holiday, hot and humid. surf the net for a dslr.... was eyeing between the canon d550kit and nikon d1000kit..... went into amazon to look at the reviews. both had good and bad reviews. but the bad ones, somehow put him down. then some reviewer mention pentax k-x that he owned, and both the c/n which is supposed to be in a class higher than the k-x(from the point of price range), loose out in many aspects, in features, in photo quality(or IQ=image quality), in low-light sensitivity...... looked up on the k-x reviews in amazon. and also in hardwarezone, all were giving good reviews except a couple of bad ones which blames not on the features per se, but unluckily they got a defective camera.
went hunting for the camera in amk..... big shops like 'court', 'harvey', even 'best' do not sell pentax, because compared to c, n and even o(olympus), p gives thinner margin to the sellers. so even those that sell p, would prefer you to buy c or n..... they would give you tons of reason for doing so. found the camera in the hub, the k-x with 18-55mm lens cost 790, sans accessories.
from online, it should be around us$500, ie about s$700, so 790 is a bit ex.
went orchard.... lucky plaza - 890, 980.... and most don't carry the brand, or the model. went to some shops near the istana. more realistic price, like 790 but not incl 7% gst..... went funan.... alan photo gave the most competitive price, 790(incl gst and 8gb sd card), but must pay CASH!
no cash, no talk.... left the place high and dry.
was it a sudden urge..... no so.... have been thinking about it for sometime..... but did not have much knowledge about dslr to make some informed decision, until today....
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