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Pentax K-5 IIs

DSLR · Pentax K · released 2012-09-10
Lowest now
$330
Steep discount -75% vs MSRP
See prices at 1 source (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$1,299
Sep 2012
Inventory
2
across 1 source

Near the 90-day low

How we compute this

Close to the 90-day low. Within $1 of the 90-day low of $329. 25% of the $1,299 MSRP. Prices are down 68.6% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$330
MSRP
$1,299
vs MSRP
-75%
90-day low
$329
All-time low
$329 (Sep 4, 2026)
30-day trend
-68.6%
Observed across 1 source · 38 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Cite Should You Buy This Camera, "Pentax K-5 IIs used price", observed 2026-10-28, https://shouldyoubuythiscamera.com/cameras/pentax/k5-iis

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
ebay
used
→ good
$330
ships free
2 Observed 16h ago view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Pentax
Family
Pentax K-5
Category
body
Body type
DSLR
Mount
Pentax K
Sensor
APS-C
Megapixels
16.3 MP
Lens type
—
IBIS
Sensor-shift
Weather sealed
Yes
Max video
—
Max native ISO
—
Weight
—
Dimensions
—
Body material
—
Released
2012-09-10
Status
discontinued

Notes

K-5 II with the anti-aliasing filter removed — sharper at the cost of moire risk on fabric and architecture. Worth the premium for landscape, not for events. NOTE for searching: the 'IIs' suffix is not a Roman numeral, so plain K-5 II listings will contaminate a naive search. Guarded in watchlist.py.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.