Originally posted by banana99 Is my first camera, so i'm not really sure what my style is
let's say i choose the k10d in favor of k5. What i'm losing in specs wise?
The biggest specs in my opinion are high ISO performance, better rear screen and live view. Also autofocus performance*, frames per second and metering. You can work around that stuff most of the time. If you get caught up in specs too long, the K10D looks like it can barely do anything. A lot has happened in ten years. But anyone who had one when it was new probably has 20 to 50,000 pictures from it. Some good ones if they have any talent.
*No one is ever happy with autofocus performance of any brand. Each camera on launch day has the best AF ever for that brand, which in reality is slightly better than the last model. Once that camera is a couple of years old, general consensus is that camera's AF is at best terrible.
Maybe a K-7 is a good compromise because they should be cheap. The K-7 has the first decent rear screen and live view. I use magnified live view for manual focus on a tripod, and really miss it if I don't have it. It also introduced the improved 77 segment metering and bumped up the frames per second to 5 I think. The high ISO performance is the only bad spec. You can turn it up to 6400 but the image will look like a bad impressionist painting. Stick to 1600 or less and it's good. The camera is very durable. These days I use mine for riskier shots. It's perfectly fine strapped to a car bumper, left out in the rain for lightning shots, or using a snowbank for a tripod. I don't know what cheap is today in Europe but I'd want to pay 100-120 Euros and get an 18-55 WR lens with it. If that's possible, you can spend a lot on other lenses. Most of why I can still use the K-7 is because I have all the infrastructure.
I'd keep looking for a K-5 because all of the great parts of the K-7 are included, but it has much better high ISO performance. That often allows me to use cheaper lenses and still get decent image brightness. The K-5 goes up to ISO 51200 which is still one of those optimistic specs, but I'm impressed how often 6400 works. The only problem is stretching the budget so far, you can't get anything else.
The K-30 and K-50 should be the obvious choice because they have the great sensor, everything else is capable and the price should allow you to get other stuff. I don't know how you minimize risk of aperture block failure. Maybe an already repaired one?