Originally posted by shutterpuppy Wheatfield,
Must be nice to have a dealer that carries Pentax,even in a big city like Dallas,it's even tough to find accessories
Maybe the K-7 will change the opinion of some that think of Pentax DSLRs as entry-level only.
Dallas is *weird,* anyway. I'm no one to talk, being kind of sun-sensitive, myself, but for such a big city, retail areas look pretty deserted in retail hours, anyway. Never could quite get over the AC-dependence. Awful spooky to see a biggish city with almost nobody *outside.* Seems like that would make a foot-traffic shop a difficult thing to make viable just lately.
I think the 'entry-level only' impression about Pentax is actually all about people defensively-saying that, and maybe if they're lucky not-getting-shown-a K100ds at Ritz so someone can say 'Canon and Nkon are 'pro brands'
(actual cameras notwithstanding.)
They wouldn't buy a truck that way. Or maybe they would. But, hey.
Not just Pentax, as regards Ritz and Wolf and co... they pretty much Starbucked all the local shops and homogenized things, then wondered why after about twenty years of being a Fotomat that sold frames and everything *but* camera stuff in any serious way, ....people forgot what a camera store *was,* never mind wanting to go to theirs.... I went in there this year to just try and check out Tammies and Sigmas, and I was like, 'Do you have *anything for anything* faster than a kit lens?'
They did not, actually. For any brand.
That's more about what befell retail than anything about Pentax, though.