Originally posted by RockvilleBob That is the one I have, works fine for me.
Mestos is MIA. If you go to their site and put any of the Pentax products in your cart you will not be able to check out. They will not return any emails or queries, or at least that's been peoples experience so far. As far as anyone knows Mad for Camera was the only outlet for Mestos products.
It looks like it maybe their storebrand but regardless if anyone can get an answer from them that would be awesome.
While a few users of claimed the brackets by Markins etc. worked for them, those are not in fact custom brackets they are universal buy plates none of which of ever worked well for me personally.
So as far as I know and I've scoured the Internet, the only outlet for custom plates is RSS and they won't be around much longer for Pentax.
It's funny. I know I have whined and I have bitched about Pentax and Ricoh and Hoya etc. About their lack of professional features: tethering, disabeling of flash at high speeds, and other various unnecessary irritants. But I'm still around. Cranky and occasionally angry, but around. Because what you get is still a very high value feature set, even though the missing features (it's just absurd that they're missing because they're such easy things to implement).
It's like Pentax does the hard stuff and then they fail on the easy stuff. it frustrates me to no end. But if they change the bodies again and I can't get plates, that is going to be THE dealbreaker for me. I cannot even consider or comprehend owning a camera without a custom dovetail plate.
I don't want to switch to Canon or Nikon. I want Pentax to make it so I don't have to.
I'm not sure what they can do about the plates issue. Accessories are a chicken and egg thing obviously. But Pentax needs to engage the manufacturers and encourage them, help them, do whatever they need to do to make these accessories available.
If they are indeed coming out with a full frame camera, then they intend to go pro so to speak. And they need to step up their game with accessory manufacturers. This includes stuff like making the APIs and communication protocols available so somebody can write a tethering program for the newest cameras. (I knew I'd get tethering in there somehow)
It seems like accessory manufactures must feel the way Pentax customers feel a lot of the time, ignored.
I've looked into switching a couple times. The amount of money I would have to pay to Nikon or Canon to get the features I missing plus the features I already have is considerable. A great example is I love that I can pop any lens on my camera and it's instantly stabilized. They pretty much put all the features they have on every camera.
So basically that leaves me the choice of encouraging Rico and Pentax to fix the stuff I feel is broken and I think the only way I can do that is by being one of the squeaky wheels.