[Kunzite]

If you check carefully with local introduced people, you still can find it, with a markup.

Could anyone get me one?

[Mistral75]

If you check carefully with local introduced people, you still can find it, with a markup.

The usual smart guys who buy in quantity to resell and make a profit...

[Zygonyx]

Yes, but there's no other choice.

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Could anyone get me one?

I am just booked to get "the last one" that was available from one of the main pentax shops in Japan...

[reh321]

Yes, but there's no other choice.

there's the choice of not acquiring one - of using the perfectly functional one that came with your camera - or purchasing a replacement for about $5

[Mikesul]

It is clear some of us like the special Pentax commémoratives and some don't. Obviously anyone can use the plastic OEM one. But if one wants (clearly no one needs) the commemorative one, then there are limited choices.

[Zygonyx]

there's the choice of not acquiring one - of using the perfectly functional one that came with your camera - or purchasing a replacement for about $5

My personnal choice is to help Ricoh Imaging continuing for hopefully our, but certainly my personnal pleasure.
This is why i buy anything i can and will use from them.

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By the way, i just got the info that there will be centenary hotshoes for sale in Paris during the special event on 7-9th november 2019.

[Mikesul]

My personnal choice is to help Ricoh Imaging continuing for hopefully our, but certainly my personnal pleasure.
This is why i buy anything i can and will use from them.

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By the way, i just got the info that there will be centenary hotshoes for sale in Paris during the special event on 7-9th november 2019.

So it looks like at least some of the commemorative items will have a wider distribution than just Japan.

[Mistral75]

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[/COLOR]By the way, i just got the info that there will be centenary hotshoes for sale in Paris during the special event on 7-9th november 2019.

interesting, thank you for the tip. Will the hot shoe be the only commemorative item for sale during this event or will there be others?

[Not a Number]

So it looks like at least some of the commemorative items will have a wider distribution than just Japan.

Well the announcement on the Ricoh websites said a limit of 3000 worldwide. So Japan may have gotten the lion's share of the allocation but there are numbers available for other regions. Looks like the other regions won't be able to buy them online.

[monochrome]

I want anything I can get in the US that has the AOCo logo. I would especially enjoy white or black transfers. A size suitable to stick on a car window would be special, but anything will do.

[reh321]

Well the announcement on the Ricoh websites said a limit of 3000 worldwide. So Japan may have gotten the lion's share of the allocation but there are numbers available for other regions. Looks like the other regions won't be able to buy them online.

Not from Ricoh on-line; entirely possible that Japanese merchants will sell a few at places such as eBay. If you really want one, you may have to really work for it by searching and then 'pay through the nose'. Ricoh may have 'guaranteed' the value of these trinkets by keeping supply below demand.

[Zygonyx]

interesting, thank you for the tip. Will the hot shoe be the only commemorative item for sale during this event or will there be others?

I only know for the hotshoe, but there might be more though i doubt this will be photography gear.
My KP J is on its way from where you know ...

[thibs]

AOCo stickers to put on our DSLRs prisms would be nice.

[Mistral75]

AOCo stickers to put on our DSLRs prisms would be nice.

Back to the future?

[Not a Number]

AOCo stickers to put on our DSLRs prisms would be nice.

Those were given away at one of the shows prior to the release of the K-1 mk2. You had to be there.