Originally posted by madbrain I'm having a hard time finding a logical upgrade path for this camera in the current Pentax line up.
When is Pentax going to release a camera that is in every way an upgrade from the K200D ?
I am in the same position with you and I've made my mind, I'll go for K20D, because it's half of cheap K7 and more than that, K7 has a lot of issues.
Along with not completely solved problems the most important issue of K7 is very strong AA filter that makes images soft and also K7 colors washed out, comparing to K20D.
With 5.5 million sale success of K10D reason is (in my very subjective guess) weak AA filter, thats why K10D's pictures were tack sharp, Moire effect, yeah that's an issue too but I can live with that, but I can't with soft pictures.
Not to mention other K7 issues such as green line, dark area banding, higher dark side noise etc etc, new firmwares are coming almost every other week for K7.
So I will upgrade to K20D and will wait for the FF or at least better APS camera with solved issues of K7. As a strict 100 ISO guy, the only advantage of K7 is truer colors of K7, I mean lot better white balance, but with twice price, only that wouldn't worth it.
Also K200D has CCD sensor, you might miss those colors taken with good light situations with a CMOS camera.
About K-x, the pictures I've seen here and there is a disaster, softness everywhere, my guess is this is a sensor swindle from Sony to Pentax, my recommendation is it's a no-no camera regarding the IQ.
Now I am giving my K200D to my wife, I will use K20D for 1, mostly 1.5 years, if Pentax doesn't come up with a decent camera with better sharpness forcing mostly in 2 years I will abandon Pentax and will switch to Canon. But I strongly doubt it I am gonna do that because I think Pentax will see K7 doomed coupla months after christmas, and will try to come up with better camera harder and sooner.
C'mon Pentax you can do better than K7, I have the faith in you.
Forewarning: I am sick and tired of irrational, emotional, camera fanaticism here especially for K7, If I get a uncivilized response instead of a nice answer explaining why I am wrong or right, I will response to that as it deserves.