Pros: Full featured DSLR with excellent low light shots, super fast 4.7 continuous shooting, and 720p video. This is an excellent DSLR and beats Canon and Nikon in its price range.

Camera is very solid in your hand. Definitely designed for right handers but all controls are ergonomic and are mostly reachable without adjusting your grip.

Tons of shooting modes and an incredible amount professional settings that I'm just touching on still.

Cons: Heavy and large considering some of the micro 4/3rds coming out. Still smaller and lighter than Nikon and Canon models.

Also, in order to use full set of features (like continuous shooting) you need a high end SD card. Don't skimp on this! Stick with a name brand and high speed card.

Other Thoughts: I have to mention this, there is a very satisfying click every time you take a picture. It's something that sounds very professional and solid.

Can't recommend this high enough. If you can get over fanboy brand recommendations, this will get you more camera for your money than Nikon or Canon in this cameras price range. At least until they release new cameras...

Pros: Small, great AWB, beautiful colours out of the camers

Cons: Blurry pictures, mirror shake issue producing double image.

Other Thoughts: I am having mirror shake image issues with this camera - this would produce blurred images. I am outside of return window and Pentax would not acknowledge the problem insisting it is user error. SO I am stuck with camera that is unusable in exposure range 1/60-1/200 sec and produces soft images in other ranges. Very disappointed, can not do anything about it, failed complaint with BBB.

Pros: great in low light
accurate 11 point auto focus
shoots video in 720p
excellent photo quality
easy to use

Cons: have not been able to get the advertised 4 frames per second when shooting action shots. eats batteries

Other Thoughts: after the firmware update from pentax the battery issue is better but if your going to taking a lot of photos i recommend keeping a set of freshly charged batteries on hand. overall i couldn't be happier with this camera

Pros: - Solid body
- Good feel
- Amazing features
- Thorough users manual
- Great ISO performance

Cons: One main issue is battery meter performance, see notes below. Haven't owned / used the camera enough to know of any real cons, may update later.

Even with the battery issue this should not deter would be owners. It is a great camera and at this price point beats out the competition that is easily 200 to 300 more expensive. I don't regret buying the camera at all and even if it is heavier than a point and shoot, the fact that it can use interchangeable lenses and legacy lenses gives this camera unsurpassed flexibility and versatility.

Other Thoughts: The biggest con I found with this camera so far is a known issue with the battery meter when using NiMH batteries. A K-x with firmware 1.0 does not properly register the battery level of NiMH and therefore may show "Battery Depleted" and shut off pre-maturely. To fix this the latest firmware (1.1) must be downloaded from Pentax and applied. Then the level meter must be placed on NiMH (see manual) and then the camera will properly indicate battery level. I've done this and my 4 year old 2600 maH NiMH batteries which before the firmware upgrade could not even power up the camera have now successfully taken over 100 shots without any battery conditioning. Once I put the batteries through several charge/discharge cycles I expect performance to improve. Please see my website for further details
http://www.slandi.net

This battery issue should not deter would be buyers. At this price, the K-x is an awesome camera. It is a little heavier than would be a point & shoot, but you get the vers

Pros: -Solid build
-Good kit lens
-Impressive high ISO
-Can use any K mount lens
-Very good image quality
-Fast
-AA batteries

Cons: -No focus points in viewfinder
-Live view is slow (true for most DSLRs)
-No dedicated focus assist lamp (just strobes flash)
-HD video is not great
-No battery grip option

Other Thoughts: This is my first foray into the world of DSLRs. Before this I had only used film SLR cameras and that was quite a few years ago. This camera has met most of my expectation and exceeded quite a few. Pentax has a wide range of legacy lenses that you can find on the used market relatively cheap. This is a great camera for someone wanting to step up from a point and shoot digital for not a lot more money. If you want to take pictures in cold weather, AA lithium batteries will certainly outperform any rechargeable lithium ion for shooting times in cold environments, which isn't something I thought about when buying this camera. (nice little bonus)

Pros: Beautiful image quality right out of the box
Excellent High ISO capability
Can shoot jpeg or raw or both at once
Auto white-balance that actually works!
Auto-focus is fast and accurate, even in low light
Sharp kit lens
Solidly built and compact
A lot of features and capabilities

Cons: Lack of focus point in viewfinder (you have to look at the back screen)

Other Thoughts: This is much more than what I would consider an "entry level" camera since it has so many great features and capabilities. Everything I could ever want or use in a camera.