No other manufacturers have made K mount DSLRs for quite a while.
I'd second Stu's suggestion of a K5, but think you should be able to track one down for no more than £250.

It might be worth getting a quote for repairing your Kr before deciding what to do.

I keep looking but recent boot sales have been quite low on camera gear. I did see 3 tripods last time but all were flimsier than my cheapest backup. I didn't rate them as worth carrying back to the car, so never enquired on the price. A few charity shops in the area sometimes have some nice bits too, but only one has stuff regularly.

The best I've managed to date was a Practica MTL-5 camera & 3 lens kit for £10. The lenses included where a CZJ Tessar 50/2.8, CZJ MC 135/3.5 & CZJ Flektagon 35/2.4 all in good condition. e-bay sold prices suggest the last of these could be worth £200

The runner up is a Tamron model 52BB (SP90 F2.5 macro) for £1. [IIRC it even came with a PK adapter. Admittedly it is in cosmetically poor condition but the optics were reasonably clean & it takes good pictures.]

All great shots, and all of species I've yet to see!
TFS

Thanks just about to leave to grab my spot for today.
I might bump into you on Sunday at Rockingham, I'm taking along a couple of friends from the club.

Excellent set Pete, MUCH better than any I got.

Gels are often used for control of lighting rather than for imaging through. For lighting the scratches won't make any difference.
If they where sold as lighting gels I'm not convinced you'd have any comeback, if their listing suggests they can be used for imaging then you have good grounds IMO.

Unfortunately they do scratch very easily, or I'm sure they'd be much more popular.

2 stops faster than my current 1000mm & MUCH better IQ.
Very tempting except the price is somewhat more than my lens fund has available...

I find for normal type 10 stop adjustments it's fairly easy to set the camera up in manual to have suitable settings with out the filter, then fit the filter & simply count stops as you turn the wheels for aperture/ISO/shutter speed adjustments (counting back down if you want to turn one control in the wrong direction) till you get to a total of 10.
This of course falls down if you get beyond 30s, but it's pretty easy to work out from the number remaining.

Rather than using a remote (which I can rarely find when I need it) the cameras 2s self timer is usually adequate.

That's all very true of really long exposures, as most shots using 10 stoppers are, but not all shots through these filters are long exposures.
Using welding glass that is roughly 18 stops I've photographed the sun & my resultant exposures where small fractions of a second (1/500 springs to mind). Note unlike normal ND filters, welding glass blocks UV & IR as well. Photographing the sun through a normal 10 stop filter will likely result in 'eclipse blindness'... No doubt there will be thousands of cases of this on Monday.
Many less extreme subjects (eg. shallow DOF in bright light) may end up with exposures around 1s, and a 10s difference here will be significant.

I've played with a few different versions of these . IIRC mine all have a series 7 thread & need a metric to series adapter. Stacking a stepping ring or two could perhaps make issues, but I managed to have a IR filter between the lens & the adapter without any noticeable focus issues.

I did pick up a Raynox wide angle adapter (which clips on small lenses the same way their close up lenses do). It wouldn't focus on anything so I suspect the macro part is missing though there no clear place for it to fit - I only paid £3 & got it for the mounting more than the lens so I'm not really bothered.