> From: Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu <[email protected]> > The declaration about wanting to double the sales in 2013 appeared in > a Japanese interview, as did the full frame talk. The roadmaps are > available on Pentax Japan's website, and being lens roadmaps they > don't include any camera. Every little piece of information available > shows they are not planning to "miss the boat"; I'm sure that will be > confirmed next year.
Respectfully, practically every company would want to see sales double next year. I'd like to find I had a long lost uncle who left me heir to his multi-million dollar estate. What have they done at the end of this year so that we might reasonably expect those declarations to come to fruition next year? A roadmap, much like one used when driving a vehicle shows where you can go, possibly wish to go, but doesn't mean you've gone there. I would agree they're not planning to miss the boat. > I'm sure that, in Japan, the market for a Pentax FF would be much > smaller (talking about units here) than for the Q. That's not an > argument against the FF, though. Is that Pentax's largest market, though, Japan? I'm asking because Pentax looks like they want to compete on the global stage. Understood on FF. >> >>> Which Pentax was unable to deliver (a full frame system, I presume)? >>> The old Pentax Corporation, bought out by Hoya? Pentax, as a Hoya >>> division? Or the 14 months old Pentax Ricoh? >> > But how could the actual Pentax Ricoh be blamed because Hoya Pentax > didn't had the funds to make a full frame product line? Or because > Pentax Corporation's main shareholder was Sparx, who wanted to sell? > Or for whatever caused Samsung's unwillingness to do more? > I'll say again: the current Pentax Ricoh is a 14 months newborn; there > simply wasn't enough time for them to "deliver". I'm not assessing blame, I'm looking at 'as-is' state. Much like you can't blame Germans today for the holocaust or Americans born well after WWII for nuking Japan, the effects of those actions persist. I know those are exaggerated comparisons, but you get the point. The entity known as Pentax Ricoh was not in the position to develop a 24 MP APS-C body or a FF body even though sensors are available for use. >> >> Even at this date, it's hard to find a Pentax on display in any major >> retail outlet (i.e. Big Boxes, warehouse clubs, or department stores) >> in the US, or advertising of any kind. Driving through Hartford, CT >> last week I saw a huge billboard advertising the Canon T4i. > The situation in US seems particularly bad, I'll give you that. I've probably beat this around as much as I care to. :) If Pentax does come out with some high demand products it would be good for both Pentax and its customers and I'd applaud them. Tom C. -- 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.
