At b&h the price of a black camera with grip was approximately the same as the silver kit, so I went black.
Paul via phone > On Oct 31, 2013, at 12:23 AM, "Peter Loveday" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In Oz, the silver 'kit' was A$200 more, which is a bargain for the grip and a > spare battery. > > There's no kit available with the black version including grip though, so I > can't really compare pricing there. > > Still, I ordered the black one. I have plenty of D-LI90s.. I'll probably pay > more than $200 for the grip - but I just couldn't bring myself to buy the > ugly silver monstrosity version :) > > - Peter > > > -----Original Message----- From: John Francis > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:09 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: My K3..... > >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:20:02PM -0600, Bill wrote: >> On 30/10/2013 1:08 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >Congrats on the K-3 and getting the limited for the same price as the >> >"plain chocolate" version, Bill! >> > >> >> >> Honestly, I thought about telling him to forget it, just get me a >> black one, but it seems foolish to give up the thrown in battery and >> grip because I don't like the silver cosmetics. I took a bath on my >> silver Limited lenses because I wanted black ones once they became >> available. >> >> bill > > It sounds to me as though one of you is getting a bit confused. > > AFAIK the Silver K-3 kit (with the matching grip and an extra battery) > costs round about the same as the same package in black, not the same > as a black K-3 'body only'. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.

