Originally Posted by RiceHigh 
Your wishlist are mostly about features and performance aspects that other DSLR makers have now but not Pentax and indeed that's what I have been asking for but then you just don't agree with me from time to time.
It sounds like that, but not the same. The previous models were both priced well below what you wanted. Why should a camera priced like a rebel be better than a Canon 40D at every little aspect? The K10D was an advanced camera, but not meant to be used for professionals, but people of great talent purchased this camera and saw it was more than a base camera.
Pentax did an amazing thing and I'll explain it here:
They developed two cameras (K100D and K10D) and wanted to see which would appeal more to the photo enthusiast. They truly thought the market had no place for a camera like the K10D and made the price low enough that people would see the true value of all those features it has versus a true comparable camera at nearly $500 more so at least it would sell. Once Pentax had the K10D circulated it watched and listened to what users loved and hated about the camera. Originally Pentax was taken back by the demand and also seeing that many of the people who purchased the K10D wanted something a little better or tweaks to certain features. The K10D sales increase exponentially to the point that Pentax is selling the camera faster than imagined and not the camera they felt was going to sell so fast. The K10D sold and sold and they listened to the user base and began to develop the K20D. After dismissing the Sony sensor because of cost/availability and the fact it's not an advancement over the Canon sensor technology which the current Pentax crowd compares most of their work too. After six months of listening to the new Pentax user base that has formed they developed a new camera and began production of a new sensor and base mode/settings and features of the new body. The new body took form right before October and was about to be announced soon, but the plan failed due to issues with Hoya wanting to be a bigger part of the camera development. Pentax removed a few features in order to make room for more features in the K20D, including an upgraded menu system with cleaner menu's, more customization, better control and some hardware components that should bring the house down come later this month. Instead of being a revolutionary camera based on it's shear value for the dollar and being just being capable of producing great results the new flagship, until next Christmas at least, will be an innovative leader. The camera will have many if not most of the truly important features covered plus a leap in the right direction for Pentax in terms of whizbang features you guys didn't know could exist.
This is the reason I didn't care RH, I knew the camera was meant to be a great camera capable of better things, yet not perfect. Capable is a big word and the K10D is the most capable camera ever made at the price. I can get professional results with the camera and achieve almost everything I'd ever want to do, even sports, as long as I work with the camera and not ask it to do what I know it cannot do. Now that the Pentax will be bringing in a bargain pro-sumer model soon you and I will have a great time talking camera again because I think you'll be happy, but there will be a few things people won't like. I already don't like some aspects of the camera, but what I get far outweighs these minuses 110%. This is why I talk about the next-next camera, because Pentax is working on it and as soon as the K20D hits the flock of news channels this month they will be working hard at their next development. I already know a few things about the next-next camera and it's been brought up, so rest assured they are listening again to the costumer base trying to get that perfect balance of features for dollar so when Christmas hits we can waste all our hard earned money on another body.