Resistance is useless, Boris. Give in. Go on, you know you want to... http://www.web-options.com/Leicas.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/679bfb http://www.flickr.com/photos/aperture64/2739236380/ http://photo.net/columns/mjohnston/column38/marshallM4.jpg http://cameraquest.com/LeicaM4G.htm http://uk.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/leica_a_la_carte/configurato r/ http://uk.leica-camera.com/photography/m_system/m8/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Boris Liberman > Sent: 26 November 2008 14:47 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Visited today local Pentax service > > 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. > > -- 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.
