Originally posted by lammie200 PRICL was offering a substantial rebate on the K-5 months before the K-30 was announced.
I know (although "substantial" is a relative term). I was about ready to cave in and buy one during that rebate period, but I knew that would ensure that the K-r's replacement would have exactly what I want, so I held off. Besides, we all knew the K-5's $999 rebates were the result of soon-to-be announced new models.
Originally posted by lammie200 In addition retailers were offering lower than the original MSRP for quite a long time before that. Nothing even remotely similar from Canon with 7D pricing AFAIK.
Once again, I agree, but I didn't want to buy one from a NON-official Pentax reseller.
Originally posted by lammie200 IMHO PRICL will have no issues selling the remaining stock of K-5's.
I'm sure you are right. My point, which I did not make clear, is that K-5 sales may be slower than they would otherwise be without the competition of the K-30; and they might be a bit slower than they would otherwise be if Pentax were to upgrade the K-5 in one or two ways via a firmware update.
Originally posted by lammie200 (I also think that when the PRICL official commented that there would be 4 Pentax dSLR's this year they were including the K-5. It might just stay in production for most of the year...
That's a very reasonable theory -- and all the more reason to spice it up (aka "modernize" it) a little to fit the times.
Originally posted by lammie200 I also believe that the K-30 is the K-r replacement and for as many similarities it has to the K-5, there are probably as many differences.
True (12-bit RAW vs 14-bit RAW, as Anvh reminded me, no audio input, only a mono mic to support that excellent video quality, no focus peaking in video, a louder shutter, no top LCD, etc.), but, so far, the similarities (so to speak) slightly outweigh the differences, as far as what I want. I'm clearly not alone in this sentiment (for whatever that is worth
).
Originally posted by lammie200 I am good with my K-5 and K-r. They pretty much do everything that I need them to do, and they might be the last APS-c dSLR's that I will own.
If and when I buy a DSLR, it will probably be the only one I ever own (where is the "sardonic" emoticon when you need one?)