now at 1389 with free shipping from b+h... the 2 year extended warranty is 19.95, but out of stock right now... still on pentax imaging usa for 1599-..... so in the relatively short time the k-5's been on sale... we've seen the price drop more than 200 bucks.... still debating about getting a mint k-7 with almost 3 years of warranty coverage for less than 700... or waiting and watching to see how low the k-5 will go............
gotta believe that if the k-5 didn't have the globally recognized stain of shame (glad new inventory seems to be ok) and now the well documented ff issues, to date without any whiff of a firmware release date.. we'd might not have seen a 13% price drop this soon...
nobody's gonna convince me pentax has not taken a financial smack upside the head on the k-5 so far... considering the untold number of return(s) of new and repaired bodies to customers.... glad i'm not the cfo of pentax hoya.....