Well its official! I will be going down to Focus on Monday 26th, its a pity Pentax wont be there but i'm sure it'll be worth the trip, will definately pay a visit to the Pentax User stand.

If anyone else is going down on Monday watch out for me, I'll be the one with the hat (unless I leave it in the car)

DOH!!!!!

I followed a link for LAST years EX

Just having a senile moment

Sorry.

Why are some of you going on SUNDAY? the dates I have suggest the EX runs monday to friday, 26th feb to 1st March

Or have I got it wrong?

Break a leg Spirit..... not your K10D.

That might not be a bad idea, give a few of us the chance to put faces to names.

Not sure when I'm going down yet, but I'll let you all know so you can go on different days LOL

Mine dropped through the letterbox this morning.

Thanks to all contributors for an excelent edition, but special thanks to Matt, I didn't realise the AF360FGZ could be used as a slave to ANY camera with a pop up flash, took me a while to find how to set it to slave 2 (then had a sudden sense of deja-vue when I realised I had read it when I first got the flash) I really must read manuals thoroughly and not skip the bits that dont apply to me at the time!

Just been reading another post from new member "petekd"
Pete relates his story of how he came to own the K10D, and he does specifically say that Jessops staff advised him against Pentax in favour of Nikon.
I dont know about you lot but to me this seems to be getting beyond a joke. I dont think I will be giving Jessops anymore of my business, I dont suppose it will bankrupt them or even affect their profits in the slightest, but it will make ME feel a lot better.

Maybe its time for Pentax users ourselves to do something about this?

Next we want a Pentax lens or accessory we just walk into our local camera store and ask them for a price, when they say "Oh we dont stock it but we can get it" we just answer, "Oh sorry mate I need it for tomorrow, I'll just ask *insert your usual mail order supplier* to send me one next day delivery"

Alternatively anyone wanting a K10D should take their Pentax lenses along, when the store try and sell them a Canon or Nikon maybe they should let them go on and on until they think they have a sale, thats when you produce your Pentax lenses and act dumb...."can I just try these on it first?"

Until its driven home to these people they will never realise how much business they lose to mail order because of their biased attitudes and stocking preferances.

With the current (general) apathy towards Pentax from certain dealers it could be anyone, but you have to remember that an awful lot of retail staff are little more than sheep, they are sent on the companys training courses, brainwashed with the company policies etc etc, so what can you expect from them when more senior and more "experienced" members of staff tell them a product is rubbish.....BAAA! BAAA!

Sadly even management cant run a business to save their skins, a bad comment from a well know jewellers chain several years ago proves that!

To be fair there are some excelent retail sales staff out there, the ones who really know their stuff and who are trained to think for themselves.

Hmmm!

This sounds like a shop full of assistants who are all Canon users, all frightened their precious Canons are going to be upstaged.

The only other possible explanation is they dont have a clue what they are talking about and if thats the case I wouldnt trust them to sell a Kodak Instamatic, let alone a state of the art DSLR.

Dont bother going back (and please give us a hint who it was)