High Dollar perhaps?
I think they should have kept "SMC" and added "HD" to it. Your old
lenses had "SMC" coating and your new lenses have "SMC-HD" coating.
Build the brand on what everybody already knows is one of its strengths,
instead of starting all over.
I get the feeling that's what the K5 II represents. It's an interim
place holder because Ricoh has Pentax starting all over again. I really
think Pentax has gotten behind because of the sale to Hoya and the sale
again to Ricoh. And they're still flailing around trying to figure out
what people will want to buy.
Meanwhile Nikon, Canon, Sony, Panasonic et al have new product out
there, and they're eating Pentax's lunch.
I understand there's not enough of us here at PDML to buy the numbers of
cameras & lenses Pentax needs to sell in order to remain viable, so that
Pentax has to attract new users. But it seems Pentax is trying to
attract those new buyers by "me toing" Nikon, Canon, Sony, Panasonic ...
and I just don't think that's going to work. I don't think Pentax has a
future if they're always going to be a day late & a dollar short in the
market.
One of Pentax's biggest selling points was VALUE - you always got more
for your money. Pentax might be six months behind whatever the latest
gimmick was, but when the product hit the street, it would do it better
and cost you less. I don't see that happening now.
From: "J.C. O'Connell"
A new coating is cool but I agree, calling it hd is questionable. they didnt
even say what hd stands for.
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J.C.O'Connell
hifis...@gate.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Bruce Walker
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Pentax announcements official
I don't think a lens coating replacement for SMC was on anyone's list, was
it?
But why oh why did they call it HD? Is this some marketing dweeb's
clever idea to get people to see HD in more places on the equipment
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