Hey, I knew you were kidding. But I'm speaking from experience. I've
worked for companies who've made that change. Gone from product
companies and changed to marketing companies. The first thing to go is
respect for their customers, (after the loss of large numbers of
employees, first in production, then R&D). Pentax is on that road. I'm
not going to say that they didn't need to do something like that to
survive. I think it's more sad than anything else. It's the end of an
era.
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
>On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:57 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
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>
>
>>It was sold as the new top of the line,
>>
>>
>
>Bullshit. It was sold as the only film camera still made by Pentax.
>It was not sold as the pro-grade F5 competitor. Just because it was
>the only film camera they made anymore, that doesn't make a pro-level
>or "top of the line" camera, even if semantically it is.
>
>
>
>>I have no doubt that
>>Pentax will change sensors as soon as it makes economic sense to do so.
>>If a 1.3 crop or full frame 35mm sensor is released next week with a
>>price/quality ratio that makes economic sense. Don't doubt that those
>>DA lenses will be suddenly obsolete.
>>
>>
>
>...because they no longer fully support 30 year old lenses, though they
>offer partial support. Uh, sure, I follow you there -- they took 30
>years to do it the first time around, but this time they're going to do
>it right away because I HATE THEM, THAT'S WHY!! I DON'T NEED ANY
>REASON BEYOND MY IRRATIONAL HATE!! LOOK AT ME, I'M P.J. ALLING!! I
>MAKE NO SENSE BUT BOY DO I EVER HATE PENTAX!!
>
>I'm joking -- I don't think you really hate them. But seriously,
>that's all I get from your posts. Why do you really think they're
>going to do this?
>
>-Aaron
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