Hi! Actually I am somewhat saddened. Here is a bit of a rant.
After 1.5 or so years without sensor cleaning I finally made my way to the largest and most official (actually the only truly official) Pentax service in Ramat Gan (a city bordering Tel Aviv). The good news is that they did very good job and that even after warranty of my K10D expires, they will clean the sensor free of charge. The bad news. This very company is also an official dealer and importer of many other brands including Canon. So I walk into the store in hope to buy DA 16-45/4 locally with decent warranty attached to it. And so I ask the clerk. Quoth she - we don't sell Pentax lenses, period. I saw two FA 28-80/3.5-5.6 and a two digit number of all kinds of lenses for Canon. Including, ironically, Tokina 10-17, 50-135/2.8, 35/2.8 macro, and 11-16/2.8 (which is not labeled Pentax, hopefully, yet). So I could "almost" buy it. Although as is, it is predictable and so on, but still, I am pretty frustrated by the fact that they probably couldn't find a business sense to offer some Pentax gear. What they did offer was a number of various models of Pentax digital compacts. I am no expert in these, so I couldn't tell how up to date the models were. Ultimately, I gave them my phone number and asked them to call me if they would have either DA 16-45 or FA 24-90 for sale. Well, now I am a bit vented ;-). -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
