Ed wrote
>There is no MZ-S anywhere in Baltimore - I >called every dealer. I managed to find one in DC on Tuesday, at the >largest Pentax dealer in the DC area. They had "one". None of the >salespeople had ever even heard of it, and they could not find it for >about 5 minutes, because it was still in the back in it's box, as they >had never even opened it to put it on display. Nobody knew anything >about it. I mounted my 77 to it, and two of the salespeople looked at >the lens. One said, "What the heck is that?" They had never heard of >the limited lenses. Pretty weird. I'm now in Oslo. I've seen the MZ-S with battery grip in two different shops. Note that those are the only shops I've visited - there could be more. One of them had all three Limited lenses on display, the FA* 85/1.4, FA* 400/5.6, FA* 24/2, FA 50/2.8 Macro + a considerable number of Pentax consumer zooms. I also noted that the MZ-S at least looks better built than anything else except the F5. The Dynax9 and EOS-1v, which stood on the shelves right beside it looked more plasticky, in spite of being metal, and overall cheaper and less well finished regarding both surface finish and shutline management (that is the lines between body panels, and for the Dynaxx9, the gap between the flash and the body). P�l - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
