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From: "Ralf R. Radermacher"
Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
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.
All granted, though I recall the bugs you are talking about relate mostly to
DFS, which might well be a necessity with the sensor in the K7.
I can't speak to the digital filters, I don't use them anyway.
We might need to wait for the 645D to start being delivered before we know
exactly what lenses they have planned for it. I suspect that they got rather
burned when they put the 60-250 on the roadmap and then taking a couple of
years longer to deliver it than they said they would.
I presume that the European service got centralized into a single centre,
much like what happened with the USA?
Some things are just to expensive to keep.
Thise Hello Kitty K-xs are flying off the shelf. Whether or not you like the
concept yourself, it seems to be successful.
Anyway, if Pentax had been doing everything right, they would still be an
independant camera maker.
The fact is, the camera division was losing money before Hoya, enough that
the takeover was necessary for the survival of the company, and last I
heard, it actually made some money for Hoya.
From a business pespective, this is not a bad thing.
William Robb
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