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Pentax K-5 II Body Only for $769 Including Delivery (Today Only) at Kogan Australia

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Pentax K-5 II Body Only for $769 Including Delivery (Today Only) at Kogan Australia
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Foma2 on 23/10/2013 - 11:59 kogan.com (227 clicks)
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Kogan Australia has free delivery today (today only) which effectively drops price of Pentax K-5 II body only to $769 including delivery (today only).
It has 12 months Kogan warranty.
I reckon it is the lowest price ever with Australian warranty.

CR Kennedy Australia has Pentax K-5 II body only for $1095 now + ~$10 delivery.

The K-5 II Digital SLR Camera from Pentax is a top-of-the-line APS-C DSLR camera. It offers a 16.3MP CMOS sensor with integrated Analog/Digital conversion circuitry for high resolution photos and video. And the K-5 II brings with it a new, highly advanced and extremely accurate 11 point SAFOX X autofocus system. This new autofocus system offers a wide EV focus range which means faster autofocus with less hunting in low-light situations and improved AF accuracy when using fast, wide-aperture lenses. The AF sensor also includes the Select-Area Expansion feature which automatically tracks moving subjects as they proceed across the frame.

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    • BuyoTheCat on 23/10/2013 - 12:26
      +3

      You can get a full frame camera for under $1000?

    • cpho on 23/10/2013 - 12:41
      +4

      You can get a camera that can autofocus in -3EV under $2000?
      Also, please explain the benefit of having full frame besides more pixels. And actually, if youre any good at shooting, you'll find pentax has a bunch of legacy lenses which are equally good as AF lenses if you use the Catch in Focus function as well as using the hyperfocal length.

      Pentax is on par if not better than Canikon.

      Tl;dr - Research before you troll

    • jfkingdom1 on 23/10/2013 - 14:04
      +1

      Pentax is equally as good if not better then Canon/Nikon in terms of image quality, features and value for money. Don't be sucked into just buying Canon or Nikon - there are other gems out there to be had.

    • cpho on 23/10/2013 - 12:48

      Not many actually. Pentax is very under marketed so many people dont even know that Pentax makes systems anymore. There's more overseas but very few in Aus because of a lack of sellers. For example, I was looking for a lens, but no retailers stocked it. I ended up having to order it from B&H which is kind of annoying, and has no warranty

    • voter1 on 23/10/2013 - 13:12

      Im glad there are people like you (sheep) keeps us wolves fed :)

  • lambsoda on 23/10/2013 - 12:57
    +3

    I love my Pentax, lenses are cheap due to in body image stabilisation, the dynamic range destroys the competition, this is a fantastic camera for the price. No other brand can match its features for the same price.

    Ignore the sheep that take advice from Harvey Norman on cameras.

    http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon-EOS-650D-vs-Pentax-K-5-II
    http://snapsort.com/compare/Nikon_D7000-vs-Pentax-K-5-II
    http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon_EOS_7D-vs-Pentax-K-5-II

    • LaTerrible on 23/10/2013 - 14:18

      Agreed. I bought a K-30 this year, fantastic camera. Just recently grabbed a ~30 year old manual nifty fifty to go with it (one of the Super-Tak's).

      Wonderful lens, terrific camera. This is a ripper deal for those not needing 35mm bodies.

    • someeric on 23/10/2013 - 21:43

      I am a K-5 user and cannot be happier about it.

  • rohanp16 on 23/10/2013 - 13:00

    I don't have a DSLR but Pentax is great to get away from the Canikon duopoly. They make cameras with really good specs, and the build quality is outstanding along with being truly weather resistant (much better than Nikon ones). The Pentax K-3 is brilliant on paper.

    However, I think the D7000 might be a better buy over the K5 II. It's almost 100 bucks cheaper, the specs are quite similar. The D7000 has extra storage slot and would obviously offer a wider range of lenses.

    • BuyoTheCat on 23/10/2013 - 13:07

      the K-5II should be compared directly to a Nikon D7100 rather than the D7000

      • rohanp16 on 23/10/2013 - 13:14

        I made the comparison because of the price. The D7100 gets rather expensive. If someone is deciding between the D7100 and K5 II, I'd recommend the K5 II, spend the extra 400 bucks or so on a good piece of glass (low aperture and/or prime lens depending on the type of photography).

      • lambsoda on 23/10/2013 - 13:15

        I think the K-3 should be compared to the D7100, K-5 IIs possibly could too (no AA filter).

        Not the standard K-5II.

        • cpho on 23/10/2013 - 13:24

          Really? I'd compare k-5ii with the d7100 and the k-3 with the d300s

        • lambsoda on 23/10/2013 - 13:27

          Well all the hardware is the same as the K-5 except for the LCD screen and Autofocus system, and the K-5 is comparable to the D7000.

        • CyberMurning on 23/10/2013 - 13:34

          hard to compare p with c and n, because pentax doesnt release new model as often as others.

        • BuyoTheCat on 23/10/2013 - 15:00

          Its hard to compare them directly. Pentax models usually overlaps features with other manufacture's models. There was a youtube video comparing Nikon D7100 and K-5 IIs

          http://www.digitalrev.com/article/nikon-d7100-vs-pentax-k/MT…

          it was quite funny.

          The difference between the k-5 II and IIs is the lack of anti aliasing filter on the IIs.
          If you are not sure what difference the anti aliasing filter makes, you should just get the K-5 II

  • CyberMurning on 23/10/2013 - 13:15

    where is the k-5 ii s

    i might get this 2nd hand, when k-3 start selling hopefully this will get cheaper again due people upgrade

    • Foma2 on 23/10/2013 - 14:53

      You hardly can get a 2nd hand K-5ii in a good condition cheaper than $600 at least for a year or two.
      No warranty and high shutter count.
      Currently 2nd hand K-5 is still sold at $550 mark.

  • apu on 23/10/2013 - 14:12

    Do you reckon this will drop below $700 after the K-3 becomes widely available? Historically, what's been the lowest price drop of the outgoing flagship Pentax model?

  • Foma2 on 23/10/2013 - 14:29

    I reckon k-5 never got cheaper than $670.
    k-5ii may get that low in a year or so.

  • Foma2 on 23/10/2013 - 14:48

    The only area where Pentax do not shine is video.
    Most DSLRs do not do video too well anyway.
    For video you probably gonna be better off with Sony RX100.

    • BuyoTheCat on 23/10/2013 - 14:54
      +1

      except for the K-3. It finally does video like the other manufacturer.

      Not that I know what good video and bad video is. I cant take video for nuts and do not know how to cut and edit it if my life depended on it.

  • Foma2 on 10/11/2013 - 12:51

    I got my camera a few days ago.
    I am really happy with it.
    Well done Kogan.

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