Perhaps it was better when DP just left their verdict at 'Recommended' or 'Highly Recommended' and let people make their own minds up about whether they rated this particular camera above that one.

I have never got the impression that DP are biased, and bought my istDL2 ('Recommended') and K200D ('Highly Recommended - just!') after checking their reviews and samples. The K-7 got 'Highly Recommended' before they switched to percentage scores and relegated it to 74%....

Hi Andy. Which camera have you asked Santa for?

I agree with Ian, re the mount.

Ergonomics, weather sealing, laissez faire approach to in-camera processing (up to the K-7 at least), well thought out controls etc are just the icing on the cake.

That is sad... they don't make them like that anymore.

And the Pentax User Pedant of 2010 award goes to...

Yes, that's probably a safe bet

I always hope the extra help from the shake reduction would easily get you over the 1.5 crop factor thing Barrie, and then some. The focal length = shutter speed thing is just a guide though, as you might have a particularly steady hand, or a severe case of the DTs

Not noticing a fault isn't the same as not having it though. The poll could be skewed by newcomers who have only come to this website because they have a problem, but there do seem to be a high number of long standing members who have found their K-5 is affected... 5% seems a bit optimistic in light of this. Perhaps that figure is skewed because people haven't noticed the issue yet?

Say a car had a fault where the brakes cut out above 100mph. Half the number of cars sold had the fault, but only 10% of the owners of those cars realised something was wrong (most people don't drive that fast normally). Does that mean that only 5% of the cars are affected (10% of 50%) or 50%?

Cosina 100mm f3.5 is another option

Chris, there are other ways of controling ISO which permit control of aperture and shutter speed as well... e.g.you can dedicate the front 'wheel' to control ISO when in Av mode. But I guess you can also dedicate the front wheel to control aperture in Sv mode if you wanted! I love the customisability of the K-7.