Originally posted by trog100
richdog.. u are talking mostly to US based dudes.. u live in the UK..
pentax seems to favour the US market and hand out rebates and such.. the price difference between pentax glass and sigma or tamron glass is far less than it is in the UK..
i came close to buying either the tamron 90mm macro or the sigma 105mm macro.. the ludicrous nearly 900 US dollar UK price of the pentax 100mm macro puts it totally out of the question..
sigma or tamon roughly £280-ish.. pentax 100mm £450-ish..
we live in a dfferent world richdog.. we should not be influenced too much by the much different dominant american viewpoint..
and please my comments are simply about life on the other side of the pond.. i am not being anti pentax.. simply realistic..
the pentax glass just dosnt justify the UK price premium in most cases.. in the US its different..
trog
ps.. its used to be two countries seperated by a common language.. now its seems to be two countries seperated by different pirces.. he he he
Heh yeah i'm well aware of the US > UK 1:1 magic conversion ratio mate... i've been a computer hardware enthusiast for years and there is nowhere where the price-gap is more apparent and horrendous than in that field.
The tamron 90mm cheapest price in the UK seems to be around £260... so I guess Ebay will save you around £60 and they clearly advertise no VAT to UK, so if you do get charged I would imagine you can claim it back from them.
Regarding the Pentax, the more I read about it the more I see that it's not actually that
great... the tamron seems a much more sensible purchase, although I would like to see the 150mm Sigma.
Tamron it is I guess...