Our local Pentax users group (Pinoy Pentaxians/PIPEN) were invited for a factory tour in Cebu; then was treated to photowalk and then some.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/8204696930/ Noteworthy is that since Ricoh took over, Pentax has been aggressive in marketing (at least here in the Philippines AFAIK); they sponsored a cosplay event a month or so ago, the just concluded factory tour & photowalk and is linking up with PIPEN for more activities. They said they could not do that back during the Hoya days because simply Hoya did not care...but I think we know that already. Bong -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- 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.

