In SA there are still several "Brick & Mortar" camera stores in the big
cities selling mostly Canon & Nikon but no new Pentax. S/H traded-in
Pentax products become available from time to time. Foto First are the
Pentax distributors in SA through their Online store. They sell Canon,
Nikon & Fuji too. Foto First also has a chain of stores throughout the
country (formerly photo shops) specialising in photo prints, scanning &
photobooks but hardly a camera in store. They are highly patronised by
the growing army of street photographers! However, the faint hearted,
fearful of online transactions, may order cameras through their local
branch. Stores like Game & Makro (Walmart) also sell low range Canon &
Nikon products.
Alan C
On 21-Jan-22 09:37 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jan 21, 2022, at 11:02 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
We still have two "brick & mortar" camera stores here in Raleigh.
Neither one is a Pentax dealer, although one of them tried to make a go of it
in the last decade - I bought both my K-3 and K-1 locally from that store.
I don’t know how many brick and mortar camera stores there are in the Bay Area.
I’ve seen cameras at some of the big box electronics stores, but no Pentax.
Keeble and Shuchat in Palo Alto which had been around for decades, with two
shops across the street from each other went out of business a few years back.
There seems to be a Samy's in SF.
I got my first Pentax because I overheard the guy at San Jose camera talking to
someone else about how he has one and what he likes about it. I was leaning
towards Nikon, he was pushing harder on Canon, but I really hated the feel of
the low end Canon gear. At one point, even Fry’s carried Pentax, now Fry’s is
gone too.
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