A Gregory L. Hansen posted this on 26/10/2002 7:08pm and there have been a bunch of follow-ups. I don't know if anyone here posted to it, I'm sure some of you have seen it, but for the benefit of others I pasted it. May check it out? If I'm a total moron and everyone reads that newsgroup, just thump me one. ;-) Do we all think we are #4 or #3?
---------------------------- I was at the local Ritz Camera today to pick up various pieces, like a UV filter for my new lens, hood, cleaning kit, film. I asked for a cap that goes on a Pentax camera without a lens, they didn't have one. I asked for a cap for the rear of a Pentax lens, they didn't have one, although they had some for Canon and Nikon. I asked about extension tubes, and the guy said there are none, nobody makes lenses for Pentax any more. And maybe he was just distracted or having a bad day, but he seemed to say it with the kind of sneer used by a PC fan talking to a Macintosh-using customer. Not a "Sorry, we're out", but a "Nobody makes anything for that any more" with some implication that it's about time that company went away and why aren't you using decent equipment? I knew Pentax wasn't top dog, but I thought number 4 out of the big four wasn't so bad. Is Pentax on the way out, or is the sales guy just a yo-yo? -------------------------------- ****************************************************** Brad W. Dobo, HBA (Eds.) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 16566668
