You are right Cotty, if I must have one within 3-4 days, I could probably get one. I have bought from Sweden (thanks Lasse), England (thanks Peter), Japan, Hong Kong, from KEH and B&H and Adorama, from Oregon and Arizona...
The problem is that I asked my local dealer to order one for me, I bugged him to bug the distributor/rep to accept the order almost even before there was an Order Number in the system. He is a good guy, he is trying to help, and I feel comitted to buying the camera from him. As I did with my MZ-S. So my request for information was partly out of frustration, but also to try and ascertain the real state of affairs with respect to the Pentax distribution "system." If I hear that Chicago and St. Louis and Denver and OK City and Omaha and Wichita are all getting ist-D's and KC is not, then I immediately trundel off to the dealer to tell him that he is not getting proper respect. As it is, it does seem that onesies and twosies are being scattered around, mostly to larger dealers (and photo mag editors?). So I will sit and grumble and wait somewhat impatiently but resignedly. I would still be surprised if more than a few hundred of Version 1 were produced. Problems noted, version 2 in production (he says optimistically...) Stan on 10/05/03 5:51 AM, Cotty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > > I think if you are prepared to spend an hour phone-bashing, you can get > what you want. This assumes you don't want to actually touch the goods > before-hand, of course..... > > > > > Cheers, > Cotty > >
