Pentax put a notice out some time ago about jim malcolm wanting to interview pentaxians. I wrote them a long letter and they called me last week. We didn't talk too much about anything concrete. It was more casual than I ever expected. Jim seems like a very nice guy and he seemed very enthusiastic about taking over north america. I personally feel that the ricoh aquisition will pay off in spades with time to us pentaxians. He did confirm, but was otherwise tight lipped on full frame. His comment "well we let the cat out of the bag..."
He loved the mx-1 and wanted to brass his copy up lol. He also confirmed that the Q indeed lacks a low pass AA filter. He felt that it was marketed to the wrong crowd here, but in japan it is currently doing very well. Also we talked about post processing a lot and he talked about how capture one doesn't support the 645 due to it being a phase one product. He also convinced me to give phase one a try. I downloaded the trial, but spending another 300 on software is probably not the best use of my money at the moment I must admit. I did like what I saw though. He told me to stay in touch and I have his assistants email address at pentax. All in all it was a nice chat and I was quite a bit star struck and speechless unfortunately. I did hammer out my main points in my letter (more primes...bring full frame...etc) which I'm pretty sure he read. He seemed to like my work too. Who knows...maybe I can get into the pentax gallery online one day..... :) I did repeatedly state that marketing in north america needs vastly expanded upon. He said that their goal is to become the #3 camera maker in the world. To that end I say, best of luck and its going to be an interesting ride either way. Looking forward to the future of pentax in this small corner! -- 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.
