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Hi ian, I'm sure you're aware by now that all the items in your wishlist above are in the new Leica M (Type 240). 1. Same body and ergonomics. 2. LED projected lines, appears only one focal length at a time, no frame selector switch anymore. 3. Custom-made CMOS sensor with possibly high ISO...

A recent travel pix I took with the K5. This is more or less typical of the kind of thing I shoot for this particular client: Pasar Siti Khadijah, Kota Bharu by Ramayana X., on Flickr As I said, it's really not high end stuff. :P 50mm/2.0 Leica Summicron on Pentax K5.

Yep, that's what I intend to find out in the coming weeks. Also, most of my clients are not present when I do my photography, so that could help. That's good to know. I did have the GF1, with the 20mm(40mm) pancake. The AF on that was rather slow, but for static scenes it was doable. The K5 is...

Hi John, I've seen some of your riding pics before. Superb! I tend to travel quite a lot for work, too, mainly backpacking to blog on food and travel for a client, and used to lug the K5 around. The picture qualities are awesome, and the K5 construction inspires confidence. Two main things...

Exactly. That would be one parameter, for personal satisfaction. If it were just for personal shooting, the choice for me is already clear: it's the GXR. When I use it with manual lenses, I find that I don't miss the K5. However, my digital camera also has to do double duty for work stuff, so...

2. Image quality I don't use my own camera for poster or billboard sizes - I hire real professionals for those jobs. As I said, I use a digital camera only for small, low budget, small projects. These are the typical applications: Food and product photography So far, it looks like the GXR is...

Client impression The K5 looks like a proper DSLR so with some clients - especially new ones - it is handy to contribute an air of professionalism to what I do. On the other hand, the majority of my clients are returning clients, and most of my clients don't really bother what camera I use since...

Pentax K5 with 1.25x magnifier, and LCD loupe: Actually marketed for video DSLRs. Makes the K5 bulky but is very useful if you (a) use LiveView to focus, (b) is shortsighted like me, and (c) put the camera on a tripod. Excellent aid particularly for landscapes and macro, I find. Works rather...

Pentax K5 with original Pentax 1.25x magnifier attached: Enlarges images so it's easier to focus, but you lose 100% frame coverage. So using it really depends on (a) what is more important to you, and (b) what you are shooting. For manual lenses, I found it a worthwhile purchase.

1. Manual Focus Lenses To me, the GXR has the clear advantage here. Pros and cons of the K5 I have kitted out the K5 with manual focusing aids, namely the Pentax original 1.25x viewfinder magnifier, and a generic LCD viewing loupe (actually being marketed for video). The neat thing about the...

In my case, the decision to "jump ship" from one Pentax model to another is made easier by the fact that I only own 2 lenses for the K5: the kit zoom lens (covering events), and the FA 50mm f1.4 (covering food and product). So along the way I will need to acquire the new GXR A16 zoom and the A12...

Is it wise? It's a question that has been asked, but not really resolved to my satisfaction. This is what I intend to find out in the coming weeks. What I use a digital camera for I use the digital SLR mainly to complement my graphic design, mainly making food and product shots for low...

This is good news if... ...it means Pentax will kill off the K-01 line and repackage it into a KAF module for the GXR. The K-01, which is about as big as the K-r yet has no VF, makes as much sense to me as a CSC system as the laughable Nikon J series. I think Pentax Q - Kx - GXR - K30 - K5 -...

This is again from the Nokton 35mm f1.2, deliberately shot at f1.2 without an ND filter. I really like the GXR colours!

Here's one of the first ones I made after receiving the camera. A simple test shot, with the Cosina Nokton 35mm f1.2, shot at f1.2. I love the tone, colours and overall image quality from the GXR... quite similar in character to my K5, but a little bit sharper and more "real". What I recently...

So do I! Glad to find that Ricoh is still making the photographer's camera, after all these years.

...an A12 35mm/2.0 camera unit, please. Better yet, if you're still working on a K-02 camera, please scrap that project. Just take the insides and put it in an A16 KAF module for the GXR instead. I think a KAF module for the GXR based on the K-01 makes more sense than continuing the K-0x...

And very happy with it. I sold off a Leica X1 after 2 weeks because I simply didn't like it, compared to my Leica M7. But I think the GXR + A12 mount will be with me for a long while. It brings back fond memories of my Ricoh GRD, which I loved shooting with until it died. :smile: Will be...