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
