Dave Deacon

Opinion: Basically it is the Pentax K20D in other clothes. I like the look of these clothes :). The camera is fast to operate and focus (SDM lenses improve focus speed even further). It offers excellent functions [water resistant (shoot in the rain), pixel remap, lens adjust, ISO exposure modes, Image Stabiliser (OIS), Sensor Clean etc] all of which are genuinely useful. Menus are intuitively easy to use.

Image Quality is excellent through the ISO range: detail is superb as is colour and noise is very well controlled. They've done a great job squeezing 15MP onto an APSC sensor giving 14.6MP good quality pixels.

It takes all Pentax, Samsung lenses and many third party makes (Sigma, Tamron and Tokina) offer lots of lenses in the Pentax mount. You also have access to all those old but good Pentax lenses. So, no shortage of glass.

Flashguns and other add-ons are available. Those for Pentax work too.

Samsung says it is in the DSLR business for the long haul wanting to offer top pro DSLRs. They have shown that commitment by producing this excellent CMOS sensor. But even if they stopped, the lens investment in Pentax would be safe via Pentax bodies. Really, you've got more chance of innovation and durability with two companies than with one...