I would assume that they'd all come with that warranty, and my understanding of all of this is that this only becomes an issue when you need to send the camera in for the warranty work.
>From the Pentax site: "Gray Market Pentax Products: There has been a lot of press lately cautioning consumers about the dangers of purchasing so called "gray market" products. In an effort to keep Pentax customers protected against this, our medium format bodies, lenses and accessory product boxes have a hologram P designation on them. This designation assures that the product is covered by the Pentax United States warranty. Since gray market products do not carry a United States warranty, when warranty repair work is necessary, the product must be sent to the Pentax service center in the appropriate country of origin. Only U.S. warranties are honored by the Pentax Service Center." So the challenge with grey market, assuming that Pentax sticks to the requirement to only honor USA warranties, is trying to guess what country your camera came from so that you could then send it there for repair. I've never needed a repair on any camera I've ever owned, much less my other Pentax (PZ-1P), so I've never tested any of this. Dan Kirsch Audun Jensen wrote: Doesn't all Pentax equipment come with one year international warranty right from the factory? At least it does over here. It doesn't matter where you buy it in the world; US, UK, Hong Kong, Japan; every Pentax repair facility world-wide is obliged to repair the item within the warranty period. Or is the US somehow excepted from this rule? P�l Dan wrote: >Related to my 645NII...being that this is a brand new camera, I'm truly hoping >that I won't need to be sending it off for repairs any time soon. With >that in >mind, as long as it doesn't fail in the first year of the warranty coverage I >suppose that what I'd be worried about is that Pentax would be willing to work >on it at all. Their web site seems to indicate that if it's out of >warranty or >non-USA warranty that they'll give you a quote (of course, that could be a >painful quote if they want to make up for it be grey market). > >If I can actually reach a service rep at Pentax I'm hoping that they would be >able to tell from the serial number, but until I get to that I'm stuck on >hold, >not wanting to load film in the camera in case I want to return it. > >But I'm glad to know that you've bought at least some things without the "P". >Well, not glad, but maybe it makes me feel better. - 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 .
