Thanks for the advice everyone, have charger in airing cuboard and will will leave it there for some time bofore trying again next week.

If that fails will get a new charger.

Indeed, i was a bit disturbed when i realised the charger was leaking water as i had just been handling it plugged in etc

When trying to charge the battery for my K30 recently, I put battery in and the light came on and immediately went out. On further inspection I realised that the charger seems to have got water in after leaving it by the window. I left it to dry for a day and tried again with similar experience. I am going to leave it some more to see what happens.

The battery itself still operates the camera OK as it is still half charged.

My question for those more technically minded is, is it likely that I may have damaged the battery preventing it from recharging by trying to charge when there was water in the charger or should the battery be OK? I.E do i need to replace both batter and charger or just charger.

Thanks Mark

I have the Pentax 10-17 Fisheye and used to own Samyang Fisheye, they are both good lenses, the biggest diference i found was that the Samyang would not allow as close focusing as the Pentax lens. I think the nearest the Samyang was approx 30cm but the pentax will allow focusing almost touching the lens.

I never missed AF on the Samyang as it is hard to get it out of focus.

What mode/settings where you using. I could try it on mine to see if i have same problem.

On another camera I have it does not let you use flash when it is set to high speed burst(I spent alot of time trying to figure out why the flash would not fire on that before the penny finally dropped), it thought the K30 would be the same but it still allows the flash to be used and the burst speed is reduced untill the flash recharges.

Amazon do have k30 with Weather resistant 18-55 but its cheaper from SRS who also have the twin lens kit you where looking at in weather resistant versions

It will be sad if they do go, there are a lot of jobs at stake and cameras are somthing that is benficial to try before you buy. No doubt people have been using Jesopps to try the camera before buying from the likes of Amazon for a while.

I agrre with 'smeggypants' the significant decine of compact sales and the shift to online sales are the likley the main factors.

Our local store had a good range of cameras and also stocked Pentax, they also had K30, K5, K01, Q and a small array of lenses. The staff where reasonably helpfull too.

I just tried my Metz flas that i had been using on my K-X on my K30 to see if i suffered a similar problem but I did not experience any problems.

Can you update the firmware for your flash?

Sorry that not much help

I have the K-X and I just bought the K-30 yesterday, primarily for the weather sealing as oposed to image quality - I have always been pleased with the image quality of the KX.

From first impressions the K-30 image quality does seem very good, In RAW I was able to correct the exposure of ISO 1600 & 3200 shoots by 1-2 stops and still retain a reasonable amount detail.

ISO 3200 +1 Stop correction




The camera is great value at the moment

Have a good christmas break from me too

I personally like the warm colours of the original, gives the feel of of the christmas tree being by a a nice fire away from the cold