I have been (and still am) shooting with my ist ds for quite a while now. It has been great. In the last year, I've been shooting with an old 50/1.4 that has been a lot of fun and made me really think a lot more about how I shoot. Anyway, long story short, the kids are starting to get older, the little flip type camcorders aren't cutting it any more since they are doing "real" activities and I was starting to notice the level of noise at a 100% crop even in the best of conditions vs all the newest generation cameras (even some ps types). Needless to say, I've got new camera fever (not to mention, I shot a few frames with a friends new Canon EOS something or other today and I was kinda taken aback by the difference in speed and operation vs the ist). This new camera fever came to a screeching halt this morning when I was digging into the k-5 and saw the various limitations in video.

I had in mind a great idea, something my wife would appreciate, a one camera to rule them all type of situation where I could have one to take great quality stills and high quality video. It seems that might just be a pipe dream though. Does anyone out there know if Pentax is working on an upgrade, firmware or otherwise, that is going to allow the k-5 (or a new camera) to shoot video with full, fast AF? I'm thinking about future soccer games, plays, etc. where a fixed focus before each shot just isn't going to cut it. Or, sans going to something like a Sony (egad) nex-5n, is just getting a standalone camcorder and sticking with a standalone still camera be the best bad.