Dear All, I was born in Hong Kong and live my life here. It is correct that we see more and more Pentax here in recent 2 to 3 years. It was after the new range of DSLR.
3 or 4 years ago, you can hardly find any Pentax camera or lens in most of the local photo shops. I use both Pentax and Nikon and bought most of my gears from Kowloon Photo Services but they had problem getting Pentax gears from local distributor, they simply were not in the mood of doing business. The only place that one can get the less common things is a small shop in Hung Hom, you can find the complete series of Ltd lenses even in black color there. Nowadays, they are more common and supply is not interrupted. I think locally Pentax DSLR is getting about 5-10% of the market, not bad for a late start. BTW, I will be very cautious when shopping gears in MongKok, make sure you know what you want and check everything carefully. Best regards, CC Yau Hong Kong On 17 Jun 2007, at 11:54 AM, Digital Image Studio wrote: > On 17/06/07, Leon Altoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> This is a good sign. When I was in Hong Kong in 1999 it was hard to >> find much Pentax gear anywhere. In 2005 it was a lot better, but it >> sounds like it has improved more. I'll hopefully be back again next >> year, and would hate to have no Pentax to look at. > > It wasn't bad in 2001 when I was there, it depends on where you go of > course, Mong Kok seems to be the best for most camera gear. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Kok > > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/mz-s.jpg > > -- > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
