Thanks for that informative report! I definitely think that their North American marketing needs some serious help. No. 3 camera maker is ambitious, but it starts with superb products that cover a wide range of markets. I think that their Q, 645D, and APS-C cameras are all currently superb. Hope they can hit another one out of the park with the full frame (even if I don't currently see myself being in the market for one myself - I am positioning myself with full frame lenses).
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
