With price considered, I wouldn't stockpile 600mm/4 even if I thought there was a small market, if delivery time is 2 weeks like the auction text claims. OTOH, lenses like the SMC 500/4.5 were made to order for maybe a decade after it was officially denounced.
Jostein 2007/8/10, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The US branch of Pentax still considers it a current product. It could > be old stock or the could still be making them. Each distributor is > semi-independent and only supplies it's market with what they think will > sell. > > http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_details/camera_lens--smc_P-FA_600mm_F4.0_ED_%28IF%29/reqID--3068/subsection--Digital_35mm_telephoto > > or tinyurl for the wrapped > > http://tinyurl.com/otswy > > AlunFoto wrote: > > Strange... In the description it says: > > > > "This item is manufactured at the time of order. > > Winning item will be shipped as soon as the lens is manufactured. > > The delivery time is 2 ~ 3 weeks." > > > > Which is more likely; the seller not being entirely truthful, or that > > Pentax still makes this lens to Special Order? It's been gone from the > > catalogues for quite a while, hasn't it? > > > > Jostein > > > > 2007/8/9, syb vis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Browsing Ebay on my search for extremities, I found this thing. > >> > >> http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190137806062&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX_Stores&refitem=280134626351&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget > >> > >> Did anyone of you ever have it mounted on your camera? What kind of > >> images did you produce? > >> > >> Cheers. > >> Syb > >> > >> -- > >> ======================== > >> Syb Vis, The Netherlands. > >> "Since i bought my DSLR, i do no longer buy prints. Instead, i pay for > >> digital frames. Who said it would become cheaper?" > >> > >> ================================= > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > cognoscenti: "Those who know" > > cognesnotty: The stringy material that forms in the nasal passages of "Those > who know." > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
