From: "P.J. Alling"
When Pentax was first acquired by Ricoh, I read on someone's photography blog that Ricoh, wanted a prestige name on a prestige product, but unfortunately between Ricoh and Pentax they thought that Ricoh was the prestige name. Pentax/Ricoh imaging was just an interim name until the merger of assets was complete. Will they rebrand the SLR line as Ricoh, who knows but if they didn't intend to continue making SLR's Ricoh could have killed the K-50 and K-500. They didn't so we'll just have to wait and see.
I don't really care if the name on the front of the camera or the lenses is Pentax or Ricoh, as long as my K-mount lenses still work & we don't go back to the days of that problem where the lenses got stuck & you couldn't get them to come off. Sony bought Minolta & the name went away. But, old Minolta lenses are still compatible with Sony's Minolta lens mount (AFAIK) & you still have to use an adapter to mount a hot-shoe flash on that funky proprietary mount Minolta had. So, I don't think this is the end of the world ... YET. -- 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.
