William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoya seems to have knocked some sense into them > over the past few years.
Like improving the finger painting filters in the K-7's firmware instead of ironing out the most blatant bugs? I'm afraid the opposite is true. I guess we'll have to wait for the first products to be completely developed under Hoya's control to see where Pentax is heading. Mind you, everything "new" we've seen since the take-over has still been developed in the olden days of Pentax. The only signs of Hoya's handwriting I can see so far are digital kindergarden filters in the K-7, the various hello kitty colour schemes the K-x is sold in, a medium-format camera made especially for landscape photographers without a single wide-angle lense in sight, and the destruction of their exemplary service organisation in most parts of Europe. Not much to be proud of, in my book. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
