Originally posted by clickclick
Looks like I have my marching orders too for a camera with a CCD sensor.

It's worth playing with one. I get a lot of use from my K200D and K10D.
The K20D also had very good colors, and mikesbike is right, the pictures looked sharp with it. I particularly loved the skin tones. But if you do post processing with RAW the sensor dynamic range was too limited.
The following CMOS cameras, which all have Sony sensors, have not rendered colors to my liking, up to the K-3 (which needs a bit of work to get the colors to my taste). From the K-S1 on, it seems the Pentax CMOS treatment has mostly caught up, and the following cameras (K-S2, K-70, KP, K-3 III) have gotten progressively better. But CCD cameras still have some nuances in color transitions and in their capturing of luminance that seem to set it apart, so at the prices they go for these days, why not get one to play with?