on 2/12/03 8:23 PM, Mark Roberts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Paul Franklin Stregevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Personally, I've been sitting out this discussion because I have no right to >> tell Pentax what to make. I've bought exactly one item brand-new that bore >> the Pentax name: a lens-cleaning cloth. > > Whew, ain't that the truth! I'll bet a great many of us hardly ever buy > *new* Pentax products. At least, all we ever seem to read about is the > old stuff. As for me, the Pentax equipment I've purchased new is: > > K1000 (many, many years ago - my first SLR) > PZ-1p > MZ-S plus BG-10 > FA50/1.4 > FA28/2.8AL
Lets see, Pentax gear bought new (in rough chronological order): 2 @ ME-Super 1 @ M-50/1.7 1 @ M-50/1.4 1 @ M-100/2.8 2 @ PZ-1p 1 @ FA28-105 (version 1) 1 @ FA80-320 1 @ F1.7 Adapter 1 @ MZ-S 1 @ FA20-35 In the era's during which the A and then the F lenses were being sold new, I wasn't in the market. Stan
