Pentaxians - sell me on the K-30

Thanks for the pointer to Hugin, I'll check that out.  I was aware of a couple of other photo-stitchers but none of them were free.  But overall, whether it be free or just cheap (one of them was like $20 or something) it does pretty much erase that advantage and doing it in-computer will allow higher resolution panoramas anyway as you said.

Tonight I'm heading to a local Wolf Camera to try out the Pentax, very excited about it.  It's all down to Pentax K-30 vs. Sony A57 now, the T4i didn't really do so well in the hand and menu feel for me.  I've got somewhat small to medium sized hands, so I expect the compactness of the Pentax will be a good fit for me - we'll see...

I saw B&H has a special on the K-30 w/ 18-55mm for $619, I wonder if they'd be willing to cut some sort of deal for the 18-135mm kit instead?