Originally posted by Mistral75 Pentax probably fixed the AF trouble of the K5, at last.
24MP is quite a large pixel density in APS-C - larger files, not really more detail.
It will be interesting to know whether there will be two card slots and whether the K5 battery grip will fit. Old design appears to survive so old accessories should survive as well.
The K3 so far looks like a slightly improved K5II which only solved some trouble present in the K5. The K3 is at least one year late. To make up for this delay the next K camera should be around the corner assuming that Ricoh has a decent marketing plan. Currently we only see improvement and not much innovation. Innovation often shows up when a camera is officially presented, so let's see what else the K3 can do.
The news lens is no revelation looking at the specs... the good news is that there is more space on the roadmap now for interesting lenses.