I won't buy a K10D until they get rid of the VPN Jack just showed us.
Producing results like that is akin to reaching into a box of 3-year old
expired film that's been sitting out in the sun, blindfolded, loading it in
your camera and expecting something decent.
Tom C.
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Subject: Re: Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:42:17 -0400
It could be worse, the last full service shop, within reasonable driving
distance, carries Pentax. There's one salesman in particular who while
perfictly willing to show you a K10d K100d etc., makes a point that he's
sold x number of them but, y number were returned by unhappy customers,
(never mentions exactly why they were unhappy though). Last time I was
there I got to handle a K10D. I was impressed. I got to compare it too a
both Nikon D200 a D80 and a Canon Rebal XTI, (They were out of the
posher Canons at the time). I was still impressed especially for the
price. However while he didn't try to push the other brands as he knows
I have a raft of Pentax Glass, he still had to make a point of those
unhappy customers. I've decided to buy the K10D from B&H...
Brendan MacRae wrote:
> 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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