Is there life after aperture block failure?

peterpainter wrote:

Massao wrote:

peterpainter wrote:

I guess, tbh, I was more curious about who had had bought what camera as a follow-up.

My plan is to get a K-70 Prime reason is that ergonomically it is more similar to K-30 than any other Pentax camera Plus it has some features that I dearly want: articulating screen and support for UHS-I card. I recently changed my Sandisk 95mb/s card to Lexar 1000x 150mb/s card on my NX500 and man, the difference was night and day--unfortunately K-30 doesn't support these newer "V60" cards.

Thank-you. That's interesting. I like the idea of the flip-out screen etc. - just a bit wary of reliability, but I can see the attraction.

That I'm too :-); here are few arguments that may help in your decision:

1) Your K-30 dying after just 4,000 exposures is probably attributed to a very bad luck (in addition to Pentax's in-house mess :-).

2) For the price of K-70, you can probably buy 2.5 KP's. That seems a lot of difference given they probably have same sensor ;-).

3) If you are worried about K-70's ABF than a used K-5II/k-5IIs is a very good option. I wouldnt be so worried about buying used gear, but I would not buy from some random store on Ebay. Try to find it in local private market. Used equipment from ONE user is likely to be in much better condition then used stuff sold on Ebay by stores.

3) Whatever you buy will be (almost) worthless in four years anyway