On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote: > It's difficult for me to conclude anything except that Pentax > just does not have the capacity to produce anything more advanced. > All the buyer gets is a few tweaks. > Baby steps are not adequate in today's technology world. > > They needs a new partner -- someone larger than Ricoh -- who is > interested in making the company into something great. > Perhaps Apple or Google will buy the company and run with it right. > > Sincerely, > > Collin Brendemuehl
Such conclusions are premature; the product we saw so far (from October 2011) are "Pentax-Hoya" projects. There simply wasn't enough time (less than a year, including analyzing the business and formulating a plan) to build a "true" Pentax Ricoh camera. What they could do was to finish products already in pipeline, including ones frozen by Hoya (the DA 560mm for example). Please be patient, next year we should see more interesting stuff. I also strongly believe that either Apple or Google would kill Pentax; photography and gadgets/web content are too different for it to work. Don't worry, Ricoh will prove to be a good "master". -- Best regards, Alex Sarbu -- 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.
