my new DA15mm.




It vastly improves on stopping down to f8 (although the soft band on the RHS is still just perceptible) but surely this ain't right?

Well I've seen plenty of stroppy threads about the lack of affordable primes both here and on the other forum. I think primes play to Pentax's strengths in assembling a lightweight kit with high iq. It's just not the go-to brand for sports etc. But if people do want to do that sort of photography, sigma lenses are available and are more affordable than Pentax ones would be.

Yes please, Ricoh! More 'DA-L' primes.

And please put WR sealing in the DA ltds too, so they match better with the upper end (sealed) bodies.

A good starter lens for the K10D would be the newer version of the kit lens link

It's cheap, light, and matches the weather sealing on your K10D. Oh it's not optically too bad either. There are better out there but the weather sealing is just so useful.