I couldn't wait any more and went out today and got myself a shiny new K-5 from Michaels in Melbourne. I didn't get the bargain price of the year award, but then again, neither was I trying to.
From the few test shots that I have taken, the image quality is first rate, the AF works wonderfully well, machine gun mode rattles like... well, a machine gun, and some of the new features like auto HDR are very funky indeed.
I have one problem though, I cannot get the images to auto-rotate like they do on my k-7. I have checked the manual, checked all the settings, done everything I can think of.
Has anyone else had this problem? I'm pretty sure, being a k-7 owner that I have set the various menu items correctly. Could this be an 'undocumented' feature?
For the record-
in playback menu item 4 'auto image rotation' is set to 'on'
in custom menu item 23 'saving image rotation info' is set to 'on'
What have I missed?