Well it seems that maybe part of the problem is that people may no
longer be going to their local camera shop and shop online instead. The
prices are better and availability + selection has been better. But
having found those four 16-45DA just sitting on shelves in my local
camera shop makes me speculate that there are many other shops out their
with similar goodies just waiting to be found and purchased. It could
be that Pentax made an initial shipment of these lenses to both shops
like these and to the major internet houses and underestimated the
demand. Of course the internet houses sold their stock real quick,
while all those shops may still have them. Now they cant keep up
production which is mainly being driven by those internet outlets. Of
course this is all speculation on my part, I only have a sample of two
camera shops, but two out of two aint bad.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 18 Aug 2004 at 1:18, P�l Jensen wrote:
I can't spot the mystery. These lenses sell so few (obviously as they only fit a
single camera that haven't sold that much), that no one want to stock many of
them. If the distributor has underestimated the demand (it happes all the time
with cameras as well) they will get short.
It's no mystery all right, here the distributors aren't even aware of all the
lenses that Pentax makes. We still have to order in LTD and the FA200 Macro
doesn't exist, never did.
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
