As you say, they were the pro shop, so they dealt with the pros. As some long-time PDMLers will know, the 250-600 came from a pro NASCAR photographer who was (reluctantly) changing brands to Nikon at the instigation of his editor, who was asking for digital images (this was back when the D1 was the new camera in the Nikon lineup). It's an ideal motosports lens, but there was absolutely no way that I could consider spending the $7500-$8000 street price ($11000 list) on a lens I'd only use occasionally. Even the second-hand price was enough to make me pause, although not for more than a minute ... That was the first time I'd ever seen that lens available used. Since then I believe another one has showed up, but that still only makes the used availability about one every decade or so.
Some of the other PDMLers have had a brief chance to play with the lens, too. In fact I'm wondering if there's a way to widen the circle; I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the lens has pretty much stayed in its case for the last couple of years. On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:50:15AM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > John, > Yes, I got some of my rarer glass there at decent prices. > They seemed to have a good set of sources. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:08 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:38:20PM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > >> Larry, > >> I haven't been to Biggs in 15 years when I was on a business trips to > >> Charlotte. > >> Charlotte Camera was the pro shop in the suburbs and Biggs was the old > >> in-town store. > > . . . > >> Sadly, Charlotte Camera closed. > >> Regards, ?Bob S. > > > > I remember Charlotte Camera fondly ... > > They're the people who (briefly) had a used FA* 250-600 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
