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Old 10-01-2012, 09:49 AM
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zardos123 (Brad)
new telescope....old eyes

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What about the story that K5 production has ceased?

I see I can buy the body for $911 from Hong Kong plus shipping.

Locally, the GPS Unit is $233 at one online place I have looked.

Tempting.

eric, pentax only have two dslr production lines one for k-r and one for the k-5.....so at the end of a line they produce product for the next six months ,then begin retooling for the next model they generally have an 18month product cycle expect the reports of a new model in the next month or two, hopefully ricoh having just bought pentax from hoya will maintain pentax's habit of making all new models backwards compatible, in fact there is likely to be a big improvement in the implementation of this software if there past behaviour is repeated. It will have to be a big improvment to make me upgrade from the k-5, after 5 or 6 dslr bodies this one ticks all the boxes and is a keeper, there is talk they will put the 24mp sony sensor in to replace the current 16mp if that is the only major change then i,ll stick with the k-5, 16mp is plenty for the stuff i do. there are rumours that they will release a firmware update after the new body to tweek the gps unit
regards brad
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