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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
10-14-2013, 06:56 AM
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I crossed into Burma other week. There's a small market right at the border. In that market I saw three Pentax cameras: a white K01, a K30, and another camera I couldn't identify (it had a top LCD, so maybe it was a K5?).
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-16-2013, 12:11 AM
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I am currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand, doing basically nothing for the next few months.
Last night I was at the Sunday market.
I saw THREE people shooting Pentax. They weren't in a group either.
This is on top of another person I saw last week shooting with a Pentax.
This is despite the fact that Pentax has nearly zero presence here. Pantip mall is stacked with lots of camera stores, none of them sell any Pentax gear. In the Airport Plaza mall, there is a whole section of one floor dedicated to camera stores, and I only saw one store that had a single Pentax body for sale. There is only one store I've seen so far in the old city that sells Pentax gear, and it's only for Q lenses and bodies.
I've seen more people shooting Pentax here in less than a month than I've seen in Vancouver ever.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-21-2012, 01:02 PM
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I was bumming around downtown Vancouver yesterday when I came across a little camera store tucked away in one of the smaller malls underneath a big hotel. The store had a camera bag on sale that I was interested in, so I spent some time trying it out. One of the workers came up to me, and we chatted for a bit. When I pulled out my K30 from my messenger bag to see how it fit in the camera bag, he saw it and said he was a fellow Pentax shooter! His main setup was a Pentax K-r, with a Tamron 18-250 for his lens (although he dropped the lens at some point and now it's only a Tamron 100-250 lens :p ).
We had a good chat about Pentax stuff. He showed me some of the Pentax accessories they had tucked away. I ended up getting a remote cable shutter release too. When I left, he gave me his business card and we shook hands. Upon checking the receipt when I got home, I was surprised to see that he had given me a further discount on the bag I bought, even though it was already on sale. I will attribute that to the "Pentax Connection". :)
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