Originally posted by gtl I meant no offense. Was just thinking of how he could switch systems since his experience with Pentax repair is so bad and Ricoh seems to be jacking up prices. I see the OP has gotten a replacement K5, congrats. The K5 is really a great camera and should serve its owner for a good couple of years.
None taken. I doubt that there'd have been much chance that the experience would have been greatly different if he'd dropped any other brand of camera, though. As for prices, I think that Pentax might still have an overall advantage over equivalent systems, in spite of the recent changes and despite some anomalies noted elsewhere. They still need to make changes to lens and body lineups, but that's another story.