Then the Pentax K100D showed up, it has according to that camera body data thingy at the Pentax forum, 2860 shutter actuations, and was produced 12th of September in 2006. The camera came with a Lowepro Topload Zoom 2, which will fit the G9/PL50-200 right fine and dandy and with room to spare. Unfortunately the bag came without the "Hammock" that would make room for something in the bottom of the bag, whilst the camera and lens would be cradled in the hammock.
First shot while fiddling with it, there are much noise but also something in the greens that seems to be holding a promise of nice things somewhere down the line.
The camera came with a surprise lens, I just saw it with a lens on and thought it to be just another 18-55 kit, but it turned out to be a F 35-80mm F4-5.6, giving it a somewhat useful 50-120mm in APSC currency and a rather nice "otherness" rather than just another plain, old 18-55. Mounted on the lens was a hefty B&W ES 010 1xMC (UV Haze) filter, but no lens cap. The spare 49mm that I found tucked away in the bag that came along with the K10D will be put to good use on an old 18-55, as the Pentax branded one on that, will go onto the 35-80.
There was a very minor leak in one of the batteries, with a very tiny amount of electrolyte pollution on one of the brass contacts. It cleaned right up, with no visible surface damage so swapped them out with Ikealoops and the camera fired right up. Going through the mountain of old SD cards, I thought a 8GB would be right fine and dandy but that was a no go, so popping in an even older 1GB did the trick. i will look a bit further into that*.
Other than that, I think it is right fine and dandy, but rather dated which is slightly confusing with no live view (I think), a screen that seemingly live it own life as to when and how it turns itself on and off. A somewhat strange ratio, which I dont seem to be able to get rid of and whopping +/- 2 stops of exposure compensation but not with todays intuitive scale, just a number in the top display, with a tiny plus or minus sign in front. Other oddities worth mentioning is that I don't seem to be able to access both speed and aperture in manual.
All in all, I think it was €35 well spent.
*I did, the camera needed a firmware upgrade to handle the immensely large SDHC Cards, it now runs right fine and dandy up to 32GBs, but the picture counter on the camera is just triple digits, so it shows "999" if any larger card than 8GBs are used. The body had FW 1.00 upon arrival and now runs FW 1.02