Pal, in north America they are all about the glitz and
glamour, the latest hi tech. I had a hard time finding
a 50mm lens new or used in Toronto, it's next to
impossible to get a decent prime telephoto either. If
it doesn't have a nikon or canon logo on it they
rarely know about it.
--- Pål Audun Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed wrote
There is no MZ-S anywhere in Baltimore - I
called every dealer. I managed to find one in DC
on Tuesday, at the
largest Pentax dealer in the DC area. They had
one. None of the
salespeople had ever even heard of it, and they
could not find it for
about 5 minutes, because it was still in the back
in it's box, as they
had never even opened it to put it on display.
Nobody knew anything
about it. I mounted my 77 to it, and two of the
salespeople looked at
the lens. One said, What the heck is that? They
had never heard of
the limited lenses.
Pretty weird. I'm now in Oslo. I've seen the MZ-S
with battery grip in two
different shops. Note that those are the only shops
I've visited - there
could be more. One of them had all three Limited
lenses on display, the FA*
85/1.4, FA* 400/5.6, FA* 24/2, FA 50/2.8 Macro + a
considerable number of
Pentax consumer zooms. I also noted that the MZ-S at
least looks better
built than anything else except the F5. The Dynax9
and EOS-1v, which stood
on the shelves right beside it looked more
plasticky, in spite of being
metal, and overall cheaper and less well finished
regarding both surface
finish and shutline management (that is the lines
between body panels, and
for the Dynaxx9, the gap between the flash and the
body).
Pål
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