Originally Posted by pentaxkat 
why buy a new camera? Get a used DS. Unless you need more resolution or want to do action its a great little camera.
No SR, but then the olympus doesn't have that either.
Pentaprism viewfinder almost as good as the old Super A/ME supers. Great for manual focusing. Small, compact, takes AA batteries.
Perfect travel camera. A lot of friends don't even realise its and SLR until I start changing lenses!
I laugh at all the poor reviews when it came out now. Its a cult classic IMO.
And I will third it, my DS and K100D with 35mm or 50mm (MF) primes are small and light weight, very handy and quite capable cameras. It would have been nice to see Pentax either retain the K100D super in the line priced to compete with the D40 or introduce a very slightly modified K100Ds to continue competing in the very bottom part of the market.
And I'll add, that if you check amazon, the K200d is in the top 10 bestselling DSLR cameras, and the K20D is in the top 25, at least when I checked this morning.