Toralf Lund wrote:
Dario Bonazza wrote:
Most Pentax lenses are made by the Pentax plant in Vietnam (aka Nguyen
:-)
My MZ-5n has a label saying "Assembled in Philippines". Do Pentax still
produce equipment there?
Dario
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Bill Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been told that Pentax flash units are made by Sunpak.
The DA 18-55 mm is labelled "Assembled in Vietnam".
Ralf
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Yes, they do have a factory there, in the Philippines. I don't know
what city it's in though. My wife knows of it; I'll have to ask her
when she gets home from work (she was born in the Philippines).
I was in the Philippines recently. While in Manila I visited a large
camera and electronics super-mall. I found some Pentax product there,
including the *ist-DS and a few lenses. I was hoping to find that there
would be some good pricing, but wasn't so lucky; everything seemed to
translate to roughly equal value in US Dollars as compared to simply
buying in the USA. I found approximately the same to be true in Hong
Kong. It seems that Pentax doesn't really dump product in one market
while gouging another market; the pricing is fairly uniform, at least
from what I saw in HK and the Philippines. Maybe others who travel more
frequently than I know differently, and if they do, I'm sure I'll here
it here first. *grin*
Dave
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