On 25 Mar 2004 at 17:37, David Nelson wrote: > I was wondering whether any of the Aus > PDMLers can recommend a way to see some pentax gear. I think Melbourne > CRK is the base - do they have a range of pentax gear? Any shops around > that stock some? Is the world's driest inhabited continent totally > pentax-equipment free?
About the only way is to order a set of brochures from CRK Melbourne, the Sydney office probably won't have stock. On a similarly frustrating note I have to decide when to relinquish my *ist D for repair, I'm not at all pleased with the prospect of being without it for weeks, days is bad enough for something that was a problem out of the box. Another interesting story I was relayed today was that a friend of mine sent his otherwise pristine SuperProgram to the Sydney CRK office via a south coast camera shop and had it promptly returned as a no fix due to unavailability of parts at a cost of AU$50. The simple fact is that it has a dodgy ratchet on the film counter, it works some times but when it doesn't catch the shutter will only function at 1/1000. There was no offer of a work around or any other options it was just returned and charged. Looks like I have to pull apart a SuperProgram this weekend (I'm 150% sure that I can fix it) :-( Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
