David Savage wrote: > I also find once you've spent a few dollars with them they'll do you good > deal's to keep you coming back.
I go to the local guys whenever I can, but that usually means for supplies and stuff, not lenses and cameras. None of the places around here stock Pentax other than the very least expensive items. For example, if they have a Pentax lens, it's the 18-55, not the 16-45. They probably don't even have an allocation of K10Ds but I ought to go see if they have K100Ds or K110Ds. Of course they'll order the cameras and lenses for me, but want 25% more than I can get it from B&H or Adorama. On the *ist D that was like US$ 300 when I bought mine. I'd have paid a US$50 or US$ 75 premium, but not US$ 300! They can get things like eye cups and real Pentax lens caps and flash shoe covers cheaper than Pentax will sell them on their web site. And I refuse to buy CF and SD memory from them when they're twice as expensive as CompUseless or RadioTarPaperShack ... which are both more expensive than the local Fry's or Internet ordering. But I go to the local guys for everything that they're "reasonable" about (by my definition) ... developing (not much anymore), camera bags, filters, tripods, heads, and various other widgets. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
