Last bump, this is a good price for a camera with very minor issue and a original spare battery.

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Actually, lets make it £150 .

Ok, updated price, £160.
Or make me an offer.

Bought it from SRS as refurbished one with full warranty.
It comes with box and all bits (manual, cables, ...).
Around 17300 shutter clicks according to exif info.
Spare battery included (original Pentax one).

Sometimes this camera produces image with a vertical strip with a bit different hue on the leftmost couple of pixels. This happens on some occasions and usually is not clearly visible anyway, not a big problem in most situations. It has been serviced by Pentax for this, they replaced sensor board/sensor, but it didn't help.

Most of pictures I've uploaded into gallery here were taken with this camera (couple oldest ones were with K10D).

Can meet you in London if you prefer/would like to check camera yourself.

£180 delivered to UK address, will be sent upon clearance of payment (bank transfer).


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You can check focus accuracy using one of many focus charts, one example:
http://pentaxdslrs.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/part-1-autofocus-adjustment-for-pentax...

Or just using whatever you have around, that will give you a chance to "read" results, look at the chart and you will get the idea.

So, came back from holiday, looking at pictures taken with K30 bought recently and plenty of them are not in focus with clear front focusing. But some have focus correct (significantly less then 50% overall).
I did run a quick test just before travel and applied front focus correction to particular lens I was taking with me (tamron 18-250), but it didn't help at the end as I've found.

So I run a bit of tests today, trying couple of lenses and:
- tamron 18-250mm - strong front focus, but focusing seems to be inconsistent, from time to time focusing error is different (same focal length), different focal length may give different focus error as well. Tried also focus with live view and it tend to give strong back focus, but again is not consistent. Both focusing errors are outside camera adjustment range (-10 - +10).
- pentax 60-250mm, some front focus again, focusing bit inconsistent as well, again live view focusing can give completely different result.
- pentax 100mm f2.8 macro, slight front focus, live view focusing gives consistent results.
- tamron 90mm f2.8 macro - as 100mm one.

So I would guess camera need slight correction for front focus - believing in results based on two primes, but this is not going to help with some lenses (individual correction out of range and sometimes results completely different with phase or contract focusing).
Anyone noticed similar issues with K30?

Wasn't going to buy it before today, but seeing this offer I've got my card out of the wallet.

In fact I've noticed this price last night, it was before SRS website fully updated, so on the first page it still had old price, but when I clicked on the product (seeing extra info about cashback) it had lower. First though was that maybe it is price mistake, but found the same price on different shop website, so decided to place order, but also not post it on forum, rather drop Chris a message first.

If it sells as it sells now, why do you think increasing in price would make people more likely to buy it.
Doesn't matter if it is Pentax top model, it has to comparable with competitors and still competitive on the market- on technical level and price level. Could ask a question, why Nikon/Canon doesn't price their top APS-C at 2k level.
Currently Pentax doesn't offer anything (in comparison to other brands) that would back pricing K5II at such high price tag.

Before they release own FF Nikon and Canon wil have another model on the market, Pentax shouldn't compete with D600, rather with next one Nikon will release , but if you read this interview, this guy do realize they have to have something different/special
Also FF without good set of FF lenses, not going to be a big success.