Hi All Pentaxian,

I have a set of K5 + many lens and accessories for sell, refer the link below:

WTS K5 full set

This is my set, carefully used and taken care of, you can come to my place to view it

Cheers!

check HERE for second hand K5 price :-)

I have use canon camera for few years (that time was 350D with EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 USM lens), now using pentax K5 for past 2 years with all the lens as in the link above. My thought on camera body: K5 is much more solid build than canon and nikon, and have smaller size yet it is not compromise on the handling, and it is weather proof. To take a beautiful picture, i think the camera body does not matter much, important is you have a very good quality lens.

I choose pentax K5 because i need to advance my skill, that time canon 60D is not a match compare K5 (in term of build and picture quality), thus i choose K5 and bought a tamron f2.8 zoom lens (as i already used to constant aperture zoom lens). Then i added a old manual 50mm lens. Both lens serve me well and i have no regret choosing K5, and i love the ISO80, picture taken with ISO80 is so beutiful!

Like other as mention, you will have difficulty buying used lens in malaysia, and also not many ppl using pentax and you can't "borrow" or test lens before you invest. But that is why you join pentax group and the outing, so that you can have a group of ppl sharing the same gear and you can test use it on the spot :-) But if you like manual focus and shoot portrait , you can easily bought a m42 screw mount lens with cheap price and have a very good quality picture.

here are some photo taken with the camera and lens

Haha, more than RM3K two year back. But that time I am working in singapore thus bought the set in Singapore (kit set with 18-135mm) later sold the kit lens and bought tamron.

That time only have 1 child so easy to carry around the camera while outing, furthermore still working in Singapore so quite safe. Now working in Malaysia and have two children makes me tired when carry the camera during outing coz need to take care of my children and my camera as well (u know Malaysia now, kidnapping cases increase and thief everywhere). So thinking of changing to smaller camera and later when my kid grown up then come back to dslr again, when that time come back then it willb full frame

This post has been edited by cbchoy12: Aug 5 2013, 05:13 PM

yaya, i miss the panel display as well. I still have the 350D but i pass to my brother to use it. Solid camera and still working well until now :-)

Actually Third party lens do care for pentax, only that it will come later comapre to Canon/Nikon and sony mount ( I think it is a good thing since new lens might have performance/production issue, so canon/nikon/sony users all become white rat to test it before it gets really mature, then pentax user will have less problem version,haha). Also and not much shop in Malaysia selling it. But you can easily find it in Singapore. That is why if you are in singapore you will not headache going for Pentax.