Hi, Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 10:06:41 PM, you wrote:
>> Of course the nice thing about a student buying a K1000 as a >> starter slr is that his/her lenses will fit and be usable on every >> other Pentax 35mm body that they may upgrade to in the future, >> should they decide to stay with Pentax. That can't be said for >> the Big Boys. > That's what I thought once - a good "feeder camera body" for Pentax. I did an evening class once many, many years ago at a photo college. They didn't expect the full-time students to buy cameras at all, they expected them to use the very beaten-up K1000s that were sitting on rows of shelves. When they needed them they signed them out. Presumably the college had, back in the mists of time, got some sort of bulk discount. What this means is that if the course didn't put the students off for life then they had to buy their own cameras when they'd graduated, and so weren't obliged to get a K1000. I've always assumed that this was common practice, at least in the UK. However, one of my local photo dealers told me a year or 2 ago that the colleges here tell students to buy a K1000, and only a K1000. This leads to high prices for them in August and September, and a glut on the market in December when they sell them to buy non-photographic chemicals, food, and the bus fare home for Christmas. Bob
