Originally posted by mlucas9
Any advice along these lines will be much appreciated.
Are you aware of the crop factor? Your beloved, versatile 50mm will have a much narrower field of view on a crop-dslr (all models except the K-1), comparable to a 75mm lens on your film cameras. That put me off, as I mostly prefer normal to wide lenses.
I started with film, too, and was thrilled by Pentax's backward compatibility. Got a K-5 back then. A very good camera, still, but getting a little old. No focus peaking, for example. Not that I would have liked to use the backscreen to focus, anyway.
I got the magnifier eye cup, which I can really recommend and I hacked me a split focus screen from an old scrap film body. All fun, but in the end I love film and using the classic film bodies much much more. I barely take out the dslr anymore.