And sold... thanks for looking

It's good news all round... I might get one unboxed, or perhaps someone's 17-70 f4 cast-off

That's great. I wish they'd unlock the intervalometer on the K-7 though... 99 images, what's that, four seconds of timelapse? Genius....

How is this fixed Stefan? I have tried FocusMagic, which seems to work quite well (setting it to correct vertical motion blur of about 3 pixels).

By the way the effect is verrry slight, just annoyingly consistent, and it doesn't do the rendering of brickwork or fine grasses any favours

But after a few days of being rather horrified, I've chilled out a bit as the camera is just so nice apart from this little 'glitch.' I have 'bonded' with it... lol. I just hope the K5 has a slightly more dampened - or completely new - shutter.

Great news! Hope they sell plenty

Wonder who's acting as distributor/product support, as these were cited as initial hurdles to releasing it here. SRS?

Hope they'll get a rental model!

Only Pentax...

The K-7 really is quite decent at high iso, especially in good light, as these pictures show.

The price is absolutely ridiculous. I like the concept very much, but i'd want to pay more like 300.00 for what is essentially a simple piece of kit compared to a DSLR. The styling is great but it's the functionality that appeals to me - a bare-bones compact with a great sensor and uncompromising iq. Perhaps there still is room for a manufacturer like Pentax to step in as there's no reason why such a thing need be vastly expensive.

Spectacular, Iqbal. Colours are out of this world.

It's a PK fit.