Originally posted by Kevriano I need to look for one of these at those prices.
I typically try for UK auctions that end during normal day-time working hours (9am to 5:30pm), as there are fewer people around to bid on them, and there's a better chance of getting them at or close to the starting price. I either bid manually in the last 10 - 15 seconds, or else I use AuctionStealer to place proxy bids.
On this GX10, there was just one other bidder and they obviously didn't want to pay more than the starting price (or didn't react quickly enough when my bid went in at 10 seconds to the auction end
).
A few of my best-value Soviet lens finds were snagged this same way
Originally posted by kadajawi Good lord... 1370! That's like a day of shooting... the Panasonic is at nearly 18k now in 6 weeks.
Ha ha
I'm not quite as active as you, but I might still get through a couple of hundred in a busy day. Maybe twice that with moving subjects. So... at worst, this GX10 has only had a few days of my typical use in its life
Originally posted by kadajawi Anyway, the K10d was one hell of a camera. Congrats. What are you going to do with it, since you already have one...?
Thank you
Well, the reason I bought it is so that I have a backup for if and when my first GX10 dies. I like the camera so much that I would hate to lose it, and getting it repaired just wouldn't be economically viable. So, this is kind of an insurance policy. It'll most likely sit on a shelf for now until it's needed (terrible, I know).
EDIT: It might occasionally get pressed into service alongside GX10 #1 but with a different lens fitted NEWS FLASH: Luck is on my side this week, it seems... hot on the heels of this GX10, I found an SBG-D1V battery grip for sale in Germany, and bought it just a few moments ago. The Pentax K10D battery grip doesn't fit the GX10 without significant modification, as the body mouldings are slightly different, and no third party grips were ever available for the GX10. The SBG-D1V has become a rare thing, and something I've been looking for these last few months. The example I've bought was listed as "like new", and the photos seem to support that