I am that old fogie, that waited years to find the right pentax body for my extensive pentax manual lenses, from a 15mm k-mount, to a 300mmA*. Why did I wait, and not get a second hand K-5? Versatiliy, and focus peaking, combined with the best video section pentax has come out with. After years of looking through the bright viwfinders of LX's, I did not find the viwfinders on the current digital cameras so compelling,that they could not be sacrificed. I am used to focus peaking from the Beta-Cam, the broadcast standard, pre-digital. Basicaly a very small black and white LCD magnified through an eye piece, with contrast, and focus peaking ajustments to healp with the only option for motion picture cameras, manual -focus. The K-01 while still, a pain to go totally manual with, unlike the cannon.It is at least possible,and at least has a limited but profesional quality video section, wile still taking supurb stills, as the K-5. If it were not for this camera, I may have sold the store and went to cannon,whos users use manual glass from every maker, exept pentax, becouse the lenses go to deep in the body. This is an incentive for pentax, an acidental proprietory lens system, that forced me to stay with a pentax body! Now all that great glass hass been given a new life, and I do not miss the viewfinder, its liberating, to not have to get contacts to shoot. The focusing ring, are not good on the new lenses, an important feature for video, as is an apature ring, so as to always have the same DOF, throughout. Some hollywood DP,s, keep the same apature stop, even when they change lenses. I cant wait for the K-02 with weather sealing, amd a fully manual function. When I bought a card, at Rits camera, I took a look at the 35mm DA lens, and I am sorry, but it feels cheap, and not professional like my 35mm m- F2. It does not even cover the whole area of the 35mm frame, so forget about the advantage of using just the sweet spot in the middle of the lens, like a ff lens does. When you can take a meter reading, then set the apature, and shutter speed to exactly what combo you want- easily, it will be a no brainner for old school, and beginers alike, that are taught, and are used to, the do it all before you take the picture, not after approach. This aproach is still taught in photography class. The rest is nice, and cool, and I see advantages to some of the advances, like floating ASA, but how about the basics.
