So, after my fruitless search for the 16-50mm f2.8
over the last coupe of days (except for the 5
available from the guy in Tokyo on eBay, for
$1,185.00US), I decided to take a deep breath and not
worry about it for now.
I took a drive down to a "local" camera shop in
Sacramento to pick up a couple white background rolls
and listen to the radio on the way.
At some point I was reminded about this months' issue
of Outdoor Photographer. In it, they reviewed the K10D
touting its "unique" Foveon X3 chip (see inset, pg.
92). Suddenly, those old feelings of being abused
crept back into my head drowning out Boston's "More
than a feeling."
I got to the shop and found my rolls of Arctic White
53" x 36' I was needing. I took a look around and
wasn't suprised to see everything but Pentax on the
shelves. So, I asked one of the salesmen, "Do you guys
carry any new Pentax stuff?"
"No, sorry. You must be one of the last people to
still shoot Pentax."
"Hum, that's a damn shame," I said, "if you did I buy
one of their new lenses from you." I thought my point
was obvious.
"Well, only about 1 in a 1000 people ever ask about
Pentax anymore," he said as if his math were valid.
"That may be, but some of their new gear is quite
good, ya know," I said not knowing that he really
didn't know and was even less interested in what I was
about to say. "The K10D has been making some waves and
they have some great new lenses coming out for it."
"Well, I don't know anthing about it, I haven't read
any of the reviews on it, and I don't make those
decisions anyway the owner does. There's a lot of
great gear out there that we don't carry." At that
point he handed me the charge slip to sign and I took
my yellow copy and left.
It's a sad thing though. I really used to get such a
kick out of going to camera stores. Not so much
anymore.
-Brendan
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