What kills me is that their facebook avatar is now just the ricoh logo. They should have made pentax its own subsidiary like all the smart companies do. Its like ricoh cares nothing about the rich heritage that pentax has. Its just some disposable name now? Its true the Asahi Optical Company ceased to exist when hoya bought them. That was always the real pentax, so that is long gone, but the core of the organization seemed to persist under hoya until they chopped away at their talent. Pentax and Asahi is truly no more now. Hope you all like your future Pentax branded cameras! Who's willing to bet that ricoh comes up with a full frame mirrorless solution with a new mount and sells it as a ricoh camera? Think the 645 has a future? But please ricoh, more colors and new models with last year's technology! They better have some big things to announce soon or the few remaining hopeful will likely just move on. Its pretty obvious they don't want to cater to the pentax fanboys or faithful at all and seem intent in focusing their efforts on toy cameras. Its like the GR. Amazing street camera right? Well, why can't they take that base and make a rangefinder styled unit with an EVF ala XE-1, GX-7, etc? no tilting screen on the GR? really? no waist level shooting? which would be huge for you know, a street camera. my bet is that the 645 is abandoned with the current model or after a sucessor. The K-3 (24mp APS-C) is a warmed over k-5 body redesign with more curves and 11 point AF still (which I am actually fine with, just more accuracy damnit!), No wifi, nothing innovative. Just a new processing engine and sony chip. I also predict a new full frame mirrorless with a new mount that somehow supports k-mount in a legacy mode, through adapters most likely. They bridged the gap before this way with m39-m42-kmount. why not now? Even m42 lenses would be adaptable. If they make the flange difference small enough, you could adapt anything and use all sorts of lenses with their intended image circle. You give up the OVF though... Personally I think it would be suicide for pentax...I mean ricoh.....to just release a 24MP full frame DSLR. Maybe if they did so in a disruptive way, like say price it at $1500. But I don't thin thats going to happen. If it does I will eat my hat. There you heard it. With the NEX full frame almost certainly happening, sony has created a product that is suddenly desirable because it will easily adapt nearly any 35mm lens ever made. Landscape shooters will absolutely love it since they work in live view 90% of the time anyways. I'm sad that pentax is gone from what I can tell. I do want ricoh to survive and succeed and continue to produce cameras with pentax DNA and hopefully still call them pentax. I think pentax has great ergonomics and they make very well thought out cameras. Its really hard to find faults with my k-5 and k-7s. Other than autofocus maybe. But hey at least you can adjust that. Sorry for the rant. I really don't know how warm and fuzzy seeing Ricoh plastered all over the facebook page made me feel. It felt more like losing a friend. Too bad Fuji gave up on DSLRs. I would hate to have to chose between Canikon and Sony or just Canikon.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:15 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/12/2013 7:52 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> from the domain names and web sites and social media of the formerly >> Pentax-RIcoh Imaging (as expected). Still kind of a shock to see it >> for real. >> >> >> http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/08/12/pentax-websites-social-networking-properties-switch-to-ricoh-branding >> >> It will remain on the products themselves, "future >> interchangeable-lens cameras and binoculars". >> >> >> > > I think that sux. > > > -- > 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.
