----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring)
> Doug Franklin wrote: > >>Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Yep. Gotta get me a 200mm macro. No doubt about it. >> >>I've been looking for an FA* 200/4 Macro for several years. Finding one >>is hard. Coming up with the coin for one is harder, since the few times >>I've seen actual prices it was around US$ 1,400. As much as I'd like to >>have one, I just can't justify that much cash for a lens, since I don't >>get any income from my photography. > > Sigh. I came to the same conclusion about the FA*200/4 macro: Just > can't justify that much money considering how much I'd use it (even if > I could find one). I suppose I might come across an A*200/4 Macro > (which is what Mark Cassino uses) at a more reasonable price, but > they're still pretty rare. > I totally lucked out on my FA200/4 Macro. I got home from GFM a couple of years ago with the idea of aquiring one fairly high on my list of wanted lenses. I think Tom Reeses has one, and spoke very highly of it. Anyway, my local dealer got involved in the search, they got the Regional Pentax rep involved, and eventually they found one in a rep's kit from somewhere in the USA. It was shipped to Canada, where PCI did a refurbish on it and sent it on to my local store for pickup. I think I paid less than Can$1400.00 for it as well. I recall that I had budgeted about double what I ended up paying, and so decided that I could afford an A600/5.6 that came up on eBay shortly thereafter. It was a good year. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
