While i sit in my room recovering from my surgery i keep myself busy by working on my memoir book, walking and searching Henry's camera site for lenses and bodies. It is becoming increasingly hard to be a Pentax shooter in Ontario these days. Camera bodies are readily available but need to be shipped in to the local franchise to view, as are lenses. but to a lesser degree. Many lenses are not offered, those that are, especially Sigma and Tamron are special order, sales final no returns your stuck with it. Even the well thought of 70-300 and 55-300 is special order.
I mention this because my beloved Sigma 17-70 needs repair again. Its behaving like the Pentax 17-70 's i tried slow focus or not at all. It was repaired and worked fine for 6 months then it started to focus ok, then slow then stop, then back to ok again. Its going in next week. I have been looking for a replacement should it not be repairable, and as i say these lenses are now special order take it or leave it. I have found a few on Amazon Canada but that requires it to be shipped and then the WD would have a fit sit. I;m thinking if more lenses fall to the way side a side ways move to my Nikon a would work, lenses readily available or continue with Fuji purchases. Tough life north of the 49th i say. :-) Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
