On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:58 -0500, Dick Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As little as a year ago one could go into any discount electronic store and > purchase a Pentax 35mm compact or digital camera. Today, at least in the > upper mid-west, there are no such Pentax cameras to be found. You cannot > find a Pentax camera of any kind in Best Buy, Sams, Walmart or Target in my > region. Canon, Nikon, Konica/Minolta, Olympus, Fuji etc film and digital > cameras are stocked in these stores, but not our favorite brand. I would > assume that quite a few people purchase their compact film and digital > cameras in stores such as these. To find that Pentax is fast becoming a > non-player in these retail outlets has to be concerning. Along with that, > I haven't seen a Pentax aid on TV or in print in well over a year, maybe > longer. What in the world is USA Pentax doing to promote and sell the > brand? I also noted that on the new USA Pentax website that the MZ-S is no > longer offered. Three film slr's were listed, the ist, ZX-m, and > XZ-60. It's a shame that the MZ-S couldn't be made availabe for a little > longer. >
On the weekend, I posted (I have no idea if it made it to the list or not, because I didn't get a copy of it back in my Pentax Folder), mentioning that in Canada, the following has been noted by your faithful servant: 1) Large ads for Pentax Optios on the side of Toronto city buses, 2) A Pentax Optio giveaway at the end of a Canadian Football League nation-wide telecast, including a "Pentax" banner across the bottom of the TV screen for several minutes. 3) Several large Pentax Optio billboards in downtown Toronto, 4) A *istD kit (with two zooms) for the annual photo competition first prize in Canada's largest photo magazine (Photo Life), 5) I saw the end of an Optio ad on the Outdoor Life Network last weekend, and I didn't mention it yesterday, but: 6) This weekend, I saw the very end of a ad for Pentax Optio MX on a local broadcast channel (CKVR in Barrie, for anyone who might be local, and care about such things). Unlike our southern neighbours, it seems that there has been a recent splash of Pentaxian PR here in the Great White North, and it's ~very~ nice to see! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
