That's kind of the opposite of the local store here. They carry Oly but
not Pentax, because Pentax didn't want to deal with them, now they won't
deal with Pentax. Mainly because they have limited space and already
carry Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and Olympus. The only Pentax they carry
is used film gear, at the start and end of the semester, to sell K1000s
to students and buy them back. At least one local College still teaches
beginning photography using film.
On 6/28/2015 7:27 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I stopped by the camera store today to pick up a lens cap for a flea
market lens I got yesterday. While I was there I was chatting with
one of the salesmen. He said that they could barely move the K-5 and
K-3 bodies, so apart from their K-3 demo they don't have any K-3 or
K-3II in stock. They do, however, sell a lot of the K-S1/2 and K-500
bodies.
He said that while they sell fewer Pentax of any of the other brands,
they also had far fewer problems with them than with other brands.
They had some fuji bodies. He said that they were really a boutique
brand. They're a lot more expensive than comparable. If you just
process the photos in auto mode, the way most people do, you don't see
much difference between them and less expensive options. However, if
you take the time with them, you can get amazing image quality out of
them.
I asked him about the Olympus TG-4. He said that Olympus makes great
stuff, but the company really screwed camera stores over a couple of
times going through rough times (out of business?) and that they are
now pretty much online only, because brick and mortar stores don't
want to get left holding the bag again.
I played a bit with the K-S2. I'm afraid that I just didn't like the
way it felt in my hands. Too little space between the finger grip and
the lens, and the shutter button was awkwardly placed.
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