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That is why the K-30 is now available at such a good price. The K-50 apparently costs less than the K-30 did when it was released, but the K-30 has dropped a lot since it was discontinued.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
There don't seem to me to be enough improvements in the K-50 to justify the difference in cost; about $350 more.
The K-500 is just slightly dearer than the K-30, but doesn't have the weather resistance of the K-30 and K-50 and is missing one or two other features that sound useful.
Your Pentax lenses will operate with a new DSLR albeit with some reduced functionality, autofocus probably being the main one.
Martyn
See How to use/meter Manual & M42 Lenses on all Pentax DSLRs (K-5, K-r, K-x, K-7...) - PentaxForums.comQuote:
Originally Posted by vnx205
Thanks for that. I've bookmarked the article. One of the reasons I have put off buying a DSLR is that I was too lazy to do the research to learn whether my existing Pentax lenses could be used with the new camera. I knew some things wouldn't work or would need a work-around, but I think I could cope with doing things as described in that link.
I would have felt bad about having good lenses sitting around not being used, so I didn't want to follow the herd and buy a Canon or Nikon. It seems that some of the new Pentax cameras are much better than most people realise. (Just like Land Rovers. :D )
Pentax K-mount A lenses work perfectly and easily with Pentax DSLRs. Just set the lens aperture ring to A and let the camera control the aperture. Manual focus, of course.
I have a couple of M42 lenses from my Spotmatic days that, with the K-mount adapter I bought in 1989, work brilliantly. The auto-focus lenses I bought with my Pentax SFx in '89 work perfectly with the DSLRs.
A few weeks back, I picked up a Pentax Z-10 film camera, Pentax F 35-105mm Macro, Sigma 70-300mm Macro, Achiever 630AF flash, three camera bags (including one Crumpler) and accessories for $40
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You could ask Khos (Disco_owner) if he is still selling his K-5. I was going to buy it when he got the K-5IIS but he went Nepal with it and I bought one while he was away.
I was looking at selling my K-5 prior to my trip to kathmandu but decided to take it along as a backup body and then sell it after I got back from the Trek ,but by this time Ron had picked up a realy great deal on a K5 II and a Kit lens from memory ?
However I can't bring myself to selling the K-5 Body anymore , specially to a Fellow Aulro Forum member , it's pretty badly battererd and Bruised , the built in flash Won't pop up , Guide rails are salwater corroded now and it needs an urgent service and clean , but camera functions are still fine.:eek:
Allan I Highly recommend the k-30 & Da18-135 kit Lens , K-30 uses the Prime-M processing engine as apposed to the Prime II ,it proceses images faster than my K-5 or K-5 IIs. read / Write to the card is quicker. I also had a play around with one and in Liveview AF is superfast , I had he FA 31 Limited lens on it when I tested it.:twisted:
Thanks to the information and reassurance from Ron, Khos and Martyn, I have bought the DSLR equivalent of a Land Rover, ie one that is in many ways a better product, but is ignored or dismissed by the majority.
As I mentioned earlier, I had my heart set on a Pentax K-30. However I finished up with a K-500. http://www.pentaxforums.com/reviews/...roduction.html
I had hoped that the K-30 would be available at heavily discounted prices since it was discontinued, but finding it at a good price in an Australian outlet with the WR lens wasn't easy. That started me thinking that if my lens wasn't weather resistant, what was the point of a weather resistant body. I hadn't found a problem in the last 50 years using non WR cameras, so I figured I could manage with a non WR camera now.
So on Thursday, I ordered a K-500 from a Western Australian outlet and it arrived this morning (Monday). I would have saved less than $50 buying it from overseas and when I read reviews of those outlets, a typical score was 289 Excellent, 40 Good, 17 Fair and 29 Terrible. Almost always the "terrible" scores were given because of warranty issues or customer service. So I decided that the peace of mind of buying from an Australian outlet was worth a few extra dollars.
So far I have established that it works (thanks to the information in the article Ron provided) with my 33 year old 50mm 1.4 lens from my ME Super and with my 28mm lens and a Tamron 28-200. Because I had those lenses available, I decided that keeping the price down by getting the camera just with the 18-55 lens made sense.
A few shots taken inside in poor light don't show an obvious difference between the 50mm prime and the 18-55mm kit lens. Maybe there might be a more discernible difference with shots taken in better light with lower ISO settings.
Now I need it to stop raining so that I can take a few photos. The rain isn't a problem because of the non WR body and lens, but because the light is just so dismal. :p