John (and Walt too), This forum is my substitute for holding a new Pentax in my hands. I've bought everything mail order, sight unseen. That's a *ist DS, K-10, K-20, K-7, K-5 & K-5IIs. Once you are locked in by the investment in lenses, you're locked in. You go for the best price you can. And that's mail-order, even 5 years ago when the *ist D was in local camera shops.
You're a hobbyist, not a pro. What do you NEED to do with that new camera that you can't do right now? No seriously, how is your current camera/lens holding you back! Stop falling for all the marketing hype and just shoot some pictures. Photography is a hard business to make money in. The successful ones I've seen are better salesmen than photographers. So just get over it...or wait for Godfrey's 'After the World's End Sale Days'. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:27 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > I went over to Costco this afternoon to buy my 2013 supply of toilet > tissue. > > They had a big mound of Nikon D600 kits (two lenses - 24-85 & 70-300 + > some wireless plugin device) that caught my eye. > > I browsed around a bit & there were other Nikons DSLRs, bridge cameras > (those things that look like a DSLR, but don't have interchangeable > lenses) & point 'n shoots. > > Ditto for Canon & Sony. > > It was pretty obvious Costco was selling them. A guy was restocking one > the mounds of the Canon DSLR kits while I was there. > > No Pentax K-01, K-5 (any flavor), K-30 or WG-1 kits in the store. > Nothing to suggest Pentax even exists anymore, much less that Costco > actually sells them. > > I just don't understand how Pentax can expect to attract new users > without cameras in the stores to attract buyers to the Pentax brand. > > I was really tempted by the D600 kit. American Express upped my credit > limit last month. The only thing that really held me back was my > determination not to make ANY major purchase before 2013. Plus I really > do want to wait & see if Pentax will introduce a camera I want to buy. > > I waited a long time for Pentax to finally introduce the *ist-D. I can > probably wait a bit longer to see if they will ever introduce another > camera I want to buy. > > I just don't know if I'm going to live that long. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
