Originally posted by jedie One question: Does anybody compare the K-30 with K-50 (and/or K-500)... Are the hardware 100% the same?!?
I believe the K-50 was listed as having a larger max ISO but unsure if that is just a software 'upgrade' or not.
When I owned a K-30, I discovered one could theoretically patch it with the firmware for the K-50 by simply renaming the K-50 firmware to one of the K-30's. However, I was not brave enough to let it proceed. The K-30 was seeing the firmware file on the SD card though (asked me if I wanted to flash with that firmware) and didn't just ignore it like it would have otherwise.
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suspect it is the same camera hardware with a firmware change... if you are willing to potentially brick your K-30 you could give it a go.. but then again you could potentially brick your K-30!
Would be neat though if confirmed.. could mean whatever work done for the K-30 would be directly available to the K-50!