> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/06/06 Wed PM 02:06:29 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: My GFM wrap-up (pretty long, probably boring) > > > ----- 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.
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