Thread: Pentax K-5 II

Originally Posted by p38arover

The K-30 has been discontinued.

Pentax K-30 Discontinued: A Tribute - Pentax News - PentaxForums.com

Try a K-50

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.

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

Originally Posted by vnx205

maybe I can use some of my lenses from the ME Super if I really want to get a better result.

See How to use/meter Manual & M42 Lenses on all Pentax DSLRs (K-5, K-r, K-x, K-7...) - PentaxForums.com

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. )

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.

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.