Originally posted by Transit Bloody thing is only a grand, maybe I should flog off the DA14 and get one
I invited him via comment on
his blog
looks like he's got pentaxitis rather badly
"
…And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
And I seem to find the happiness I seek,
When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek.
So sang Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers in the 1935 movie Top Hat. He was singing to, and about, Ginger and not about his Pentax digital SLR camera. However these words come close to describing my relationship with my camera right now. "
Pete
Call me sentimental, but I do love a good camera at my cheek!
Hello all and thanks for inviting me!
You say above it's a $1000 lens. Well, you'd be right if you're crazy enough to pay local prices. But in my research I found New Zealand to be the most expensive place to buy by a wide, wide margin.
Now if you've read my blog post you will know I didn't pay a cent for mine, but those dearest to me paid around half that price. I'm not going to go and re-do all my research, but from memory, it could be had cheapest in the US and next cheapest in the UK! Yes, the famously expensive UK. Singapore came somewhere in the middle, but a lot closer to the bottom end than the rip-off price here.
Now I happen to have a sister who lives not far from the shop and she happened to be flying back here at about the right time, but at today's exchange rates, it's about NZD$500
here.